Minorities, Justice and Security in Post-Communist Europe: Continuing the Debate with Will Kymlicka
Publisher: Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe Volume: 9 pages, pdf Description: Will Kymlicka’s excellent article, reply and conclusion in Can Liberal Pluralism be Exported? raise, in his own words, “many profound and complex issues” (Kymlicka: 2001: 347) and I will, in turn, briefly raise questions about the main points made by him. These are about the role of elites in defining and manipulating minority claims, the problem of intolerant minorities, and democratic consolidation in relation to minority rights. I will discuss his point about territorial autonomy in the context of the work of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities.