Tove H. Malloy, Ph.D. Director of the European Centre for Minority Issues (Flensburg, Germany) is a political theorist by background specializing in the political and legal aspects of national and ethnic minority rights in international law and international relations. She has published numerous articles and is the author of National Minority Rights in Europe (OUP, 2005).Joseph Marko, Ph.D. Dean and Professor (Faculty of Law, University of Graz), Head of the Institute for Minority Rights (EURAC), has published extensively on minority rights issues. His habilitation dissertation is Theory of State, Austrian and Comparative Constitutional Law, and Political Science (1994).

• Foreword Joseph Marko and Tove Malloy;Power-Sharing and Ethnic Conflict: The Consociational-Integrative Dichotomy and Beyond Carmen Kettley;The Rights of ‘Old’ versus ‘New’ Minorities Asbjorn Eide;‘Ethnic Cleansing’ and Genocide: Similarities and Distinctions William A. Schabas ;Ombudsmen and Similar Institutions for Protection against Racial and Ethnic Discrimination Andrea Krizsan; Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurship, Diversity and Competitiveness David Smallbone ;Political Participation of Minorities Rainer Hofmann; Shifts in the Multiple Justifications of Minority Protection Sia Spiliopoulou Akermark;The European Convention on Human Rights and Language Rights: Is the Glass Half Empty or Half Full? Roberta Medda-Windischer ;Defi ning the Indefi nable: A Defi nition of ‘Minority’ in EU Law Gulara Guliyeva ;The European Union and the Roma: An Analysis of Recent Institutional and Policy Developments Peter Vermeersch ;Index.