National Minorities and the European Nation-States System

The collapse of Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, and the Soviet Union has resulted in a proliferation of discontented national minorities who have emerged as a major focus of international relations in post-Cold War Europe. Examining these issues against the backdrop of relevant treaties, diplomatic negotiations, and international practices, Jennifer Jackson Preece's powerful new study presents the definitive assessment of the fate of national minorities in the European states system.

Jennifer Jackson Preece is a Lecturer on Nationalism in Europe at the European Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science. She was awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship for doctoral studies at Oxford University. Her doctoral dissertation, on which this publication is based, was awarded the Bapsybanoo Marchioness of Winchester Thesis Prize (for the best dissertation on human rights) by Oxford University in 1997.