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Centre-right politics
Citizens (Spanish political party)
Citizenship
Coalition government
Conditionality
Constitutional amendment
Council of Europe
Council of the European Union
Directive (European Union)
Domestic policy
Eastern Bloc
Election law
Electoral reform
Enlargement of the European Union
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Europe
European Commission
European Convention on Human Rights
European Court of Human Rights
European Economic Community
European integration
European Parliament
European Union
European University Institute
Foreign policy
Foreign Policy Association
Global Policy
High Commissioner on National Minorities
Human Rights Watch
Institution
International law
International relations
Language policy
Latvia
Legislation
Liberalism
Liberalization
Member of the European Parliament
Member state
National Policy
Nationalization
NATO summit
Naturalization
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
Policy
Political action committee
Political alliance
Political campaign
Political capital
Political economy
Political psychology
Political science
Political spectrum
Politician
Politics
Proletarian internationalism
Public international law
Referendum
Right-wing politics
Slovak National Party (historical)
Slovakia
Transport and Communication (constituency)
Treaty
Treaty on European Union
Vice-President of the European Commission
Western European Union
World Politics
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- ISBN 9780691127712
- Weight: 425g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 23 Jul 2006
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This detailed account of ethnic minority politics explains when and how European institutions successfully used norms and incentives to shape domestic policy toward ethnic minorities and why those measures sometimes failed. Going beyond traditional analyses, Kelley examines the pivotal engagement by the European Union, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, and the Council for Europe in the creation of such policies. Following language, education, and citizenship issues during the 1990s in Latvia, Estonia, Slovakia, and Romania, she shows how the combination of membership conditionality and norm-based diplomacy was surprisingly effective at overcoming even significant domestic opposition. However, she also finds that diplomacy alone, without the offer of membership, was ineffective unless domestic opposition to the proposed policies was quite limited. As one of the first systematic analyses of political rather than economic conditionality, the book illustrates under what conditions and through what mechanisms institutions influenced domestic policy in the decade, preparing the way for the historic enlargement of the European Union.
This thoughtful and thorough discussion, based on case studies, quantitative analysis, and interviews with nearly one hundred policymakers and experts, tells an important story about how European organizations helped facilitate peaceful solutions to ethnic tensions--in sharp contrast to the ethnic bloodshed that occurred in the former Yugoslavia during this time. This book's simultaneous assessment of soft diplomacy and stricter conditionality advances a long overdue dialogue between proponents rational choice models and social constructivists. As political requirements increasingly become part of conditionality, it also provides keen policy insights for the strategic choices made by actors in international institutions.
Judith G. Kelley is Assistant Professor of Public Policy Studies and Political Science at Duke University.
