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FCO Areas of research interest coronavirus COVID 19 update May 2020 GOVUK
The proposed research is inspired by ongoing discussion of what is often called the the 'nationality' or 'minority' question in the former communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE): namely, how to integrate...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: University of Glasgow
The project addresses the question fully and the authors have the necessary expertise.
How in the space of a generation did the ethnographic map of Europe go from resembling a Pollock painting to looking like a Rothko? In other words: what ever happened to Europe's national minorities? Making Minorities Hi...
Funded by: AHRC
Lead research organisation: University of Leeds
The project does not address the question.
In 2009 the European Court of Human Rights ruled 14-3 that Bosnia-Herzegovina's election rules for its tripartite presidency, which allow only Bosniaks, Bosnian Croats, and Bosnian Serbs to stand for election, were discr...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: Queen's University Belfast
The project partially addresses the question and the authors have the necessary expertise.