Abstract
Very different conceptions of Europe have been designed and discussed in the social sciences. The boundaries of Europe according to the theory of Stein Rokkan (1980, 1999) include the whole of north, south, west and central Europe; in the East it excludes Russia and most of south-east Europe. Between the European core and the non-European territories to the East large peripheries are conceived. For Rokkan, Russia explicitly does not belong to Europe, and the same is true for Turkey. Russia is conceived as having built up its own civilization. For Rokkan, the former Ottoman possessions in the Balkans obviously are something like peripheries and their European status has to be questioned.
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© 2013 Franz Rothenbacher
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Rothenbacher, F. (2013). Population and Territory. In: The Central and East European Population since 1850. The Societies of Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137273901_2
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