Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface and Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
List of Abbreviations

Introduction
Stefan Troebst and Farimah Daftary

PART I: COMPARISONS

Chapter 1. Regionalism in Western Europe
Peter Alter

Chapter 2. Conflicts Between East European States and Minorities in an Age of Democracy
Tom Gallagher

PART II: CASE STUDIES

Chapter 3. Ethnoradicalism as a Mirror Image of State Centralisation: the Basque Paradigm in Franco’s Spain
Daniele Conversi

Chapter 4. Chechnya and the Caucasus
Helen Krag

Chapter 5.
Adrian Guelke

Chapter 6. Explaining Ethnic Violence in Bosnia-Herzegovina
Marie-Janine Calic

PART III: LESSONS

Chapter 7. The Use of Force in Minority – Majority Relations: An International Law Perspective
Rainer Hofmann

Chapter 8. Third Party Mediation in Violent Ethnic Conflicts
Norbert Ropers

PART IV: CONCLUSION

Chapter 9. In Quest of Peaceful Coexistence – Strategies in Regulating Ethnic Conflicts
Ulrich Schneckener and Dieter Senghaas

Index

About the Author

Stefan Troebst is Professor of East European Cultural Studies at the University of Leipzig and a former Director of the European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI), Flensburg, Germany.

Reviews

“In particular, in German-speaking Europe there is a lot of expertise on ethnic tensions in Central and Eastern Europe…as this book testifies. The chapters are well written and can be read as separate pieces…They are of a high quality.” • Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies