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Part 1 Understanding the issues: new legal ramifications of the questionof national minorities, Ivan Gyurcsik. Part 2 The problems at hand - casestudies: success in the Balkans? a case study of ethnic relations in theRepublic of Macedonia, Robert W. Mickey and Adam Smith Albion; paradox offreedom - the "Jewish question" in post-communist east central Europe, AndreW.M. Gerritts; democracy building in ethnically diverse societies - the casesof Bulgaria and Romania, Ivanka Nedeva; the problem of ethnic minority rightsprotection in the newly independent states, Alexander A. Konovalov and DmitriEvstafiev; can decentralization solve Russia's ethnic problems?, Nicolai N.Petro. Part 3 The role of effective confidence-and-security-buildingmeasures: a call for confidence-building measures in eastern Europe, AndrzejKarkoszka; the failure to recognize minority rights and claims - politicalviolence/terrorism in the east and west, Richard Allan. Part 4 Internationalnorms and responses to the minority question: the international community andforms of intervention in the field of minority rights protection, Koen Koch;codification of minority rights, Istvan Ijgyarto.