Can liberal pluralism be exported? : Western political theory and ethnic relations in Eastern Europe /

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Imprint:	New York : Oxford University Press, ©2001.
Description:	1 online resource (xvii, 439 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Minorities -- Civil rights -- Europe, Eastern. Minorities -- Civil rights -- Europe, Western. Liberalism -- Europe, Western. Pluralism. Ethnic relations. Liberalism. Minorities -- Civil rights. Pluralism. Politics and government Europe, Eastern -- Ethnic relations. Europe, Eastern -- Politics and government -- 20th century. Europe, Eastern. Europe, Western.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11186491

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Other authors / contributors:	Kymlicka, Will. Opalski, Magdalena.
ISBN:	9780191528910 0191528919 019924815X 9780199248155
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	Annotation Many post-communist countries in Central/Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union are being encouraged and indeed pressured by Western countries to improve their treatment of ethnic and national minorities, and to adopt Western models of minority rights. But what are these Western models, and will they work in Eastern Europe? In the first half of this volume, Will Kymlicka describes a model of 'liberal pluralism' which has gradually emerged in most Western democracies, and discusses whatwould be involved in adopting it in Eastern Europe. This is followed by 15 commentaries from people actively involved in minority rights issues in the region, as practitioners or academics, and by Kymlicka's reply. This volume will be of interest to anyone concerned with ethnic conflict in Eastern Europe, and with the more general question of whether Western liberal values can or should be promoted in the rest of the world.
Other form:	Print version: Can liberal pluralism be exported?. New York : Oxford University Press, ©2001 0199240639 9780199240630

Table of Contents:

Liberal pluralism and post-communism / George Schöpflin
Rethinking the state, minorities, and national security / Urszula Doroszewska
On the chances of ethnocultural justice in east central Europe / Tibor Várady
Nation-states and immigrant societies / Michael Walzer
New democracies in the old world / Boris Tsilevich
Some doubts about "ethnocultural justice" / Alexander Ossipov
Reflections on minority rights politics for east central European countries / Panayote Dimitras and Nafsika Papanikolatos
Territorial autonomy as a minority rights regime in post-communist countries / Pål Kolstø
Nation-building and beyond / János Kis
Ethnocultural justice in east European states and the case of the Czech Roma / Pavel Barša
Definitions and discourse: applying Kymlicka's models to Estonia and Latvia / Vello Pettai-- Universal thought, eastern facts: scrutinizing national minority rights in Romania / Gabriel Andreescu
Perspectives on a liberal-pluralist approach to ethnic minorities in Ukraine / Volodymyr Fesenko
Can Will Kymlicka be exported to Russia? / Magda Opalski
Nation-building, culture, and problems of ethnocultural identity in central Asia: the case of Uzbekistan / Aleksander Djumaev.

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