The national and international faces of federalism
Self-determination of peoples as United Nations principle : historical roots and contemporary international law/municipal (constitutional) law antinomies
Emergence of states in classical international law
The United Nations Charter and admission of states, and also their exclusion
The United Nations Charter principle of territorial integrity of states : the Uti Possidetis Doctrine as element in state succession
Federalism and constitutional pluralism as self-determination options for plural-ethnic States : the different faces of federalism in comparative constitutional law
Law and politics and the dialectical unfolding of the self-determination principle
Excursus - failed states : the trial-and-error of contemporary exercises in constitution-making and nation-building.