Central European Connections in National Minorities´ Development at the Beginning of 21st Century

Barbara Kacerová, Štefan Šutaj, Jana Šutajová (eds.)

Central European context of national development and nationality policy in Slovakia should be monitored especially due to the fact that most national minorities in Slovakia have their mother nations in neighbouring countries and, vice versa, Slovak minorities live in other European countries. This dimension of nationality policy cannot be neglected as it is very important for the perception of interrelations and is often reflected in the political solutions presented, but also in the perception of ethnic relations by the inhabitants of Central European region. It should be pointed out that these conference proceedings do not present the papers presented at the conference, but these are in-depth scientific studies based on the papers presented. Due to the interdisciplinary nature of the publication, the authors use two types of references to literature, thus we accepted systems of both social and human sciences (one common to historical sciences and the other typical for sociology and psychology) which use different strategies to refer to literature and sources.