Multicultural Odysseys: Navigating the New International Politics of Diversity

Will Kymlicka is the author of five books published by Oxford University Press: Liberalism, Community, and Culture (1989), Contemporary Political Philosophy (1990; second edition 2002), Multicultural Citizenship (1995), which was awarded the Macpherson Prize by the Canadian Political Science Association, and the Bunche Award by the American Political Science Association, Finding Our Way: Rethinking Ethnocultural Relations in Canada (1998); and Politics in theVernacular (2001). He is also the editor of Justice in Political Philosophy (Elgar, 1992), The Rights of Minority Cultures (OUP, 1995), and co-editor of Ethnicity and Group Rights (NYU Press, 1997), Citizenship in Diverse Societies (OUP, 2000), Can Liberal Pluralism Be Exported ? (OUP, 2001), Language
Rights and Political Theory (OUP, 2003), and Multiculturalism and the Welfare State (OUP, 2006). He is currently a Professor of Philosophy at Queen's University.

Using an innovative blend of political theory, international law, and studies on the sociological and geo-political foundations of minority rights, this landmark publication will set the debate on the likely future of the international politics of diversity.

Winner of the North American Society of Social Philosophy Book Prize

PART I: THE (RE)-INTERNATIONALIZATION OF STATE-MINORITY RELATIONS; 1. Introduction; 2. From Post-War Universal Human Rights to Post-Cold War Minority Rights; PART II: MAKING SENSE OF LIBERAL MULTICULTURALISM; 3. The Forms of Liberal Multiculturalism; 4. The Origins of Liberal Multiculturalism: Sources and Preconditions; 5. Evaluating Liberal Multiculturalism in Practice; PART III: PARADOXES IN THE GLOBAL DIFFUSION OF LIBERAL MULTICULTURALISM; 6. The European Experiment; 7. The Global Challenge; 8. Conclusion: The Way Forward?; Bibliography