Additional
Information: Sites dealing with national minorities, multinational states, and the problems they face.
National Minorities Sites:
Irredentism and Ethnic Nationalism Irredentism and Ethnic Nationalism: Essay by Dimostenis Yagcioglu arguing that irredentism (i.e. conflict over borders) is an inevitable tendency of ethnic nationalism. (National Minorities) http://www.geocities.com/Athens/8945/irre.html
OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities: Office established in 1992 to identify and seek early resolution of ethnic tensions that might endanger peace, stability or friendly relations between OSCE participating states. (National Minorities) http://www.osce.org/hcnm/
Consortium of Minority Resources (COMIR) Consortium of Minority Resources (COMIR): Internet-based cooperative project that aims at promoting the free flow of information and dialogue in the field of ethnic relations, multicultural politics and minority rights. Aims to establish a clearinghouse of information and activities relevant to E (National Minorities) http://lgi.osi.hu/comir/
The National Question and the Class Struggle The National Question and the Class Struggle: Thesis by Ber Borochov (1881-1917) arguing that national liberation is a necessary component of the class struggle. (National Minorities) http://www.angelfire.com/il2/borochov/class.html
Ethnicity and Nationalism: Anthropological Perspectives Ethnicity and Nationalism: Anthropological Perspectives: Excerpt from a monograph by Thomas Hylland Eriksen, exploring the relationships between ethnicity, race, nationality, and class. (National Minorities) http://www.uio.no/~geirthe/Ethnicity.html
MINELRES MINELRES: Directory of resources on minority human rights, inter-ethnic conflicts, ethnic policies, and related problems of the transition period in Eastern and Central Europe. (National Minorities) http://www.arts.uwaterloo.ca/MINELRES/
Federal Union of European Nationalities - F.U.E.N. Federal Union of European Nationalities - F.U.E.N.: A union of organizations representing ethnic groups with the goal of preserving their identity, language, culture and history. (National Minorities) http://www.fuen.org/
The MinMaj Rule The MinMaj Rule: Argues that wars erupt whenever and wherever a country has a minority of the same ethnicity as the majority in a neighboring country. (National Minorities) http://samvak.tripod.com/pp18.html