Description
Book SynopsisDivided Nations and European Integration is a timely and authoritative collection that demonstrates how the expansion of pan-European institutions is affecting nations divided by sovereign borders, affording political opportunities to some but denying the aspirations of others.
Trade Review"This volume is persuasive, articulate, and coherent, and is a great read for anyone who is interested in understanding identity dynamics, histories, and narratives of the cases examined. It can also be used as a textbook at the undergraduate or graduate level." *
Human Rights Quarterly *
"This edited volume on divided nations and European integration is an insightful addition to the National and Ethnic Conflict in the 21st Century series from the University of Pennsylvania Press. . . . An overall comprehensive examination of European integration and the divided nation." *
Political Studies Review *
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Divided Nations and European Integration provides not only a sober account of the limited impact European integration has had on kin state policies across, and minority protection inside, international borders, it also offers an elegant explanation for variations that do not fit the stereotypical East-West divide. A must-read book for scholars in comparative nationalism studies, European integration studies, and international relations." * Rainer Bauböck, European University Institute *
"An excellent, up-to-date, normative, and empirical approach to the rights of national minorities in divided European nations. This subject is linked to the improvement of political liberty and political stability of contemporary democracies and has not received the attention it deserves by scholars until recent years. This volume is certain to become a major academic reference work for any reader interested in democracy, nationalism, and European affairs." * Ferran Requejo, Universitat Pompeu Fabra *
"These renowned authors, under the able leadership of Mabry, McGarry, Moore, and O'Leary, innovate by bringing the areas of security studies and global justice to bear on the study of nations divided by state frontiers. In sharp contrast with the dominant literature in comparative politics and international relations, the contributors take seriously moral and political claims made by these communities. The volume advances a highly original approach to the question of how divided nations have been affected by European integration." * Alain-G. Gagnon, Université du Québec à Montréal *
"An innovative and important collection.
Divided Nations and European Integration offers a substantial contribution to nationalism studies and European studies." * Stephen Tierney, University of Edinburgh *
Table of ContentsContents
Introduction. John McGarry and Brendan O'Leary
Chapter 1. Divided Nations and Challenges to Statist and Global Theories of Justice
Margaret Moore
Chapter 2. Forked Tongues: The Language Politics of Divided Nations
Tristan James Mabry
Chapter 3. Kin-State Activism in Hungary, Romania, and Russia: The Politics of Ethnic Demography
Zsuzsa Csergő and James M. Goldgeier
Chapter 4. European Integration and the Basque Country in France and Spain
Zoe Bray and Michael Keating
Chapter 5. Albanians Divided by Borders: Loyal to State or Nation
Alexandra Channer
Chapter 6. The Kurds and EU Enlargement: In Search of Restraints on State Power
David Romano
Chapter 7. European Integration and Postwar Political Relations between Croatia and the Bosnian Croats and Serbia and the Bosnian Serbs
Marsaili Fraser
Chapter 8. The Divided Irish
Etain Tannam
Chapter 9. Germany and German Minorities in Europe
Stefan Wolff
Chapter 10. Ties That No Longer Bind: Greece, Turkey, and the Fading Allure of Ethnic Kinship in Cyprus
Tozun Bahcheli and Sid Noel
Conclusion: The Exaggerated Impact of European Integration on the Politics of Divided Nations
John McGarry and Brendan O'Leary
List of Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments
