Chapter 1 Minority Languages in Europe: An Introduction to the Current Debate

Chapter 2 When a Language is ‘Just Symbolic’: Reconsidering the Significance of Language to the Politics of Identity

Chapter 3 Devising an Adequate System of Minority Protection in the Area of Language Rights

Chapter 4 Facilitating or Generating Linguistic Diversity: The European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages

Chapter 5 The Practitioner’s Perspective: Minority Languages and Linguistic Minorities in the Work of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities

Chapter 6 Ethnic Germans as a Language Minority in Central and Eastern Europe: Legislative and Policy Frameworks in Poland, Hungary and Romania

Chapter 7 Baltic National Minorities in a Transitional Setting

Chapter 8 Politics and Language Rights: A Case Study of Language Politics in Croatia

Chapter 9 ‘Minor’ Needs or The Ambiguous Power of Translation

Chapter 11 The Changing Status of Romani in Europe

Chapter 12 Language, Nationalism and Democracy in Europe