ABSTRACT
This chapter seeks to widen that debate to other crucial arenas of international politics and examines the areas where traditional assumptions about sovereignty are clearly inadequate to explain contemporary developments. It also examines the emergence through the 1980s and 1990s of new models of sovereignty from the constitutional nationalist parties in Quebec and Scotland. The chapter looks at the proposals which have been made by the international community to resolve the conflict in Kosovo at the pre-bombing conferences in Rambouillet, France and more recently as incorporated into the, United Nations imposed, Constitutional Framework of 2001. It is difficult to envisage judgments on minority rights being very effective remedies for minority ethno-nationalist communities who feel excluded or dominated within their existing states. While overtaken by events and subsequent bombing of Yugoslavia, the Rambouillet accord is worth analyzing as it represented a serious proposal, which fundamentally violated the normal rules and definitions of sovereignty as articulated in the Westphalian model.
