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Details for article 45 of 144 found articles
| Title: |
Democratization and European standards of National minority protection: Polish issues |
| Author: |
Sanford, George |
| Appeared in: |
Democratization |
| Paging: | Volume 4 (1997) nr. 3 pages 45-68 |
| Year: |
1997 |
| Contents: |
This article considers how a nationally homogeneous state in East-Central Europe, Poland, which in this respect is comparable to Hungary and the Czech Republic, has responded to a major post-1989 challenge - that of meeting European standards of national minority protection within a civic-territorial model of democracy. The forced assimilation and repression of such minorities as the Ukrainians and the Belarusans in prewar and communist Poland is now being handled within a common pan-European perspective; this offers a model for the resolution of ethnic-communal conflicts in the remainder of the highly differentiated post-communist space. Although Poland's national minorities are now very small, historical memories of bad integral nationalist practice has induced post-1989 governments to allay external criticism of alleged ethno-nationalism by meeting European standards in this area as a key step towards eventual EU membership. The dual identity, linguistic, cultural and autonomy-seeking characteristics of its currently non-state-destroying (that is, non-secessionist) minorities points to comparisons with such groups as the Welsh or the Bretons. It argues for the redefinition of 'normal' as against more publicized aggressive forms of East European nationalism. |
| Publisher: |
Routledge |
| Source file: |
Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften |
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