Institutional Legacies of Communism (eBook, ePUB)

Change and Continuities in Minority Protection
Redaktion: Cordell, Karl; Osipov, Alexander; Agarin, Timofey

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Twenty years after the demise of communist policy, this book evaluates the continuing communist legacies in the current minority protection systems and legislations across a number of states in post-communist Europe.

The fall of communism and the process of democratisation across post-communist Europe led to considerable change in minority protection with new systems and national political institutions either developed or copied. In general, the new institutions reflected the practices and experiences of (western) European states and were installed upon advice from European security organisations. Yet many ideas, legislative frameworks, policies and practices remained open to interpretation on the ground. With case studies on a diverse set of post-communist polities including Slovakia, Bosnia, Macedonia, Ukraine, Estonia, Croatia, the Baltic States and Russia, expert contributors consider how the institutional legacies of the communist past impact on policies designed to support minority communities in the new European democracies.

Providing unique empirical material and comparative analyses of ethnocultural diversity management during and after communism, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of international relations, European politics, political geography, post-communism, ethnic politics, nationalism and national identity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135036652
• Artikelnr.: 39042194

Autorenporträt

Karl Cordell is Professor of Politics at Plymouth University, UK. Timofey Agarin is Lecturer in Politics at the Queen's University Belfast, UK. Alexander Osipov is Senior Research Associate of the European Centre for Minority Issues in Flensburg, Germany.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I 1. Introduction: Establishing the Context Karl Cordell and Timofey
Agarin 2. The Dead Weight of the Past? Institutional Change, Policy
Dynamics and the Communist Legacy in Minority Protection Timofey Agarin 3.
Faulted for the Wrong Reasons: Soviet Institutionalization of Ethnic
Diversity and Western (mis)interpretations Pal Kolsto 4. Minorities'
Protection in Russia: Is there a 'Communist Legacy'? Bill Bowring 5. Soviet
Parity of Nations or Western non-discrimination: is there a Dilemma for
Russia? Alexander Osipov Part II 6. The Ideology of Minority Protection
During the post-Communist Transition in Europe Karl Cordell 7.
Institutional Memories and Institutional Legacies: Managing
Minority-Majority Relations in post-Communist Europe Qua Cultural Autonomy
David Smith 8. Damp Squibs? Essentialist Underpinnings of Nationalities
Policy and the Limits of Minority Participation in Slovakia Ada-Charlotte
Regelmann 9. Ethnic Power-Sharing in Bosnia and Macedonia: Institutional
Legacies of Communism Cvete Koneska 10. Between the Soviet Legacy and
Opportunism: Minority Policy in Ukraine Tatyana Malyarenko Part III 11. Old
Concept New Rhetoric? Zero Classes for Romani Children as an Example of
Minority Governance in Slovakia Jarmila Lajcakova 12. Soviet Nationalities
Policy and Minority Protection in the Baltic States: a Battle of Legacies
Priit Jarve 13. Boosting Similarity and Difference or Only Difference?
Soviet Nationality Policies and Integration in post-Communist Estonia
Elo-Hanna Seljamaa 14. Estonia's state-building: The Dying Embers of the
Soviet Institutional Legacy? Olena Podolian 15. The Representation of
Minorities in the Public Sector in the EU Accession Process: The Case of
Croatia Simondia Kacarska 16. Conclusion Karl Cordell and Timofey Agarin