This book provides a comprehensive overview and critical analysis of minority protection through national constitutional law and international law in Europe.

1. Introduction [Joseph Marko] 2. The Interdisciplinary Approach: Law, Sociology and Political Sciences [Joseph Marko] 3. The Historic-Sociological Foundations: State Formation and Nation Building in Europe and the Construction of the Identitarian Nation-Cum-State Paradigm [Joseph Marko, Edith Marko-Stöckl, Benedikt Harzl and Hedwig Unger] 4. Law and Ideology: The Ideological Conundrums of the Liberal-Democratic State [Joseph Marko] 5. Law and Sociology: The Constructivist and Interpretative Turn [Joseph Marko] 6. Against Annihilation: The Right to Existence [Joseph Marko, Hedwig Unger, Roberta Medda-Windischer, Alexandra Tomaselli and Filippo Ferraro] 7. Against Assimilation: The Right to Multiple Identities [Joseph Marko, Sergiu Constantin, Günther Rautz, Andrea Carlà and Verena Wisthaler] 8. Against Discrimination: The Right to Equality and the Dilemma of Difference [Joseph Marko] 9. Against Marginalisation: The Right to Effective Participation [Joseph Marko and Sergiu Constantin] 10. From Minority Protection to Multiple Diversity Governance [Joseph Marko]

Joseph Marko is Professor of Comparative Public Law and Political Science at the Institute for Public Law and Political Science of the Karl Franzens University of Graz, Austria, and a former international judge at the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Since 1998, he is also the Director of the Institute for Minority Rights at Eurac Research, Bolzano/Bozen, Italy.

Sergiu Constantin is Researcher at the Institute for Minority Rights of Eurac Research, Bolzano/Bozen, Italy. He holds a law degree from the University of Bucharest, Romania, and a Master's in European Studies from the University of Graz, Austria.