Region, State and Identity in Central and Eastern Europe

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Judy Batt, Kataryna Wolczuk
Routledge, Jan 11, 2013 - Political Science - 232 pages
The papers that comprise this collection examine the role of competing European, national, ethnic and regional identities over the introduction of new regional levels of government in the former Soviet and now Central and Eastern European states.
 

Contents

Region State and Identity in Central and Eastern Europe
1
Patterns of Political Conflict over TerritorialAdministrative Reform
15
An Anthropological Perspective on Identity and Regional Reform
41
Catching up with Europe? Constitutional Debates on the TerritorialAdministrative Model in Independent Ukraine
65
From Autonomism to Accommodation?
89
Rebirth of a Regional Identity in Poland
111
Political Transition and the Ethnic Question
133
Peripheral Region at the Centre of Europe
155
Reinventing Banat
178
Identities Regions and Europe
203
Abstracts
214
Notes on Contributors
217
Index
218
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