Defining the sovereign community
Subtitle: national identity, individual rights, and minority membership in the Czech and Slovak Republics
By: Nadya Nedelsky.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780812241655
Subjects: Czech Republic -- Politics and government -- 1993-; Slovakia -- Politics and government -- 1993-; Czechoslovakia -- Politics and government
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Awakenings; title: Nation-building in the empire's waning years; title: The first republic : Czechoslovakism and its discontents; title: The second republic and the wartime Slovak state; title: The third republic : "putting an end to all old disputes"; title: The communist period : new vows; title: From velvet revolution to velvet divorce; title: The implications of the ethnic model of sovereignty in Slovakia; title: The implications of the civic model of sovereignty in the Czech republic.