ABSTRACT
Ethnonationalism in the West no longer feeds upon disputed borders. It will be useful to begin with crude classification of different kinds of ethnonational situations. The Western state has proved to be resilient in its confrontation with minority ethnonationalism than the pessimistic prognoses of the 1960s and 1970s had predicted. The Treaties of Versailles and St Germain recreated Poland and carved Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and much of Yugoslavia and Romania out of the defeated Empires. In Western Europe ethnonational groups are present but limited. A similar point can be made about the more complex ethnic patterns in the Centre and East. Ethnonational mobilization makes claims for adjustment in the political control and management of territory. An observation is made by Katzenstein on the events in the Alto Adige leading up to the adoption of the Proporzpaket. Successful territorial management in the East may be difficult, but not impossible. In turn it may provide an inspiration to Western ethnonational minorities.
