The twentieth century saw the emergence of new states shaped on the classic nation-state model. How has this model been moulded and implemented? What have been the implications for minorities in these new nation-states? And how have minorities responded to nationalising processes? Following a discussion by Rogers Brubaker of his concept of nationalising state, contributions to this volume examine the dynamic relations between national minorities and nation-states established in the course of the last century, including Ukraine, Moldova, Turkey, Malaysia and Israel.
This book’s original theoretical framework and comparative approach offer a new understanding of the complex interactions between the formulation of a state identity and the aspirations of those who do not fit in the proclaimed core nation. In light of recent developments in - notably - Ukraine and Israel, this book is essential reading for all those interested in the rights and protection of national minorities and, more broadly, in the debates over the definition of the polity in a tense environment.
A group of young scholars, under the intellectual patronage of Rogers Brubaker, have undertaken the challenging task of disentangling the complex relationships between newly nationalising states and their national minorities, mainly in Eastern and Central Europe, but also beyond (Malaysia, Israel, Turkey…). The result is a well researched book, theoretically informed, which sheds refreshing light on state-building processes, minorities’ mobilisation and inter-group relations. -- Alain Dieckhoff, Sciences Po Paris
This volume brings together well researched case studies which explain when and how nationalism begins to matter. Nationalism and group belonging are not taken for granted, but explored as political processes that display similarities from Southeast Asia to Poland. The contribution of this volume is to explore the relationship between nation-states and minorities as dynamic process. -- Florian Bieber, University of Graz
Julien Danero Iglesias (PhD in Political Science, Université libre de
Bruxelles) is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Political Science at the Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. He has interests in nationalism and minority studies, with a focus on Central and Eastern Europe. His current work focuses on nationalism in the Republic of Moldova and on Romanian minorities outside of the European Union. He recently published in Nationalities Papers, Mots and Revues d'Etudes comparatives Est-Ouest.
Nenad Stojanovic is a Swiss National Science Foundation Professor of Political Science at the University of Geneva.
Sharon Weinblum (PhD in Social and Political Sciences, Université libre de Bruxelles) is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Oxford. Her work focuses on different aspects of Israeli democracy, including the tension between security and democracy, and the status of non-Jewish populations in the country. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in, among others, Politique et Sociétés, Perspectives on European Politics and Society and Constellations.
Rogers Brubaker is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has written widely on social theory, immigration, citizenship, nationalism, and ethnicity. His books include Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany (1992), Nationalism Reframed: Nationhood and the National Question in the New Europe (1996), Ethnicity without Groups (2004), and Nationalist Politics and Everyday Ethnicity in a Transylvanian Town (2006).
Magdalena Dembinska (PhD in Political Science, Université de Montréal) is an assistant professor at the Department of Political Science, Université de Montréal. Her research is situated in the subject of identity politics and conflict, nation-building, nationalism and diversity, in Eurasia and Central Europe. She is currently working on ethnopolitical mobilisation of Kashubs and Silesians in Poland, and on historical politics and identity transformations in de facto states (Transnistria, Abkhazia and Turkish Cyprus). Recent publications include Vivre ensemble dans la diversité culturelle (Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2012), and articles in Ethnopolitics, Études internationales, Canadian Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, and Nations and Nationalism.
Fulya Memisoglu (PhD in Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham) is an Assistant Lecturer in International Relations at Çukurova University, Turkey. She has research interests in Europeanisation of minority politics, international and regional human rights institutions. Her current researches focus on minority nationalism, migration and asylum policies.
Karolina Prasad (MA in Political Science, University of Warsaw) is a PhD candidate at the Universität Hamburg and at the German Institute of Global and Area Studies GIGA, Hamburg, Germany. She has research interests in ethnic politics, ethnic identity change and nationalism. Her work focuses on ethnic minorities in Malaysian and Indonesian Borneo.
Antoine Roger (PhD in Political Science, University of Bordeaux, France) is Full Professor of Political Science at Sciences Po Bordeaux, member of Institut universitaire de France and Head of Centre Emile Durkheim (CNRS, University of Bordeaux). He has research interests in comparative politics and political sociology. His current work focuses on the political representation of peasants and the claims against European policies in France and Romania. Recent publications have appeared in Revue française de science politique, Sociologie du travail, Politix and Cultures & Conflits.
Edina Szöcsik (MA in Political Science) is currently a guest researcher at the Political Science Department of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She was part of the PhD programme 'Civil Society and External Democratisation in Post-Socialist Europe' which was based on the cooperation between the ETH Zurich and the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) and funded by the Heinrich Boell Foundation. In her dissertation, she analysed the radicalisation process of ethnic minority parties in Central and Eastern Europe.
Hanna Vasilevich (MA in International Relations and Diplomacy, Anglo-American University in Prague, MES in European Integration and Regionalism, the University of Graz and the Autonomous University of Barcelona) is a PhD candidate at the Metropolitan University in Prague, Czech Republic, and assisting editor of the quarterly Belarusian Review. Her research interests cover national identities, interethnic relations and national minorities in the CEE region in historical and contemporary perspectives. Her current work focuses on national identity and state policies in Belarus after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Doris Wydra (MA in Political Science, LLD University of Salzburg) is Senior Scientist at the Department of Political Science and Executive Director of the Salzburg Centre of European Union Studies. Her research focuses on democracy and human rights promotion as aspects of external governance of the European Union, the European Neighbourhood Policy and the relations between the European Union and Russia. She has published on the question of the democratic development in Russia and Ukraine, minority legislation in Russia and a book on the Autonomous Republic of Crimea from the perspective of international law. Recent publications have appeared in Osteuropa Recht, Österreichische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft and International Journal of Social Ecology and Sustainable Development.
Christina Isabel Zuber obtained her PhD from the University of Cologne and is a research associate at the Chair of Comparative Politics, University of Cologne, Germany. She has research interests in comparative political institutions, party politics and ethnic politics. Her current work focuses on the role of ethnicity in party competition in European democracies. Recent publications have appeared in Comparative Political Studies and Party Politics.
Julian Bernauer (PhD in Political Science, University of Konstanz, Germany) is a Postdoctoral Research Assistant at the Institute of Political Science, University of Berne, Switzerland. His research interests include political representation, empirical patterns of democracy, and quantitative methods. Recent publications have appeared in the European Journal of Political Research and Electoral Studies or are forthcoming with Comparative Political Studies.
Daniel Bochsler (PhD in Political Science, University of Geneva) is Assistant Professor of Democratisation at NCCR Democracy at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. His main research interests include political representation, multi-ethnic societies, and democratisation of post-communist countries. His monograph 'Territory and Electoral Rules in Post-Communist Democracies' has been published by Palgrave, and his articles have been published, among others, in Acta Politica, Democratization, Electoral Studies, Ethnopolitics, Europe-Asia Studies, Politics and Policy, Public Choice, Regional and Federal Studies, the Swiss Political Science Review, and the European Yearbook for Minority Issues.
