ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book discusses the sources and prospects for a transnational regime of minority rights. It focuses on the conceptual and empirical prospects for prioritizing a European Union (EU) constitutional provision of local self-governance. This was intended to unlock self-determination from the delimitations of state sovereignty and to stress the important, open ended dimensions of state consent. The book demonstrates how the tensions between traditional state sovereignty and the peoples' right to self-determination resulted in differing formulations of democratic self-government. It defines democratic sovereignty as the convergence of democratic values and self-administration, primarily in the form of elections, voting, and parliamentary representation. The book proposes an experimental or new institutional design(s) to meet the challenges of establishing regime.
