Ethnicity and Intercultural Dialogue at the European Union Eastern Border

Edited By: Mircea Brie, Sorin Sipos

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Ethnicity and religious confession generate intense controversy. Diversity can lead to either cooperation or conflict. We face discrimination, marginalization, and the inequitable distribution of power. Intercultural dialogue is essential to build a multicultural society.

Ethnicity and religious confession are concepts around which discussion and controversy arise, generating emotions and feelings of extreme intensity. Each of us belongs to such…

Ethnicity and religious confession are concepts around which discussion and controversy arise, generating emotions and feelings of extreme intensity. Each of us belongs to such a community. By default, there is pressure on us to be subjective.

Intercultural dialogue can be successfully provided where a community that is aware of the Other comes to communicate, cooperate and build the structure of a multicultural society. Diversity throughout Central and South-Eastern Europe can lead to either cooperation or conflict. Presently, we face discrimination, marginalization, low-status minorities, peripheral societies and the inequitable distribution of resources that leads to unequal distribution of authority and power.

Mircea Brie, Associate Professor of International Relations and European Studies at the University of Oradea, Romania, has conducted extensive research within the fields of International Relations, minorities issues, intercultural dialogue and European demography. He has authored five books, has edited seven other collective volumes, and has published more than 60 articles and studies.

Ioan Horga, Professor of International Relations and European Studies at the University of Oradea, Romania, is the Director of the Institute for Euroregional Studies and editor-in-chief of Eurolimes Journal. His area of interest circumscribes borders and frontiers, the process of European construction and integration and the theory of international relations. The author of seven books and editor of 11 others, he has published over 70 articles and studies.

Sorin Şipoş is Professor of History at the University of Oradea, Romania, and is a specialist in Eastern and Central European space with a particular focus on Romanian space. His research interests include history, interculturality, and political power. He is the author and co-author of 12 books and over 90 studies.

George ANGLIŢOIU, Sergiu BĂLŢĂTESCU, Aurora BENCIC, Monica BOLDEA, Sonia CATRINA, Ecaterina CEBAN, Floare CHIPEA, Sergiu Cornea, Valentina Cornea, Alexandra CSEKE, Srimayee DAM, Dragos DĂRĂBĂNEANU, Dorin I. DOLGHI, Dacian DUNA, Valentina-Tania DUNA, Anna GORBAN, Teodor Ioan HODOR, Claudia Anamaria IOV, Dragos Lucian IVAN, Anatoliy KRUGLASOV, Aurelian LAVRIC, Raluca MICLEA, Judit MOLNAR, Pavlo MOLOCHKO, Valeriu MOSNEAGA, Elisabetta NADALUTTI, Nataliya NECHAYEVA-YURIYCHUK, Stelian NISTOR, Kobasheni Moopen PARUMAUL, Istvan POLGAR, Adrian-Claudiu POPOVICIU, Natalia PUTINĂ, Rodica RUSU, Grigore SILASI, Gheorghe SISESTEAN, Florica Stefanescu, Constantin-Vasile ŢOCA, Yuriy YURIYCHUK, Ioan Horga, Sorin Sipos