The Kin-state Policy in the Western Balkans: Romania, Hungary and Serbia
Expert briefing, March 2024
Professor David Smith and Dr Andreea Udrea delivered an expert briefing to the Civil Service Bosnian–Croatian–Serbian Network, jointly hosted by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office and the Scottish Government. Their talk addressed recent political developments in the Western Balkans, with particular emphasis on the role of kin-state engagement in shaping regional stability and influencing prospects for European Union integration.
10the Anniversary of the Bolzano/Bozen Recommendations on National Minorities in Inter-state Relations: New Challenges and Lessons Learned
Close Expert Round table, 15 July 2018, OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, Udine, Italy
Preceding a two-day conference that brought together representatives of OSCE participating States, international organizations, experts and academics, this workshop discussed the value and limitations of the Bolzano/Bozen Recommendations on National Minorities in Inter-state Relations 10 years after they were adopted. Andreea Udrea represented the KINPOL Observatory on Kin-state Policies.
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Revisiting Kin-state Kin-minorities Relations in the OSCE Arena
OSCE High Commissioner of National Minorities and University of Glasgow, 24 October 2017, The Hague, The Netherlands
This workshop brought together the advisers from the office of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities and scholars on kin-state and autonomy issues. It introduced the KINPOL Observatory on Kin-state Policies and its new project on Poland’s kin-state policies; discussed emerging and potential future kin-states; outlined examples of good practice from an OSCE perspective of kin-state policies and contrasted it with examples of unilateral policies; reflected on existing OSCE recommendations and international instruments’ impact on inter-state relations; and engaged with the work of visiting scholars through individual/group interviews and informed advisers’ work on specific portfolios of countries.
PARTCIPANTS: The advisers from the office of the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities, David Smith (University of Glasgow), Andreea Udrea (University of Glasgow), Federica Prina (University of Glasgow), Zsuzsa Csergő (Queen’s University) and Kristina Kallas (University of Tartu Narva College).