Ethnic Cleansing and the European Union ― An Interdisciplinary Approach to Security, Memory and Ethnography

An enlarged European Union introduces new opportunities for ethnic remixing, bringing fears over potential minority return and even sovereignty in some cases. How does a border-effacing EU impact territory subject to ethnic cleansing? Why is potential minority return considered a security threat in some recently 'unmixed' areas, but not others?

Ethnic Cleansing and the European Union offers the first multi-case analysis of ethnic remixing in an expanding EU. The book's two major theoretical innovations include an explanatory frame elucidating variation in Central Europe, the Balkans, and Cyprus, and an analysis of repeated minority removal for conflict resolution purposes in the early- to mid-twentieth century. Tesser argues that the Western-dominated international community's earlier endorsement of separation brought potent after-effects: incentives for ethnic cleansing and the politics of ethnic remixing in an enlarging EU.

This book will appeal to all scholars interested in the European Union, Nationalism, Forced Migration Studies, and International Relations.

Lynn M. Tesser has spent over four years teaching and researching in Central Europe, the Balkans, and Cyprus. Tesser has held academic affiliations in the U.S., Germany, Poland, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Finland, and Cyprus, and received fellowships from the Fulbright Commission, Social Science Research Council, MacArthur and Mellon Foundations, among others. Her work on nationalism, EU expansion, and forced migration has been published in East European Politics and Societies, Communist and Post-Communist Studies, and Geopolitics. She holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Chicago, U.S.