Between a Rock and a Hard Place – Multi-ethnic Regions on the EU's New Eastern Frontier

An oft-noted paradox of the postcommunist revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) was the combination of the aspiration for "national self-determination" with the demand to "return to Europe": seeming to want to recover national sovereignty, only to relinquish it again. F...

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Published in:East European politics and societies 2001-10, Vol.15 (3), p.502-527
Main Author: Batt, Judy
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Cultural Pluralism
Eastern Europe
Ethnic Identity
Ethnic minorities
Ethnic Relations
EU enlargement
EU-Accession / EU-DEvelopment
Europe
European Union
Government/Political systems
Identity of Collectives
Multiculturalism & pluralism
Pluralism
Political Change
Political history
Politics
Post-communist societies
Post-Communist Transformation
Regionalism
Revolutions
Social Conflict
Social differentiation
Sociology of Politics
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Summary:An oft-noted paradox of the postcommunist revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) was the combination of the aspiration for "national self-determination" with the demand to "return to Europe": seeming to want to recover national sovereignty, only to relinquish it again. Freedom from Soviet domination meant the recovery of independent statehood, and states were understood as nation-states, the political expression of "the will of the people." In this sense, the aspiration to nation-statehood was fully in line with the European tradition that originated in the French Revolution, and thus represented a demand for inclusion in the mainstream of modern Europe. [...]
ISSN:0888-3254
1533-8371
DOI:10.1177/088832501766276254