Ethnopolitics in the New Europe

What makes some multiethnic states integrate and others descend into civil war? Ishiyama and Breuning extend traditional explantions centred on socioeconomic, cultural and historical factors to argue that the actions of ethnic segments - too often ignored - are also critical determinantsof policy outcomes. Applying a framework derived from comparative polictics and IR theory, the authors explore two sets of empirical cases: the emergence of new nationalism in old European democracies (the United Kingdom and Belgium), and the re-emergence of old nationalisms in several new democracies (the Baltic states, Moldova, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia).