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THE PARIS PEACE CONFERENCE AND THE QUESTION OF MINORITY RIGHTS
Author(s) -
Fink Carole
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
peace and change
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1468-0130
pISSN - 0149-0508
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0130.1996.tb00272.x
Subject(s) - persecution , politics , political science , subject (documents) , law , sociology , library science , computer science
The international protection of minorities is both a contemporary and a historical problem. During the past five years, new states have been formed, or reformed, from the Oder to the Caucasus. New minorities, suddenly created, have been subject to unfamiliar political, economic, cultural, and legal controls and have become vulnerable to persecution and spoliation, violence and expulsion. Seemingly dormant for the past half‐century, the minorities issue, which long destabilized the international history of Europe, has reemerged as one of the major challenges to those who study war and peace.