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1 Tom G. Gallagher, `The West and the Challenge to Ethnic Politics in Romania', Security Dialogue , vol. 30, no. 3, September 1999, pp. 293-304.
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2 Michael Doyle, Ways of War and Peace (New York: W. W. Norton, 1997).
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3 See Strobe Talbott, `Democracy and the National Interest', Foreign Affairs , vol. 75, no. 6, November/December 1996, pp. 47-63.
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4 Lois Romano, `Bush Shuns Insiders, Father's Ex-Aides', Washington Post , 26 September 1999.
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5 Hanns Binnendijk & Richard L. Kugler, `Open NATO's Door Carefully', The Washington Quarterly , vol. 22, no. 2, Spring 1999, pp. 125-138.
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6 William Drozdiak, `NATO Looks to Balkans for Growth, Baltic States Fear They May Get Overlooked in Expansion', Washington Post , 7 July 1999.
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7 `NATO Growth Driven by US Domestic Policy', Le Monde , 9 July 1997 (as translated in Foreign Broadcast Information Service [FBIS], FTS1997 0709000776).
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8 Michael E. Brown, `The Causes and Regional Dimensions of Internal Conflict', in Michael E. Brown, ed., The International Dimensions of Internal Conflict (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996), pp. 571-600.
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9 Paul Robert Magocsi, Historical Atlas of East Central Europe (Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 1993), p. 163.
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10 Jozsef Antall caused considerable excitement in 1991 when he claimed that he was prime minister of all of the Hungarians. The issue of Hungary's policy towards its co-ethnics reverberates through every election campaign there.
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11 Csaba Lukacs, `Region Is Home to 720,000 Hungarians; Three Counties Vie for University in Eastern Transylvania', Napi Magyarorszag , Budapest, 2 September 1999 (FBIS: FTS19990923001722).
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12 J. Craig Jenkins & Kurt Schock, `Global Structures and Political Processes in the Study of Domestic Political Conflict', American Review of Sociology , vol. 18, 1992, pp. 161-185.
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13 Ibid., pp. 172-173.
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14 World Bank: World Development Indicators 1999. CD-ROM, 1999.
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15 Approximately 10% of the population of the Brasov district is Hungarian, according to the 1992 Romanian census.
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16 Bucharest Adevarul , 28-29 August 1999 (FBIS, FTS19990831000108).
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17 Michael Shafir, `Romania's Hungarian Party Torn by Inner Conflict', RFE/RL Newsline , 7 April 1999.
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18 `Neighbors Pact Welcomed Abroad - Not at Home', Inter Press Service, 16 September 1996.
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19 Hungarian TV1, in Summary of World Broadcasts , BBC Worldwide Monitoring, 22 September 1996. In February 1998, Foreign Minister Teodor Melascanu confirmed this opinion in a conversation with the author, conducted in Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
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20 About 35 interviews were held in April-September 1999. At a conference on internal matters in Romania, held in Spring 1999 at the Tutzing Academy in Germany, the issue apparently never came up at all.
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21 Radio Romania Network, Bucharest, 8 July 1997 (FBIS, FTS19970709000525).
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22 Bucharest Adevarul , 14 July 1999 (FBIS, FTS19990714001325).
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23 Evenimentul Zilei , Bucharest, 23 July 1999 (FBIS, FTS19990728001531).
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24 The Constantinescu government has shown a continuing slide in the polls. See Bucharest Adevarul , 8 October 1999 (FBIS, FTS19991008000771).
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25 Anca Hriban, `Polls Reflect Contradiction Between Rulers' Programs and Electorate's Wishes', Ziua , 30 August 1999 (FBIS, FTS19990902000800).
