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CustomerServicesDepartment,MacmillanDistributionLtd,Houndmills,Basingstoke,Hampshire RG216XS,England The Protection of Minorities in the Wider Europe Editedby Marc Weller Denika Blacklock and Katherine Nobbs Publishedundertheauspicesofthe EuropeanCentreforMinority Issues,Flensburg,Germany,andtheCentrefor InternationalConstitutionalStudiesatthe UniversityofCambridge Editorialmatterandselection©MarcWeller,DenikaBlacklockand KatherineNobbs2008 Individualchapters©contributors2008 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2008 978-0-230-00129-9 Allrightsreserved.Noreproduction,copyortransmissionofthis publicationmaybemadewithoutwrittenpermission. Noportionofthispublicationmaybereproduced,copiedortransmitted savewithwrittenpermissionorinaccordancewiththeprovisionsofthe Copyright,DesignsandPatentsAct1988,orunderthetermsofany licencepermittinglimitedcopyingissuedbytheCopyrightLicensing Agency,SaffronHouse,6-10KirbyStreet,LondonEC1N8TS. 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Weller,M.(Marc) JV7590.P772008 323.14 dc22 2008027565 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 09 08 Contents NotesontheContributors vii Preface x Introduction:TheOutlookfortheProtectionof MinoritiesintheWiderEurope 1 MarcWeller PartI TheEvolutionofMinorityGovernanceinEurope 1 TheEvolvingBasisofEuropeanNormsofMinorityRights:Rights toCulture,ParticipationandAutonomy 11 WillKymlicka 2 CollectiveRightsintheContextofEUAccession 42 Hans-JoachimHeintze 3 ForgingTerritorialCohesioninDiversity:AreNationalMinorities PromotingFourth-LevelIntegration? 54 ToveH.Malloy PartII EuropeanMechanismsfortheManagement ofMinority–MajorityRelations 4 ARemainingShareoraNewPart?TheEU’sRolevis-à-vis MinoritiesaftertheEnlargementDecade 95 GabrielvonToggenburg 5 TheEUandtheManagementofEthnicConflict 128 StefanWolffandAnnemariePeenRodt 6 TheEnlargementoftheEuropeanUnionandtheOSCE HighCommissioneronNationalMinorities 154 KrzysztofDrzewicki 7 TheFutureofMinorityIssuesintheCouncilofEuropeandthe OrganizationforSecurityandCooperationinEurope 171 RainerHofmann v vi Contents PartIII Minority–MajorityRelationsinPractice inanEnlargedEU 8 MinorityProtectioninCentralEuropeandAccessiontotheEU 209 WojciechSadurski 9 EnlargementandInterethnicPower-SharingArrangementsin CentralandEasternEurope 232 MartinBrusis 10 TheEuropeanizationofMinority–MajorityRelationsinthe Greece–Turkey–CyprusTriangle 251 NathalieTocci 11 TheEffectiveProtectionofMinoritiesintheWider Europe:CounterbalancingtheSecurityTrack 276 KatherineNobbs Index 289 Notes on the Contributors DenikaBlacklockisProgrammeAnalystwiththeUnitedNationsDevelop- ment Programme in Kosovo. She holds a degree in International Conflict Analysis from the University of Kent, Canterbury. Previously, she worked with the European Centre for Minority Issues and the Slovak Institute for InternationalStudies.Hertechnicalandacademicworktodatehasfocused onthesituationofminoritiesintransitionalandpost-conflictcountries,with a special interest in institutional reform. Born and raised in Canada, she currentlyresidesinKosovo. MartinBrusisisResearchFellowattheCentreforAppliedPolicyResearch, Ludwig-MaximilianUniversityMunich.From1992to1994hewasResearch Assistant in a project on ‘Institutionalization of Democratic Structures in Post-socialistSocieties’attheInstituteofEasternEuropeanAffairs,FUBerlin. Currently,thefocusofhisworkisonminorityissuesinCentralandEastern Europe and on the integration of Central and Eastern European countries intotheEuropeanUnion. KrzysztofDrzewickiisSeniorLegalAdvisertotheOSCEHighCommissioner on National Minorities. He holds an LLD in International Public Law, and servedasProfessoroftheUniversityofGdan´´sk,Poland(onleavesince1997). He has written more than 90 scholarly contributions on the international protectionofhumanrightsandinternationalhumanitarianlaw. Hans-Joachim Heintze is Senior Researcher and Associate at the Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict at the Ruhr-Universität BochumandPresidentoftheInternationalAssociationfortheStudyofthe WorldRefugeeProblem(AWR).Hehastaughtandlecturedonhumanitarian, humanrightsandinternationallawaroundtheworld,andistheauthorof manyspecializedcontributionsonminorityrights. Rainer Hofmann is Professor of International Law at the Johann Wolf- gang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and Director of the Walther-Schücking-InstituteforInternationalLawattheUniversityofKiel, Germany.HeisalsotheformerPresidentoftheAdvisoryCommitteeofthe Council of Europe Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities;aMemberoftheBoardoftheEuropeanCentreforMinorityIssues, Flensburg,Germany;andaMemberoftheAcademicAdvisoryBoardonInter- nationalLawtotheGermanForeignMinistry.Hehaspublishedextensively inthefieldofhumanandminorityrights. vii viii NotesontheContributors Will Kymlicka is currently Canada Research Chair in Political Philosophy at Queen’s University in Canada, and a visiting Professor in the National- ismStudiesprogrammeattheCentralEuropeanUniversityinBudapest.His works have been translated into 30 languages. Since 2004 he has served as PresidentoftheAmericanSocietyforPoliticalandLegalPhilosophy. Tove H. Malloy is Senior Researcher at the Institute for Minority Rights at theEuropeanAcademyinBolzen/Bolzano. Sheisanexpertinpoliticalsys- tem design, and wrote her PhD thesis on human and minority rights in Europe.Previously,shetaughtpartoftheEuropeanMastersDegreeinHuman RightsandDemocratizationinVenice.Sheisalsoanexperienceddiplomatic practitioner. KatherineNobbsisResearchAssociateandPublicationsCoordinatoratthe European Centre for Minority Issues in Flensburg, Germany. She holds an MPhilinInternationalRelationsfromtheUniversityofCambridge,aBAin PoliticsfromtheUniversityofNottinghamandaGraduateDiplomainLaw fromtheCollegeofLaw,Bloomsbury. AnnemariePeenRodtisResearchAssociateandadoctoralcandidateatNot- tinghamUniversity,specializinginEUCommonForeignandSecurityPolicy towardsconflictpreventionintheWesternBalkansandtheSouthCaucasus. ShehasworkedfortheHighRepresentativeoftheInternationalCommunity in Peace Implementation in Bosnia-Herzegovina, in the Political Section of theRoyalDanishEmbassyinSarajevoandwiththeEuropeanCommission FrameworkSixProjectonHumanandMinorityRightsintheLifeCyclesof EthnicConflicts. Wojciech Sadurski is Professor of Legal Philosophy in the Faculty of Law at the University of Sydney (currently on leave of absence), and Professor ofLegalTheoryintheDepartmentofLawattheEuropeanUniversityInsti- tute in Florence (since September 1999). His research interests include: the philosophy of law, especially moral dimensions of law; theories of rights; freedomofexpression;constitutionaltheoryandcomparativeconstitution- alism,notablypost-communistconstitutionallawandconstitutionaltheory; andconstitutionalaspectsofenlargementoftheEU. Nathalie Tocci is Marie Curie Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for AdvancedStudies,EuropeanUniversityInstitute,Florence.SheholdsaPhD in International Relations from the London School of Economics. Her pri- maryresearchexpertiseisontheenlargementoftheEU,Turkey,Cyprus–EU relationsandrelationswiththeCaucasus. Gabriel von Toggenburg is a Senior Researcher at the European Academy ofBolzano/BozenresponsibleforEuropeanintegrationandEuropeanCom- munityLawandformerPhDresearcherattheEuropeanUniversityInstitute, NotesontheContributors ix Florence. He currently heads the project PECEDE (Platform for an Enrich- ingCulturallyandEthnicallyDiverseEurope)whichfocusesinteraliaonthe relationshipbetweenEU/EClawandminorityprotection. MarcWellerisDirectoroftheEuropeanCentreforMinorityIssuesinFlens- burg, Germany. His writings mainly focus on conflict management, issues of international law and minority rights. He has acted as a legal adviser to several governments and organizations, and has been a member of inter- national peace processes. Dr Weller is a Reader in International Law at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of the Lauterpacht Research Cen- tre for International Law and Hughes Hall. He is also the Director of the Carnegie Project on Resolving Self-determination Disputes through Com- plex Power-sharing, and of the Cambridge Rockefeller Project on Restoring anInternationalConsensusoftheRulesGoverningtheUseofForce. Stefan Wolff is Professor of Political Science at the University of Notting- ham,UK,andSeniorNon-residentResearchAssociateattheEuropeanCentre for Minority Issues. He holds an MPhil in Political Theory from Magda- lene College, Cambridge, and a PhD in Political Science from the London School of Economics. He has written extensively on ethnic conflict and conflict resolution. Published works include Ethnic Conflict: A Global Per- spective,andtheconflictpreventionhandbookPowerSharing,Self-governance and Participation in Public Life. He is also the founding editor of the journal Ethnopolitics.