New Nation-States and National Minorities

This book offers innovative perspectives on the interaction between national minorities and newly established nation-states. The book opens with an essay by Rogers Brubaker (University of California, Los Angeles) outlining his nationalizing state concept. Subsequent essays develop Brubaker's model through case studies in Moldova, Ukraine, Turkey, Malaysia, and Israel. These contributions shed light on common trends relating to state-building processes, citizenship, rights of national minorities, and their mobilization. The text's original theoretical framework, combined with a comparative approach, upsets common understandings of these critical issues.

Julien Danero Iglesias (PhD in Political Science, Universite libre de Bruxelles) is a Teaching and Research Assistant in Political Science at the Universite 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.

Nenad Stojanovic (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 Societes, Transitions, Ratio Juris, and Nations and Nationalism.

Sharon Weinblum (PhD in Political Science, Universite libre de Bruxelles) is a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard University and an associate member of the Universite libre de Bruxelles. Her research interests include security studies, discourse theory, democracy and ethnic studies. Her previous work explored the security-democracy nexus in the Israeli parliamentary discourse. Her current research focuses on the political discourse on non-Jewish migrations in Israel. She recently published in Revue Internationale de Politique Comparee, Interdisciplinary Political Studies, and Politique et Societes.