New Nation-States and National Minorities

Julien Danero Iglesias (PhD in Political Science, Université libre de Bruxelles) is a Postdoctoral Researcher in Political Science at the Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. He has interests in nationalism and minority studies, with a focus on Central and Eastern Europe. His current work focuses on nationalism in the Republic of Moldova and on Romanian minorities outside of the European Union. He recently published in Nationalities Papers, Mots and Revues d'Etudes comparatives Est-Ouest. Nenad Stojanovic (PhD in Political Science, Zurich) is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Democracy Studies in Aarau (ZDA), Switzerland, and an Assistant Lecturer at the universities of Zurich, Lausanne and Geneva. He has research interests in comparative politics, political theory and Swiss politics, with a focus on prospects for democracy in multicultural societies. His current work is on challenges of direct democracy in multilingual societies. Recent publications have appeared in Representation, Politique et Sociétés, Transitions, Ratio Juris, and Nations and Nationalism. Sharon Weinblum (PhD in Social and Political Sciences, Université libre de Bruxelles) is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Oxford. Her work focuses on different aspects of Israeli democracy, including the tension between security and democracy, and the status of non-Jewish populations in the country. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in, among others, Politique et Sociétés, Perspectives on European Politics and Society and Constellations.