The twentieth century saw the emergence of new states shaped on the classic nation-state model. How has this model been moulded and implemented? What have been the implications for minorities in these new nation-states? And how have minorities responded to nationalising processes? Following a discussion by Rogers Brubaker of his concept of nationalising state, contributions to this volume examine the dynamic relations between national minorities and nation-states established in the course of the last century, including Ukraine, Moldova, Turkey, Malaysia and Israel. This book's original theoretical framework and comparative approach offer a new understanding of the complex interactions between the formulation of a state identity and the aspirations of those who do not fit in the proclaimed core nation. In light of recent developments in ‒ notably ‒ Ukraine and Israel, this book is essential reading for all those interested in the rights and protection of national minorities and, more broadly, in the debates over the definition of the polity in a tense environment.
contents
List of Figures and Tables
List of Abbreviations
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Recurrent Processes in Different Contexts
Julien Danero Iglesias, Nenad Stojanović, Sharon Weinblum 1
Chapter One: Nationalising States Revisited – Projects and Processes
of Nationalisation in Post-Soviet States
Rogers Brubaker 11
Chapter Two: Against the Nation – Moldovan Political Discourse
after the 2009 ‘Revolution’
Julien Danero Iglesias 39
Chapter Three: Inventing the Ukrainian Nation – Identity Building
Between Dichotomies
Doris Wydra 59
Chapter Four: Group Empowerment and Cross-Ethnic Dialogue –
Integration within the Polish National State
Magdalena Dembinska 79
Chapter Five: Majority as Minority – a Comparative Case of
Autochthonous Slavs in Lithuania and Hungarians in Slovakia
after the Second World War
Hanna Vasilevich 99
Chapter Six: Nationalising States and Nationalising Policies in
Southeast Asia – Malaysia and Indonesia
Karolina Prasad 123
Chapter Seven: Nationalising Discourse Versus Minorities’ Political
Demands – the Case of the Palestinian Minority of Israel
Sharon Weinblum 149
Chapter Eight: The legacy of the Nation-State Building Process –
Minority Politics in Greece and Turkey
Fulya Memisoglu 169
Chapter Nine: Whose Mobilisation? An Ontological Primer on the
Mobilisation of National Minorities
Christina Isabel Zuber 191
Chapter Ten: Ethnicity and Strategic Voting in the 1998 Ukrainian
Elections
Julian Bernauer 209
Chapter Eleven: On Fissions and Fusions of Ethnic Minority Parties
Edina Szöcsik and Daniel Bochsler 231
Conclusion: What’s in a Comparison? Some Remarks About the
Analysis of Recurrent Processes
Antoine Roger 255
Index 269
Julien Danero Iglesias (PhD in Political Science, Université libre de Bruxelles) is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Political Science at the Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. He has interests in nationalism and minority studies, with a focus on Central and Eastern Europe. His current work focuses on nationalism in the Republic of Moldova and on Romanian minorities outside of the European Union. He recently published in Nationalities Papers, Mots and Revues d'Etudes comparatives Est-Ouest.
Nenad Stojanović (PhD in Political Science, Zurich) is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Democracy Studies in Aarau (ZDA), Switzerland, and an Assistant Lecturer at the universities of Zurich, Lausanne and Geneva. He has research interests in comparative politics, political theory and Swiss politics, with a focus on prospects for democracy in multicultural societies. His current work is on challenges of direct democracy in multilingual societies. Recent publications have appeared in Representation, Politique et Sociétés, Transitions, Ratio Juris, and Nations and Nationalism.
Sharon Weinblum (PhD in Social and Political Sciences, Université libre de Bruxelles) is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Oxford. Her work focuses on different aspects of Israeli democracy, including the tension between security and democracy, and the status of non-Jewish populations in the country. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in, among others, Politique et Sociétés, Perspectives on European Politics and Society and Constellations.