Kin-state Politics

Twenty Years On: The Continuing Relevance of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities

Given the persistence of minority-majority tensions and conflict across the OSCE area and beyond, the institution of the High Commissioner on National Minorities remains as relevant today as twenty years ago, and I see three specific areas in which the HCNM has a future role to play: monitoring, preventive quiet diplomacy, and policy transfer.

The Ethnopolitical Encyclopaedia of Europe

23 April 2004 | Edited Volumes

This volume, published in 2004, presents a comprehensive and up-to-date picture of ethnopolitics in Europe, detailing...

Can Forced Population Transfers Resolve Self-determination Conflicts?

1 March 2004 | Journal Articles

In how far can ethnic cleansing and its consequences contribute to the internal stability and external security of the...

Ethnic Germans as a Language Minority in Central and Eastern Europe

11 November 2003 | Book Chapters

Co-authored with Karl Cordell and published in Minority Languages in Europe: Framework, Status, Prospects (co-ed. with...

Bilateral Ethnopolitics after the Cold War

1 June 2001 | Journal Articles

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,...

German Minorities in Europe

23 April 2000 | Edited Volumes

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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