Bilateral Agreements and Their Role in Settling Ethnic Conflicts

Hans-Joachim Heintze

Chapter 11 in Managing and Settling Ethnic Conflicts, 2004, pp 189-205 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract One essential characteristic of the ethnic and political demography of Central and Eastern Europe is the fact that most states are host-states and kin-states at the same time; that is, they have and host external minorities. In some cases, this involves only a few thousand, mostly well-assimilated members of ethnic groups, such as the Hungarians in Croatia and Croats in Hungary, or Czechs in Poland and Poles in the Czech Republic. In other cases, however, numbers are much more substantial, reaching into the hundreds of thousands, occasionally even millions. This is, for example, the case with Russian minorities in the successor states of the former Soviet Union, with Hungarians in Romania and Slovakia, with Albanians in Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia, and with Germans in Poland and Russia. This variation in size is accompanied by differences in terms of whether the external minority is reciprocal between two given states, and the degree to which such reciprocity involves external minorities equal or unequal in numbers.

Date: 2004
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-137-07814-8_11

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