Extraterritorial Citizenship in Postcommunist Europe [Paperback]

This volume examines the relationship between states and the citizens they govern, particularly non-resident citizens and resident non-citizens. Using a sample of states in post-communist Europe, this book seeks to illustrate how extraterritorial citizenship has been used as a tool for nation building, securitisation and foreign policy.Timofey Agarin and Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski have produced a fascinating book about extraterritorial citizenship that is very topical in the light of the 2014 UkraineRussia crisis.This is a long overdue study of citizenship granted to ethnic co-nationals beyond state borders. The case studies meticulously outline citizenship policies in post-Communist Europe in terms of their domestic and international justifications and the bottom up responses. This volume is not just important for understanding policies of citizenship and nationalism in Central and Eastern Europe, but also ?raises important questions about the increasing incongruence of citizenship and residence across Europe. ?This volume should be of great interest to scholars and policy-makers interested in the future of citizenship and democratic government in post-communist Europe. The essays included reflect deep knowledge about the way extraterritorial citizenship has become an important dimension of the restructuring of state-society relations. These analyses contribute significantly to our understanding about changes in the meanings of sovereignty and the relationship between political institutions and the individuals and social groups within them.Citizenship is usually associated with the rights of the individual, civic nationalism, and liberal democracy. This book reveals that the practice of extraterritorial citizenship allows postcommunist societies to seize the concept and use it as a tool for perpetuating collectivistic ethnic nationalism, characteristic of their communist past. This remarkable contribution introduces an important corrective to, and deepening of, ol#m