Conceptual and Methodological Issues Concerning Citizenship Rights of National Minorities

Abstract

The last decade of this millennium will be remembered not only as a time when nationalism once again asserted itself on the stage of history but also for the issue of national minorities. In their quest for freedom and statehood, national majorities in the post-communist world have not always been ready to accept minority groups as equal partners and treat them fairly. Therefore, intrinsically, the study of nationalism has involved the question of the treatment of national minorities.