MINELRES: Fwd: New book: European Integration and its Effects on Minority Protection in South Eastern Europe
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Title: "European Integration and its Effects on Minority Protection in
South Eastern Europe"
Editors: Emma Lantschner, Joseph Marko, Antonija Petricusic
Publisher: Baden-Baden, 2008, Series of the European Academy of
Bolzano/Bozen (EURAC), Department "Minorities and Autonomies", Volume 11
(http://www.nomos-shop.de/productview.aspx?product=9324)
The thematic background of this publication was the observation that
after the collapse of multinational communist political regimes it was not
liberalism that had replaced communism as the legitimizing ideology in
the process of transformation from authoritarian to democratic political
regimes, but rather ethno-nationalism. Consequently, the subsequent wars
in Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo as well as the violent clashes
in 2001 in Macedonia were perceived as violent ethnic conflicts. In
addition, even without the presence of large-scale violence, minority
problems resulting from policies of discrimination and/or forced
assimilation had also been plaguing other countries in South Eastern
Europe, such as Albania, Bulgaria and Romania. Thus, by 1991 the European
Union had already established "effective minority protection" as a
requirement for recognition of the newly independent states and it also
included this criterion in the (in)famous Copenhagen criteria of 1993, in
particular as a political condition for full membership in the EU.
This publication provides a comparative and up-to-date analysis of
minority protection standards at the level of South East European
countries as well as at the European level. After seeking to identify a
developing common European standard of minority protection, it offers an
answer to the question of how minority protection contributes to
political as well as regional stability and to democratic
institution-building in South Eastern Europe. Furthermore, it attempts
to report whether the prospect of European integration and the EU's
minority protection conditionality have contributed to regime stability
and the democratic consolidation of these countries and whether minority
protection as a conditionality requirement for EU accession is
comprehensively being applied in the monitoring activities of the EU.
Finally, it investigates the question of what legal and social indicators
can be developed for future conflict prevention through early warning.
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