Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 1
Subject: New book: Ethnic Politics after Communism
From: "Jennifer A Longley" <jal225@cornell.edu>
Cornell University Press is announcing a recent publication of interest. The book, entitled “Ethnic Politics after Communism” is an edited collection by Zoltan Barany and Robert G. Moser
Included below is information on the book. If there are any questions or if you would like a copy of a promotional flyer, please feel free to contact me at jal225@cornell.edu. Also, please feel free to take a look at our website, http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu for more titles of interest.
Jen Longley
Cornell University Press
New from Cornell University Press
Ethnic Politics after Communism
Zoltan Barany and Robert G. Moser (Editors)
Cornell University Press
Cloth ISBN 0-8014-4377-6 $55.00 £28.95 €45.50
Paper ISBN 0-8014-7276-8 $19.95 £10.50 €16.50
http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu
The Soviet Union encompassed dozens of nationalities and ethnicities, and in the wake of its collapse, the politics of ethnicity within its former borders and throughout Eastern Europe have undergone tremendous changes. In this book, Zoltan Barany and Robert G. Moser bring together eminent scholars whose theoretically diverse and empirically rich research examines various facets of ethnicity in postcommunist Europe and Eurasia: ethnic identity and culture, mobilization, parties and voting, conflict, and ethnic migration.
The contributors consider how ethnic forces have influenced political outcomes that range from voting to violence and protest mobilization to language acquisition. Conversely, each chapter demonstrates that political behavior itself has an impact on the forms and strength of ethnic identity. Thus, ethnicity is deemed to be a contested, malleable, and constructed force rather than a static characteristic inherent in the attributes of groups and individuals with a common religion, race, or national origin.