A journal dedicated to examining contemporary ethnic and national problems in Europe.
http://www.uni-koeln.de/phil-fak/soeg/ethnos
ETHNOS-NATION is issuing a call for both PAPERS and SUBSCRIBERS.
Topics can include anything that fits under the rubric of contemporary ethnic and national problems in Europe. The journal appears once a year and also includes BOOK REVIEWS and CONFERENCE REPORTS. Articles are published in GERMAN or ENGLISH.
INQUIRIES about or SUGGESTIONS for papers should be sent to:
Ethnos-Nation
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Verlag Wissenschaft und Politik
Helker Pflug
Huhnsgasse 39-4150676 Koeln / Germany
Phone/Fax: (+49 221) 21 49
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mailto:verhoeven@uni-koeln.de
EDITORIAL BOARD
Fikret Adanir (Universitaet Bochum)
Manfred Alexander (Universitaet zu Koeln)
Peter Alter (Universitaet Duisburg)
Gerhard Brunn (Universitaet Siegen)
Georg Brunner (Universitaet zu Koeln)
Janos Hauszmann (Universitaet Koeln)
Andreas Kappeler (Universitaet Wien)
Gerhard Simon (Universitaet Koeln)
Stefan Troebst (European Centre for Minority Issues, Flensburg)
EDITORS
Christopher P. Storck
Hermann-Josef Verhoeven
Ingo Mannteufel
The LAST ISSUE (vol. 5, 1997) features articles on The Situation of Orthodoxy in Contemporary Ukraine by Frank E. Sysyn (Edmonton); The Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church as a Factor of Ukrainian Nationhood by Benedikt Salmon (Cologne); Devolution in Scottland by Richard J. Finlay (Strathclyde); Devolution in Wales by Knut Diekmann (Brussels); Minorities in the German-Danish Border Region by Jorgen Kuehl (Dannewerk); The Legal Position of Minorities in Hungary by Jeno Kaltenbach (Budapest); The Crisis in Chechnya by Andrei G. Zdravomyslov (Moscow); Nation and Nationalism in Lithuania by Barbara Christophe (Frankfurt/M.).
EDITORIAL
The collapse of the Soviet Union and the disintegration of Yugoslavia drew the attention of the public to the explosive force of nationalism and national movements. Small ethnic groups who had not been widely known demanded their own national states. Ethnic minorities are becoming a key subject in the international relations of Eastern European countries, e.g. the Hungarians in Romania, Serbia and Slovakia, the Poles in Lithuania and Belarus, the Russians in Estonia, Latvia and the Ukraine, the Albanians in Serbia and Macedonia and the Germans in Russia, Kazakhstan, Poland and the CzechRepublic. The national renaissance in Eastern and Central Europe after the collapse of the communist system surprised not only the public and statesmen, but also specialists and scholars. The traditional concentration on capitals and titular nations led to a lack of information about the restive ethnic groups, that can only now gradually be corrected. Some experts recognized the explosive force of national movements in Eastern Europe a long time ago, but they rarely attracted a wide interest in their research results.
It would be wrong to see the failure of Marxism-Leninism as the only explanation for the renaissance of national movements in Eastern Europe.
The importance of national and regional movements has increased in Western Europe for some decades. Although there were no serious military confrontations like the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia and the war between Armenia and Azerbaijan, ethnic minorities destabilized many traditional national states in Western Europe. Some of them like the Basques, the Corsican and the Northern Irish use violence and terror , but democratic methods dominate among the Catalans, Galicians, Bretons, South Tyroleans, Alsatians, Scotts and Welsh. The journal "Ethnos-Nation" tries to counteract this lack of information. The different problems and concerns of ethnic groups are shown from various points of view, even when these opinions cannot be verified. Without such a self-description of the different nationalistic movements, the way we characterize them would be incomplete. The journal takes the whole Europe in account. At the moment the interethnic conflicts in Eastern and Central Europe are in the center of interest, but a comparison with Western Europe will assist in tracking down general causes and phenomenons. Information and analyses of problems of ethnic minorities are particularly important for unification processes in Europe.
Christopher P. Storck
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