Realising Linguistic, Cultural and Educational Rights Through Non-Territorial Autonomy - Softcover

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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. 

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This open access book assesses Non-Territorial Autonomy (NTA) in terms of its practical capacity to support the linguistic, cultural, and educational rights of national minority groups across Europe. The fact that 2023 marks the 25^th anniversary of the coming into force of the Council of Europe Framework Convention on National Minorities (FCNM) and European Charter for Regional and Minority languages (ECRML) makes this book especially timely and relevant. Its numerous detailed empirical studies, one of which uses FCNM reporting as a benchmark, give a picture of the extent (or otherwise) to which international minority rights standards are actually being realized through various NTA arrangements. In keeping with the principles laid out in these foundational documents, the contributions to this volume acknowledge that when it comes to the effective delivery of linguistic, cultural and educational rights, NTA is best regarded not as an alternative but as a complement to territorially based arrangements.

David Smith holds the Alec Nove Chair in Russian and East European Studies at the University of Glasgow, UK.

Ivan Dodovski is Professor in Critical Theory, and Dean of the School of Political Science at University American College Skopje, North Macedonia.