Identity, Difference and Otherness. 
The Concepts of "People,""Indigenous people" and "Minority" in International Law.

Makkonen, Timo
Erik Castrén Institute Research Reports 7/2000
Forum Iuris, Helsinki 2000.

The study is a brilliant conceptual analysis of the meaning of terms such as "race". "ethnicity", "people" and other similar words in the political discourse of late modern international and human rights law. What is the concrete meaning of the "right of self-determination"? What types qualify as "minorities" under the various legal instruments ­ and which criteria go to delimit a "minority" this way instead of that way? What is an "indigenous people"? With whom lies the power to determine this? These are the types of issues addressed in this volume.