1st Edition

European Integration and the Nationalities Question

Edited By John McGarry, Michael Keating Copyright 2006
418 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

420 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

352 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

A highly topical examination of the effect of European integration on relations between states and minority nations. This new collection brings together the leading specialists in the field, and covers a wide range of cases, from Northern Ireland in the West, to Estonia and Latvia in the East, and Cyprus in the South-East. The contributors assess how European integration has... Read more

1. Introduction: European Integration and the Nationalities Question

John McGarry, Michael Keating, and Margaret Moore

Section A: Theoretical and Comparative Approaches

2. Europe, the State and the Nation

Michael Keating

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

Will Kymlicka

4. National Minorities and EU Enlargement: External or Domestic Incentives for Accommodation?

Gwendolyn Sasse

5. Autonomy, Power-sharing and Common Citizenship -- Principles for accommodating National Minorities in Europe

Rainer Bauböck

6. Kin-States Protecting National Minorities: Positive Trend or Dangerous Precedent?

Walter Kemp

7. Minorities, Violence, and Statehood on the European Periphery

Charles King

8. The Impact of Post-communist Regime Change and European Integration on Ethnic Minorities: The ‘Special’ Case of Ethnic Germans in Eastern Europe

Stefan Wolff

9. Cross-border Minorities and European Integration in Southeast Europe: The Hungarians and Serbs Compared

Judy Batt

 

Section B: Case-Studies

10. From ‘full national status’ to ‘independence’ in Europe -- The case of Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales

Anwen Elias

11. Nations without states in the EU: the Catalan case

Montserrat Guibernau

12. Scottish Autonomy and European Integration: The Response of Scotland’s Political Parties

Eve Hepburn

13. Basque Nationalism: Sovereignty, Independence and European Integration

Gurutz Jáuregui

14. Liberalising Estonia’s citizenship policy: The role of the European Union, OSCE and Council of Europe

Elena Jurado

15. Europe’s Limits: European Integration and Conflict Management in Northern Ireland

John McGarry

16. Breton Identity Highlighted by European Integration

Michel Nicolas

17. Baltic Identities and Interests in a European Setting: A Bottom-Up Perspective

Richard Rose, Sten Berglund and Neil Munro

18. EU Accession and Conflict Resolution in Theory and Practice: the Case of Cyprus

Nathalie Tocci

 

 

Biography

John McGarry is Professor of Political Studies and Canada Research Chair in Nationalism and Democracy at Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada. Michael Keating is Professor of Regional Studies at the European University Institute in Florence and Professor of Scottish Politics at the University of Aberdeen.