Concluding Chapter “Why Not Hold a Plebiscite like in Schleswig?” The Significance of Plebiscites in Solving Nationality and Border Conflicts in Europe since World War I

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents iii
3. List of Figures and Tables v
4. Introduction Between Plebiscites, Difficult History, and Minority Rights 1
5. Part One: The Right to Self-Determination and Plebiscites
6. Chapter 1. Schleswig Safe for Democracy? A Comparative Perspective on Right-Sizing Referendums 17
7. Chapter 2. Plebiscites and the Difficult Transition to Peace after the First World War 35
8. Part Two: Plebiscites and Minority Rights in the Aftermath of the Paris Peace Conference
9. Chapter 3. Where is Schleswig? Danish, German, and International Conceptions of the Schleswig Plebiscite 54
10. Chapter 4. Principles and Politics: Flensburg and Klagenfurt in the Plebiscites of 1920 74
11. Chapter 5. Visions of Legal and Substantive Citizenship and the League of Nations’ Minority Treaties 95
12. Part Three: Post-Plebiscitary Territories as Living Spaces between the Two World Wars
13. Chapter 6. Fabricating a Border: The Sopron Plebiscite of 1921 and the Delineation of Burgenland 126
14. Chapter 7. “Here at the Bleeding Eastern Border, One Could See the Injustice”: July 11, 1920, in the Public Conscience and the Regierungspräsidium of Marienwerder until 1939 150
15. Chapter 8. A Gendered View on the Plebiscitary and Post-plebiscitary Carinthian Slovene Minority: Roles and Realities of Women 172
16. Part Four: The Post-World War I Plebiscites in the Longue Durée
17. Chapter 9. Plebiscites, Minorities, and the Right of National Self-determination—Some Lessons from 1920 191
18. Chapter 10. Militarized Plebiscite? The Legacy of the 1920 Carinthian Plebiscite 206
19. Chapter 11. About Sèvres, Lausanne, the Widow Molla Sali, and the Ineffectual Attempt of Greece to Circumvent the Principles of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities 227
20. Concluding Chapter “Why Not Hold a Plebiscite like in Schleswig?” The Significance of Plebiscites in Solving Nationality and Border Conflicts in Europe since World War I 247
21. List of Contributors 270
22. Index 275