Thematic library

The ENRI-East Thematic Library is a special section on our web site to provide with additional web-links, downloads, project findings and regional specific information for each of the projects four main cross-cutting research themes.

  • OEI Policy Issues online
    …is a new publication series of the Institute for East European Studies (OEI). Policy-oriented and non-technical, OEI Policy Issues online cover some current policy-relevant topics building on past and current research of the OEI.
    The current issue discusses the mobility of workers in the European Union in the context of the transitional arrangements for the new Member States of the Union.
  • FP7 Project EDUMIGROM
    ‘Ethnic Differences in Education and Diverging Prospects for Urban Youth in an Enlarged Europe’
    www.edumigrom.eu
  • ‘Ethnic Minorities in the European Union: An Overview‘ by Martin Kahanec, Anzelika Zaiceva, Klaus F. Zimmermann. IZA Discussion Paper No. 5397:
    http://www.iza.org
  • FP7 Project EUROIDENTITIES
    ‘The Evolution of European Identity: Using biographical methods to study the development of European identity’
    www.euroidentities.org
  • Information Exchange in Science and Technology between the European Research Area and Eastern European / Central Asian Countries (incrEAST)
    www.increast.eu
  • Ewa Ochman: „Municipalities and the Search for the Local Past. Fragmented Memory of the Red Army in Upper Silesia“, in: East European Politics and Societies, vol. 23, no. 3, 2009, pp. 392-420
    www.sagepub.com
  • The following “7 Rules of Nationalism” as well as the similarly formulated “7 Rules of Place Naming” are widely circulated in Internet and quoted in numerous “serious” reports in many languages. One can Google this phrase to find about 1 million entries containing it…It is unknown, who has first formulated them - we have found the earliest reference to the 1993 book (Daniel Heradstveit: „Ethnic conflicts and refugees in the former Soviet Union“, Oslo: Norwegian Refugee Council, 1993).We think this “codex” is a good tool to exercise one’s mind in the field of nationalism and ethnicity studies. Thus, it might be just a useful point of reference for ENRI-East experts and those interested in the topic.We quote it here in English from a text box that was quoted in
    Greg Hansen’s HUMANITARIAN ACTION IN THE CAUCASUS:
    A GUIDE FOR PRACTITIONERS (1998, the Brown University publishers)
    (http://www.reliefweb.int/library/documents/caucasus.pdf), where it was preceded wit the following introduction:

    “An aid worker whose activities regularly led him into discussions about the origins
    of conflicts in the Caucasus noted that these discussions frequently became mired in
    one-sided histories and mutually exclusive polemics on self-determination which,
    typically, were blind to the human consequences of ethnic nationalism as practiced in
    the last decade. He used the following device to reorient discussions to an awareness
    of the chauvinistic basis of many of the common arguments, and to shift the focus to their
    human costs.”

    The Seven Rules of Nationalism. A Beginner’s Guide to Ethnic Politics
    1. If an area was ours for 500 years and yours for 50 years, it should belong to us – you are merely occupiers.
    2. If an area was yours for 500 years and ours for 50 years, it should belong to us – borders must not be changed.
    3. If an area belonged to us 500 years ago but never since then, it should belong to us – it is the Cradle of our Nation.
    4. If a majority of our people live there, it must belong to us – they must enjoy the right of self-determination.
    5. If a minority of our people live there, it must belong to us – they must be protected against your oppression.
    6. All of the above rules apply to us but not to you.
    7. Our dream of greatness is Historical Necessity, yours is Fascism.