David Smith holds the Alec Nove Chair in Russian and East European Studies at the University of Glasgow, UK. He has written extensively on issues of ethnopolitics, minority activism and conflict regulation in Central and Eastern Europe, from both a historical and a contemporary perspective.

• Chapter 1: Introduction. By David J. Smith, Ivan Dodovski.- Chapter 2: The Role of Law and Non-Territorial Autonomy Arrangements in the Implementation of Linguistic Rights: A Comparative Perspective. By Vladimir Đurić, Vasilije Marković.- Chapter 3: ‘Living the Same Full Life’? A Critical Assessment of Non-Territorial Autonomy Practice in the Vojvodina and Sápmi Contexts. By David J. Smith.- Chapter 4: The Dilemma of Responsibility: The Role of Kin-States and Nation-States in Implementing Non-Territorial Autonomy Models to Realise Minorities’ Linguistic, Cultural and Educational Rights. By Martin Klatt.- Chapter 5: The Evanescence of Autonomy for Minority Groups: The Hungarian Minority in Romania and the Complex Nexus of Dependence. By Andreea Udrea.- Chapter 6: Illiberal Forms of Non-Territorial Autonomy: The Sudeten German Party Case. By Oskar Mulej.- Chapter 7: The Implications of Administrative Decentralisation on the Development of Non-Territorial Autonomy Practices: The Case of Romania. By Valentina Cornea, Mirela Paula Costache, Andreea Elena Matic.- Chapter 8: Linguistic Rights in Greece: Crossing Through Territorial and Non-Territorial Arrangements. By Konstantinos Tsitselikis.- Chapter 9: Critical Analysis of the Linguistic Rights Strategies of the Hungarian National Minority Council in Serbia. By Katinka Beretka.- Chapter 10: Non-Territorial Autonomy and Minority Rights: Impact of the Self-Governing National Communities on Minority Protection in Slovenia. By Ljubica Djordjević- Chapter 11: Cultural Autonomy, Safe Haven or Window-Dressing? Institutions Maintained by Minority Self-Governments in Hungary. By Balázs Dobos.- Chapter 12: Can Non-Territorial Autonomy Help to Enforce the Linguistic, Cultural and Educational Rights of the Roma?. By Natalija Shikova, Immaculada Colomina Limonero.