1st Edition

Regionalization and Minority Policies in Central Europe Case Studies from Poland, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania

Edited By Stefan August Lutgenau Copyright 2013
196 Pages
by Studien Verlag, Austria

If Europe, with its long historic and dendritic development, has common patterns, one might be its heterogeneity. Europe was and is shaped by its different regions and minorities within national borders. Regionalization in Central Eastern Europe was often suspected of playing into the hands of minorities seeking centrifugal autonomy and thus endangering the respective national entity. There is... Read more

Biography

Stefan August Lutgenau is the founding director of Foster Europe - a Foundation for Strong European Regions. He is a historian, active in the fields of international civil society networking, development cooperation, and human rights. His main areas of academic research include Holocaust era assets, forced and slave labor, as well as European diplomatic history.