Will Kymlicka is widely regarded as the most influential and original theorist of the rights and status of ethnocultural groups in liberal democracies.This volume brings together fifteen of Will Kymlicka's recent essays on nationalism, multiculturalism and citizenship. These essays expand on the well-known theory of minority rights first developed in his Multicultural Citizenship. In these new essays, Kymlicka applies his theory to several pressing controversies regarding ethnic relations today, responds to some of his critics, and situates the debate over minority rights within the larger context of issues of nationalism, democratic citizenship and globalization.political processes. Taken together, these essays make a major contribution to enriching our understanding of the theory and practice of ethnocultural relations in Western democracies.

• Part A. The New Debate over Minority Rights


• 1: The New Debate over Minority Rights


• 2: Do We Need a Liberal Theory of Minority Rights? Reply to Carens, Young, Parekh and Forst


• 3: Liberal Culturalism: An Emerging Consensus?


• Part B. Ethnocultural Justice


• 4: Human Rights and Ethnocultural Justice


• 5: Minority Nationalism and Multination Federalism


• 6: Theorizing Indigenous Rights


• 7: Indigenous Rights and Environmental Justice


• 8: The Theory and Practice of Immigrant Multiculturalism


• Part C. Misunderstanding Nationalism


• 9: Misunderstanding Nationalism


• 10: Modernity and Minority Nationalism: Commentary on Thomas Franck


• 11: The Paradox of Liberal Nationalism


• 12: From Enlightenment Cosmopolitanism to Liberal Nationalism


• 13: Cosmopolitanism, Nation-States and Minority Nationalism: A Critical Review of Recent Literature


• 14: American Multiculturalism in the International Arena


• 15: Minority Nationalism and Immigrant Integration


• Part D: Democratic Citizenship in Multiethnic States


• 16: Return of the Citizen: A Survey of Recent Work on Citizenship Theory


• 17: Education for Citizenship


• 18: Citizenship in an Era of Globalization: Commentary on Held


• 19: Liberal Egalitarianism and Civic Republicanism: Friends or Enemies?

Will Kymlicka is the author of four books published by Oxford University Press: "Liberalism, Community, and Culture" (1989), "Contemporary Political Philosophy" (1990), "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, and "Finding Our Way: Rethinking Ethnocultural Relations in Canada" (1998). He is also the editor of "Justice in Political Philosophy" (Elgar, 1992), "The Rights of Minority Cultures" (Oxford, 1995), and "Ethnicity and Group Rights (NYU, 1997)". He is currently Professor of Philosophy at Queens University.