This volume assesses Non-Territorial Autonomy (NTA) in terms of its practical capacity to
support the linguistic cultural and educational rights of national minority groups across
Europe. The fact that 2023 marks the 25th anniversary of the coming into force of the Council
of Europe Framework Convention on National Minorities (FCNM) and European Charter for Regional
and Minority languages (ECRML) makes this book especially timely and relevant. Its numerous
detailed empirical studies one of which uses FCNM reporting as a benchmark give a picture of
the extent (or otherwise) to which international minority rights standards are actually being
realized through various NTA arrangements. In keeping with the principles laid out in these
foundational documents the contributions to this volume acknowledge that when it comes to the
effective delivery of linguistic cultural and educational rights NTA is best regarded not as
an alternative but as a complement to territorially based arrangements. This is an open access
book.
