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1. EU Conflict Management

   Edited by James Hughes

   Series: Association for the Study of Nationalities

   The EU’s self promotion as a ‘conflict manager’ is embedded in a discourse about its ‘shared values’ and their foundation in a connection between security, development and democracy. This book provides a collection of essays based on the latest cutting edge research into the EU’s active engagement...

   Published November 12th 2012 by Routledge
2. Crimes of State Past and Present

   Government-Sponsored Atrocities and International Legal Responses

   Edited by David Crowe

   Series: Association for the Study of Nationalities

   War Crimes and acts of genocide are as old as history itself, but particularly during the 20th century. Yet what are war crimes and acts of genocide? And why did it take the world so long to define these crimes and develop legal institutions to bring to justice individuals and nations responsible...

   Published November 27th 2011 by Routledge
3. The Comparative Approach to National Movements

   Miroslav Hroch and Nationalism Studies

   Edited by Alexander Maxwell

   Series: Association for the Study of Nationalities

   Miroslav Hroch’s Social Preconditions of National Revival has profoundly influenced the study of nationalism since it first appeared in English translation, particularly because of its famous three-phase model for describing and analyzing national movements in Eastern Europe. Contributors to this...

   Published October 3rd 2011 by Routledge
4. Ethnicity and Religion

   Intersections and Comparisons

   Edited by Joseph Ruane, Jennifer Todd

   Series: Association for the Study of Nationalities

   Religion has regained political prominence in the twenty first century and not least for the manner in which it intersects with ethnicity. Many ethnic conflicts have a strong religious dimension, and religion appears as a powerful force for mobilisation, solidarity and violence. Religion and...

   Published November 9th 2010 by Routledge
5. The Communist Quest for National Legitimacy in Europe, 1918-1989

   Edited by Martin Mevius

   Series: Association for the Study of Nationalities

   There are two popular myths concerning the relationship between communism and nationalism. The first is that nationalism and communism are wholly antagonistic and mutually exclusive. The second is the assertion that in communist Eastern Europe nationalism was oppressed before 1989, to emerge...

   Published September 1st 2010 by Routledge
6. The Ethnopolitics of Elections

   Edited by Florian Bieber, Stefan Wolff

   Series: Association for the Study of Nationalities

   This volume conceptualizes the dynamics underlying electoral politics in ethnically divided societies, providing empirical evidence and analysis of recent elections in such societies on a comparative and single-case basis, including case studies of Macedonia, Slovakia, Belgium, Malaysia, Singapore,...

   Published February 22nd 2009 by Routledge
7. Identities, Nations and Politics after Communism

   Edited by Roger E. Kanet

   Series: Association for the Study of Nationalities

   This book focuses on questions of identity that have confronted the countries of Central and Eastern Europe after the collapse of the communist system that had previously provided them with an identity. This development both facilitated and necessitated a reassessment of the now independent...

   Published April 24th 2008 by Routledge
8. Cultural Autonomy in Contemporary Europe

   Edited by David J. Smith, Karl Cordell

   Series: Association for the Study of Nationalities

   In this volume, some of the world’s leading scholars involved in researching the fields of ethnopolitics, nationalism and ideas of nation and state, have come together to produce a work that is both original and accessible. The volume explores the rich, but sadly neglected tradition of thought on...

   Published February 21st 2008 by Routledge
9. Transnationalism in the Balkans

   Edited by Denisa Kostovicova, Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic

   Series: Association for the Study of Nationalities

   After a decade of exclusive nationalism, violence and isolation of the 1990s, the Balkans has seen the emergence of transnational links between the former ethnic foes. Do these new cross-border links herald the era of inter-ethnic reconciliation in place of the politics of ethnic exclusion? Are...

   Published February 6th 2008 by Routledge
10. Gambling on Humanitarian Intervention

    Edited by Alan Kuperman, Timothy Crawford

    Series: Association for the Study of Nationalities

    Does humanitarian military intervention save lives as intended? Or does it perversely embolden rebels and ignite the spiral of violence that it seeks to prevent? Such questions lie at the heart of a new and lively controversy in international politics. "Gambling on Humanitarian Intervention"...

    Published December 23rd 2007 by Routledge