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Multiple Nationality and International Law.
Multiple Nationality and International Law. By Alfred M. Boll. Leiden, Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2007. Pp. xix, 626. $201, 149 [euro].
This hefty tome, Multiple Nationality and International Law by Alfred Boll, is most welcome and of topical interest. As I am writing this review, a fierce political debate sweeps over the Netherlands about multiple nationality generally and more specifically about the (un)desirability of the presence--in our parliament and government--of politicians with more than one nationality. Nationalist right- and leftwing parties, as well as the liberal party VVD, are demanding that two newly appointed ministers and secretaries of state in the recently formed cabinet (Balkenende IV) abandon their original Turkish and Moroccan nationalities, for fear of the semblance of double loyalties and interests. One of them, of Moroccan descent, is not able to shed his Moroccan nationality, as Moroccan legislation does not allow renunciation, at least in practice. The newly founded, Islamophobic "Party for Freedom," one of the winners in the latest elections, has proposed legislation to exclude persons with multiple nationality from the government, parliament, provincial and local representative bodies, the judiciary, diplomatic corps, police force, the military, you name it. Curiously, the liberal party holds, but with no rationale, th...See the full content of this document
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