THE PARIS PEACE CONFERENCE AND THE QUESTION OF MINORITY RIGHTS

In: Peace & change: PC ; a journal of peace research, Band 21, Heft 3, S. 273-288

Abstract

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.