The Protection of Minorities in the Wider Europe

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction:The Outlook for the Protection of Minorities in the Wider Europe

   1. Introduction: The Outlook for the Protection of Minorities in the Wider Europe

      • Marc Weller

      Pages 1-7

3. The Evolution of Minority Governance in Europe

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9

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   2. The Evolving Basis of European Norms of Minority Rights: Rights to Culture, Participation and Autonomy

      • Will Kymlicka

      Pages 11-41

   3. Collective Rights in the Context of EU Accession

      • Hans-Joachim Heintze

      Pages 42-53

   4. Forging Territorial Cohesion in Diversity: Are National Minorities Promoting Fourth-Level Integration?

      • Tove H. Malloy

      Pages 54-91

4. European Mechanisms for the Management of Minority-Majority Relations

   1. Front Matter

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   2. A Remaining Share or a New Part? The EU’s Role vis-à-vis Minorities after the Enlargement Decade

      • Gabriel von Toggenburg

      Pages 95-127

   3. The EU and the Management of Ethnic Conflict

      • Stefan Wolff, Annemarie Peen Rodt

      Pages 128-153

   4. The Enlargement of the European Union and the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities

      • Krzysztof Drzewicki

      Pages 154-170

   5. The Future of Minority Issues in the Council of Europe and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe

      • Rainer Hofmann

      Pages 171-205

5. Minority-Majority Relations in Practice in an Enlarged EU

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Minority Protection in Central Europe and Accession to the EU

      • Wojciech Sadurski

      Pages 209-231

   3. Enlargement and Interethnic Power-Sharing Arrangements in Central and Eastern Europe

      • Martin Brusis

      Pages 232-250

   4. The Europeanization of Minority-Majority Relations in the Greece-Turkey-Cyprus Triangle

      • Nathalie Tocci

      Pages 251-275

   5. The Effective Protection of Minorities in the Wider Europe: Counterbalancing the Security Track

      • Katherine Nobbs

      Pages 276-287

6. Back Matter

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This book examines whether we are moving towards an integrated regional system of legal provision for minorities. It illustrates the tension between newer member states, many of which have an interest in seeing minority issues addressed, and established members, which remain hesitant in committing themselves fully to a minority rights regime.

• conflict
• desegregation
• EU accession
• Europe
• European Union (EU)
• Governance
• participation
• european union politics

• Germany

  Marc Weller

• Programme Analyst with the United Nations Development Programme, Kosovo, Yugoslavia

  Denika Blacklock

• European Centre for Minority Issues, Flensburg, Germany

  Katherine Nobbs

MARC WELLER is Director of the European Centre for Minority Issues in Flensburg, Germany. His writings focus mainly on conflict management, international law, and minority rights. He has acted as legal advisor to several governments and organizations, and has been a member of international peace processes. Dr Weller is Reader in International Law at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of the Lauterpacht Research Centre for International Law and Hughes Hall. He is also Director of the Carnegie Project on Resolving Self-determination Disputes through Complex Power-sharing, and of the Cambridge Rockefeller Project on Restoring an International Consensus of the Rules Governing the Use of Force.

DENIKA BLACKLOCK is Programme Analyst with the United Nations Development Programme in Kosovo. She holds a degree in International Conflict Analysis from the University of Kent, Canterbury, UK. Previously, she worked with the European Centre for Minority Issues and the Slovak Institute for International Studies. Her technical and academic work to date has focused on the situation of minorities in transitional and post-conflict countries, with a special interest in institutional reform.

KATHERINE NOBBS is Research Associate and Publications Coordinator at the European Centre for Minority Issues in Flensburg, Germany. She holds an MPhil in International Relations from the University of Cambridge, a BA in Politics from the University of Nottingham and a Graduate Diplomain Law from the College of Law, Bloomsbury.

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