Ethnicity and Democratisation in the New Europe
Ethnicity and Democratisation in the New Europe explores the complex relationship between ethnicity and democratisation, focusing on the newly emerging Europe. Divided into two parts, the book begins by conceptualising the nature of ethnicity and relating this idea to different theories of democracy and democratisation. It then presents a series of case studies which complement and build upon those theories. The case studies cover ethnic experiences both in democratised and in democratising European countries including Germany, Spain, Slovenia, Czechoslovakia, Russia, Albania and Hungary.
The contributors locate ethnic experiences within a series of common frameworks to shed light on key issues such as:
- the effect of democratisation and authoritarian rule on ethnic tensions;
- the extent to which ethnicity is constructed as an ideological tool;
- the ways in which democratisation offers socio-political accommodation;
- whether assimilation is a precondition for democratisation.
This accessible study will familiarise students with a range of key conceptual and comparative issues in ethnicity, nation-building and the process of democratisation, and will challenge many traditionally held views about the nature of ethnicity in the New Europe.
Karl Cordell is Senior Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Plymouth.
First published 1999 by Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE
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1999 Karl Cordell, selection and editorial matter; individual chapters, the contributors
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Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data Ethnicity and Democratisation in the New Europe/edited by Karl Cordell. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. DemocracyEurope. 2. DemocratizationEurope. 3. Ethnicity Europe. 4. EuropePolitics and government1989. I. Cordell, Karl. JN12.E75 1998 9827618 323.1409049dc21 CIP
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Contributors
Agneza Bozic has studied in both Yugoslavia and the United States. She is currently completing her doctoral programme on the nature of the Yugoslav crisis, and has published a variety of articles and papers on aspects of the Yugoslav wars of succession.
Adam Burgess teaches in the Department of Sociology at the University of Kent. He is the author of Divided Europe: The New Domination of the East, and is currently writing a critique of the process of democratisation in Eastern Europe since 1989.
David Chandler is currently completing PhD research on democratisation in Bosnia at the International Social Policy Research Unit in Leeds and teaches Post-war East European Development at the University of Northumbria.
Karl Cordell is Senior Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Plymouth. He has written a variety of academic texts on topics which include inter-state relations in Germany, the nature of Die Wende of 198990, the role of the Evangelical Church in Germany, the nature of German national consciousness today, and the German minority in contemporary Poland. In 1995 he founded the Political Studies Specialist Group on Ethnic Minority Politics, of which he was convenor until 1997. He is currently engaged in long-term research on Polands entry into the European Union.
Chris Gilligan is a doctoral student at the Department of Politics and Contemporary History at the University of Salford. He is a regular contributor to Political Studies on the politics of Northern Ireland, and together with Jon Tongue edited Peace or War? Understanding the Peace Process in Northern Ireland, which was published by Ashgate in 1997.
Montserrat Guibernau is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations at the University of Warwick and has also taught at the Universidad Autonoma of Barcelona. Her numerous publications in the area of nations and nationalism include: Nationalisms: The Nation-State and Nationalism in the Twentieth Century (Polity Press), and The Ethnicity Reader (Polity Press) which was written together with John Rex.
Stuart Horsman is based at the University of Sheffield and is currently researching into minorities, security and Islam in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, and has published on the Tajik civil war.
Boris Jesih was born in Maribor in 1956 and gained his Masters degree in 1992. Since 1982, he has been engaged in research at the Institute for Ethnic Studies, Ljubljana. His areas of interest include ethnic minority issues in Austria. He has authored a number of texts in this field, and is editor of the Institutes journal Razprave.
Tomasz Kamusella combines teaching duties at the University of Opole in Poland with his post at the provincial administration in Opole, where he is particularly concerned with Polands entry into the European Union. He has studied in Poland, the Czech Republic and South Africa, and has published on the German minority in Poland in both English and Polish.
Martin Kovats is currently completing a PhD on the Development of Roma Politics in Hungary at the University of Portsmouth. He has recently won a Wingate Scholarship with which he will conduct the first comprehensive research into the minority self-government system in Hungary.
Hugh Miall lectures in the Department of International Relations and Politics at the University of Lancaster. In addition to his consultancy work, he is the author of numerous texts on a variety of topics in the field of European politics. His most recent works include: Albania in Transition: Development and Conflict, and Minority Rights in Europe: The Scope for a Transnational Regime.
Alexander Ossipov gained his doctoral degree in ethnology from the Institute of Ethnology of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1993. He is currently a programme officer with the Memorial Human Rights Centre, and the International Institute for Humanities and Political Studies in Moscow. He has also published in the area of inter-ethnic relations in post-Soviet Russia.
