Ethnic Relations in Mixed Communities in Romania after 1989
Ethnic Relations in Mixed Communities in Romania after 1989

Summary/Abstract: Ethnic conditionality, along with democratisation and marketisation, has been a salient factor of the post-communist transition in Romania. It has concerned ethnically mixed communities as well as inter-state relations, and covers the whole period since 1989. Actors, strategies and outcomes are to be differentiated, because ethnic matters are greatly dependent on internal and external contexts. The changing contexts in Romania turned it from a place of bloody ethnic conflict in March 1990, even before such conflict turned violent in Yugoslavia, to a level of “banal” everyday nationalism, with the overall characteristic of peaceful coexistence between ethnicities.

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