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Bosnia and Herzegovina: thinking beyond institution-building / Touquet, Heleen; Vermeersch, Peter

Vermeersch, Peter	Journal Article
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2008.

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This essay seeks to move beyond the traditional discussions on state change in Bosnia-Herzegovina by assessing the usefulness of shifting attention away from state- and institution-building efforts by domestic or international political elites and by focusing instead on the actions of local nonstate actors. We advocate a theoretical investigation into what might be gained from devoting new scholarly attention to identity-forming processes at the sidelines of governmental politics. We add empirical support to our argument by analyzing the work of a number of organizations in Bosnia that mobilize Bosnian citizens along nonethnic lines and construct alternative state-building narratives

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State-Building ; Bosnia and Herzegovina ; Institution-Building

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ID: 095282

Contesting Europe: strategies and legacies in Polish political competition / Vermeersch, Peter

Vermeersch, Peter	Journal Article
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2010.

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This essay explores positions on European integration in the campaigns of a number of mainstream Polish political parties in recent elections. It shows how contestations of the European Union have, to some extent, been driven by strategic considerations related to inter-party competition. In Poland's fluid party landscape, political actors have sometimes relied on Euroscepticism to create seemingly clear lines of division between themselves and their political competitors. Yet these Eurosceptic views interact with, and are therefore also constrained by, certain legacies: ideas on the relationship between Europe and Poland that are already part of the cultural context.

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European Union ; Poland ; Europe ; Polish Political Competition ; Polish Political Parties

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ID: 087816

National minorities and international change: being Ukrainian in contemporary Poland / Vermeersch, Peter

Vermeersch, Peter	Journal Article
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2009.

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This article explores the question of how the dynamic of interstate relations affects the domestic processes of minority mobilisation. It analyses Ukrainian minority activism in contemporary Poland against the background of the changing relations between Poland and Ukraine. The article argues that the influence of interstate relations on Ukrainian minority activism is more complex than a traditional view of national minority politics would lead us to presume. Starting from this case study, the article argues that there is a need for a contextual and process-oriented understanding of the categories commonly deployed in the study of minority politics in the region.

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National Minorities ; International Change ; Ukrainian ; Contemporary Poland ; Minority Mobilisation ; Relations - Poland - Ukraine ;
Minority Politics

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