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Introduction: Nationality/Ethnic Settlement Patterns and Political Behavior in East Central Europe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Charles Z. Jokay
Charles Z. Jokay*
Affiliation:
Resources Development Foundation, Budapest and Indianapolis, Indiana, IN
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Abstract

Western experts claim that the end of the Warsaw Pact and the artificial stability it provided, together with what are routinely called “traditional ethnic animosities,” are the causes of continual and inevitable clashes between states in East Central Europe. This area, a triangle formed by the Adriatic, Baltic, and Black Seas, covers the Western border area of the former Soviet Union, and all of Poland, ex-Yugoslavia, Hungary, Romania, ex-Czechoslovakia and the eastern territories of Germany. This issue of Nationalities Papers is dedicated to the Hungarian ethnic minorities of East Central Europe, in part to examine the validity of the “traditional ethnic animosity” thesis. Spread among seven states, roughly three and a half to four million souls, they constitute the largest diaspora in Europe, and, in relative terms, are more numerous in states around Hungary than the ethnic Russians outside of the Russian Federation on the territory of the former Soviet Union.

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Nationalities Papers , Volume 24 , Issue 3 , September 1996 , pp. 377 - 388
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Copyright © 1996 Association for the Study of Nationalities of Eastern Europe and ex-USSR, Inc. 

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