Special issue: Region, state and identity in Central and Eastern Europe

In: Regional and federal studies, Band 12, Heft 2, S. vii-ix : bibl(s), table(s), map(s)

Abstract

Examines divergent interpretations of national, regional, ethnic-minority, and "European" identities, and their implications for the future shape of the state in light of the creation of new states since 1989; 9 articles. Contents: Hungary: patterns of political conflict over territorial-administrative reform, by Brigid Fowler; Slovakia: an anthropological perspective on identity and regional reform, by Alexandra Bitusíková; Catching up with "Europe"? constitutional debates on the territorial-administrative model in independent Ukraine, by Kataryna Wolczuk; Narva region within the Estonian Republic: from autonomism to accommodation? by David J. Smith; Upper Silesia: rebirth of a regional identity in Poland, by Luiza Bialasiewicz; Poland's Eastern borderlands: political transition and the "ethnic question", by Marzena Kisielowska-Lipman; Transcarpathia: peripheral region at the "Centre of Europe", by Judy Batt; Reinventing Banat, by Judy Batt; Conclusion: identities, regions and Europe, by Kataryna Wolczuk.