Kin-state Politics

Germany as a Kin-state: The Development and Implementation of a Norm-consistent External Minority Policy towards Central and Eastern Europe

Published in Nationalities Papers in 2007 and co-authored with Karl Cordell, this article demonstrates the continuity...

Bilateral Ethnopolitics after the Cold War

Using the relationship between Hungary and Slovakia as a case study, this article discusses the problems associated with ‘bilateral’ ethnopolitics in the context of cross‐border minority situations. It starts by outlining a theoretical framework for such an analysis,...

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German Minorities in Europe

The study of ethnic minorities and their role in the domestic politics of their host states has long attracted scholars from a wide range of disciplines in the social sciences and humanities. By contrast, national (or external) minorities, have been under-represented...

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