Research Handbook on Minority Politics in the European Union

"This timely Research Handbook provides a multidisciplinary overview of research on ethno-cultural minority issues at the supranational level of the EU. It delivers a state-of-the-art review of the EU's approaches to development and institutional implementation of minority policies from the Treaty of Rome until today. Through critical analyses, this Research Handbook addresses minority politics from the perspectives of politicization and depoliticization of minority rights, anti-discrimination, case law, cultural and linguistic diversity protection, cohesion and regional development as well as enlargement and external action. Chapters also focus on policy areas that indirectly affect the lives of ethno-cultural minorities as well as non-policy approaches emanating from the tensions in the EU architecture and legal framework. Although the Handbook confirms the EU's ambivalence towards minority politics, it also offers new views on a policy area that is under pressure to become more flexible. Offering an innovative approach in analysing policy, legislative and institutional developments, this Research Handbook will be an ideal read for students and scholars interested in European politics and public policy. Its critical insights on European policy will also make this a beneficial read to policy-makers"-- Provided by publisher Front Matter Copyright Contents Figures Tables Contributors 1. Introduction to the Research Handbook on Minority Politics in the European Union PART I THE POLITICS OF THE ACQUIS COMMUNAUTAIRE 2. The Treaties and minority rights 3. Fundamental rights and racial and cultural minorities in the EU: carving out a mandate to protect ‘Others’ 4. Fundamental rights and non-EU minorities: from an ambiguous concept to an integrated society? 5. The Court of Justice of the European Union and ‘minorities’ 6. European Union law and international minority rights law PART II THE POLITICS OF DECISION-MAKING AND POLICY-MAKING 7. The European Parliament, the Council and the European Council 8. The European Commission and minority rights 9. Enlargement and minority politics: the unravelling of the EU’s transformative power? 10. The democratization efforts PART III THE POLITICS OF DIVERSITY 11. Linguistic diversity and language rights 12. The cultural policy of the European Union 13. European Union Roma policy: under construction PART IV THE POLITICS OF COHESION 14. European Union regional policy and national minorities 15. Between dynamic practice and normative limits: minorities and debordering processes in the European Union 16. Special territories in the European Union 17. Problem territories and internal peace: minority nations and ‘internal enlargement’ in the European Union PART V THE POLITICS OF EXTERNAL ACTION 18. Minority rights and European Union conditionality in the Western Balkans: from external to internal politics? 19. The ‘near abroad’: the European Union, minority rights and the Eastern neighbourhood 20. The European Union and global development cooperation: promoting minority rights? Index This timely Research Handbook provides a multidisciplinary overview of research on ethno-cultural minority issues at the supranational level of the EU. It delivers a state-of-the-art review of the EU's approaches to development and institutional implementation of minority policies from the Treaty of Rome until today.Through critical analyses, this Research Handbook addresses minority politics from the perspectives of politicization and depoliticization of minority rights, anti-discrimination, case law, cultural and linguistic diversity protection, cohesion and regional development as well as enlargement and external action. Chapters also focus on policy areas that indirectly affect the lives of ethno-cultural minorities as well as non-policy approaches emanating from the tensions in the EU architecture and legal framework. Although the Research Handbook confirms the EU's ambivalence towards minority politics, it also offers new views on a policy area that is under pressure to become more flexible.Offering an innovative approach in analysing policy, legislative and institutional developments, this Research Handbook will be an ideal read for students and scholars interested in European politics and public policy. Its critical insights on European policy will also make this a beneficial read to policy-makers.