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1. Introduction (p. 2)

2. Steven Grosby, Nationality and constructivism (pp. 2-13)

3. Joep Leerssen, The baton and the frame: or, tradition and recollection (pp. 13-23)

4. Caspar Hirschi, Duck or quack? On the lack of scholarly soundness and decorum in Joep Leerssens review (pp. 24-35)

5. Joep Leerssen, Response to Caspar Hirschi (pp. 35-48)

Argues that the collapse resulted from a systemic crisis involving the Communist Party's inability to preserve its monopoly on power in the face of mounting social and economic pressures, and also from an imperial crisis in which the system proved unable to control or accommodate ethnic nationalism as articulated by minority political elites. Evolution of "Leninist Nationality Policy" during the Soviet Era.

Discusses subject matter and geographic confines of so-called "postcommunist studies" as well as its original roots in "Sovietology"; highlights of the discipline include democratization, varieties of transition to capitalist economies, and nationality and identity studies. Covers 27 countries in Europe and Asia that have exited communism with more or less success, and six undergoing "self-transcendence" beyond communism.

478Aliens — Refugees — Refugee status — Geneva Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, 1951, and Protocol, 1967 — Illegal immigrant — Deportation proceedings — Request for political asylum — Whether specific reason to fear persecution — Requirements of "clear probability" of persecution and "well-founded fear" of persecution — Immigration and Nationality Act 1952 — Refugee Act 1980 — The law of the United States

In 1990, 36 governorships, 6,257 other state offices, 34 Senate seats, and every seat in the U.S. House of Representatives are up for election. The officials who are up for election will be making decisions critical to the child care, health, child welfare, education, and safety of children in every state and nationality. No other decisions are more important to the American future.

Nationality — Passport — Decision to refuse passport to applicant resident abroad — Applicant wanted for criminal offence — Legal basis for decision — Royal prerogative — Whether decision subject to judicial reviewRelationship of international law and municipal law — Conduct of foreign relations — Judicial review of decisions in field of foreign relations — Decision to refuse passport distinguished from decisions regarding foreign policy — The law of England

559Jurisdiction — Personal — Crimes committed by nationals abroad — Theft — Whether courts of State of defendant's nationality have jurisdiction — Condition of double criminality — Law of country of commission of offence only allowing punishment by private prosecution — Time limit for instituting proceedings in country of commission of offence having expired — Whether requirement of double criminality fulfilled — The law of Austria

The paper is concerned with the problem of nationalities in China; i.e. big (Han)-chauvinism vs little (minority)-chauvinism. The communist policies on nationality from the late 1950s up to the present are reviewed. The paper also compares and analyses the failure of Mao's ethnic assimilation policies with Deng Xiaoping's more successful co-operation policies in recent years. (DÜI-Sen)

Collection of articles based on papers presented at a conference held by the Ligue des droits de l'homme, Feb. 1985. Deals with prerequisites for naturalization, especially with regard to foreign workers and their children. Includes historical and legal background and discussion of the political rights (especially the right to vote in local elections) of immigrants and of dual nationality.

States as International persons — Continuity of States — Legal status of Germany after 1945 — Legal consequences of the division of Germany — Whether the German Democratic Republic a foreign country — Applicability of rules of private international law in both parts of Germany — Common German nationality — Public policy — Whether the same in both parts of Germany — The law of the Federal Republic of Germany

212The individual in international law — Nationality — Statelessness — Testamentary dispositions of stateless person — Lack of national law to serve as personal law — International Convention Regulating Status of Stateless Persons, 1954 (Article 12 (1)) — Geneva Convention relating to Legal Status of Refugees, 1951 — Effect of international convention — Provision generally recognized in international law — The law of residence applied — The law of Israel.

Extradition — Conditions of — Extraditable crimes — Criminal offence committed in asylum State by alien — Legal proceedings pending in asylum State — Request for extradition made by State of nationality subsequently — Offence punishable by similar minimum sentence in both States — Extradition ordered but surrender of accused deferred pending trial and completion of sentence — Montevideo Convention on Extradition, 1933 — The law of Chile.

Little study has been devoted to the phenomenon of Crypto-Christianity. While some attention has been paid to the Crypto-Christians of Asia Minor, who were numerous, lived in groups, and endured a long time, the Crypto-Christians of the Balkans have been largely neglected, with the exception of an occasional work referring to only a single nationality, particularly the Greeks.

Nationality — Acquisition of — As consequence of change of sovereignty — Cession of parts of Canada by France to Great Britain by Treaty of Utrecht, 1713 — Status of Indian tribes — The law of Canada.International law in general — Subjects of international law — Indian tribes in Canada — Whether independent nation or subjects of the Crown — Treaty of Utrecht, 1713 — The law of Canada.