National Minorities in Inter-State Relations

Francesco Palermo, PhD (Innsbruck University, 1998) is professor of comparative constitutional law (University of Verona) and director of the Institute for Studies on Federalism and Regionalism (Eurac, Bolzano/Bozen). Former Senior Legal Adviser to the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities and former Member of the Advisory Committee on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities. Natalie Sabanadze, PhD in Politics and International Relations (Oxford University, 2005) is Senior Political Adviser to the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities. She has a number of publications in the fields of nationalism, international relations, minority rights and post-Soviet politics.