Ethnic Politics in Eastern Europe

Ethnic Politics in Eastern Europe
Author:
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Total Pages: 532
Release:
Genre: Europe, Eastern
ISBN: 9780765619112

This guide charts national histories and policies, relevant statistics and chronologies, and the identities, programmes, and activities of the full spectrum of ethnically-based parties and organizations in Central and Eastern Europe.

Ethnic Politics, Regime Support and Conflict in Central and Eastern Europe

Ethnic Politics, Regime Support and Conflict in Central and Eastern Europe
Author: Julian Bernauer
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2015-08-10
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1137481692

Ethnicity and ethnic parties have often been portrayed as a threat to political stability. This book challenges the notion that the organization of politics in heterogeneous societies should overcome ethnicity. Rather, descriptive representation of ethnic groups has potential to increase regime support and reduce conflict.

Ethnic Conflicts and Civil Society

Ethnic Conflicts and Civil Society
Author: Andreas Klinke
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2018-02-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1351758756

This title was first published in 2000: The papers presented in this volume are based on the discussions of a workshop which asked: how can ethnic and political cooperation be accomplished in ethnically and politically heterogeneous countries after the collapse of the communist regimes which left a void for nationalist and even chauvinist movements? The objectives are: to promote a better understanding of the contemporary "ethnic" conflicts and their social, cultural and political causes; to determine the historical, structural and political developments that have led to or intensified these conflicts; to analyze and develop positive role models for coping with such conflicts; to provide constructive proposals for future conflict resolution mechanisms; and to identify the crucial elements for building trust-generating institutions on the basis of the civil society model. The papers address ethnic conflicts in Eastern Europe, with a particular focus on the former republics of Yugoslavia. They aim to go beyond the analysis of causes and manifestations of such conflicts and to offer constructive ideas for the post-Civil-War period.

Ethnicity and Democratisation in the New Europe

Ethnicity and Democratisation in the New Europe
Author: Karl Cordell
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1999
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780415173117

Focusing on Europe this book explores the complex relationships between ethnicity and democratisation. Case studies cover ethnic experiences in a range of countries including Germany Spain, Russia, Hungary and Polnad.

The Politics of National Minority Participation in Post-communist Europe

The Politics of National Minority Participation in Post-communist Europe
Author: Jonathan P. Stein
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2000
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780765605283

This collection systematically analyzes different models of minority politics in Eastern Europe, in an effort to understand why tensions are manageable in some contexts, uncontainable in others. There are case studies of Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Estonia, Latvia, and Romania.

Europeanization and Minority Political Agency

Europeanization and Minority Political Agency
Author: Zsuzsa Csergö
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2018-09-11
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0429874545

Zsuzsa Csergö is Associate Professor and Head of the Political Studies Department at Queen’s University in Canada. She is also the President of the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN). Her research addresses questions of nationalism, democratization, and the influence of EU integration on state-minority relations in post-Cold War Europe. Ada-Charlotte Regelmann is a Project Manager at Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, focusing on the social inclusion of marginalised groups in European societies. Previously, she was a lecturer at Queen’s University Belfast, UK, and Maynooth University, Ireland. Her research explores the impact of Europeanisation on nation-state-building and social integration in post-communist Europe.

The Foundations of Ethnic Politics

The Foundations of Ethnic Politics
Author: Henry E. Hale
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 283
Release: 2008-06-30
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1139473077

Despite implicating ethnicity in everything from civil war to economic failure, researchers seldom consult psychological research when addressing the most basic question: What is ethnicity? The result is a radical scholarly divide generating contradictory recommendations for solving ethnic conflict. Research into how the human brain actually works demands a revision of existing schools of thought. Hale argues ethnic identity is a cognitive uncertainty-reduction device with special capacity to exacerbate, but not cause, collective action problems. This produces a new general theory of ethnic conflict that can improve both understanding and practice. A deep study of separatism in the USSR and CIS demonstrates the theory's potential, mobilizing evidence from elite interviews, three local languages, and mass surveys. The outcome significantly reinterprets nationalism's role in CIS relations and the USSR's breakup, which turns out to have been a far more contingent event than commonly recognized.

Ethnic Politics After Communism

Ethnic Politics After Communism
Author: Zoltan D. Barany
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2005
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780801472763

The Soviet Union encompassed dozens of nationalities and ethnicities and, in the wake of its collapse, the politics of the area have undergone enormous change. The articles in this book examine various facets of ethnicity in postcommunist Europe and Eurasia.

Transnational Cooperation of Ethnopolitical Mobilization

Transnational Cooperation of Ethnopolitical Mobilization
Author: Yu-Wen Chen
Publisher: Peter Lang
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2009
Genre: Civil rights
ISBN: 9783631589489

This book explores the influences for ethnopolitical groups to act internationally in advancement of their group interests. Yu-Wen Chen proposes an ecological approach to comprehend ethnopolitical contention. In essence, she argues that transnationalizing the contention has the merit of raising the ethnopolitical group's salience and helps to create niches that can demarcate one group from other claim-making groups in a society. Quantitative analysis of the primary data from the European Survey of Ethnopolitical Groups (ESEPG) and qualitative case studies confirm that although some ethnopolitical groups have presented their issues in the international arena, the domestic realm is still the main locus for ethnopolitical contention to occur. Salience, resources, domestic and international opportunity structures affect ethnopolitical groups' international engagement. This book is an essential volume for anyone interested in ethnic mobilization, social movements, and transnationalization.