Nationmaking among the ruins of empire / Ronald Grigor Suny -- Rethinking empire in the wake of Soviet collapse / Mark R. Beissinger -- Culture shift in a postcommunist state / David D. Laitin -- Ethnic mobilization in the postcommunist context : Albanians in Macedonia and the East European Roma / Zoltan Barany -- Ethnicity, elections, and party systems in postcommunist states / Robert G. Moser -- What provokes violent ethnic conflict? : political choice in one African and two Balkan cases / Daniel Chirot -- Migration and ethnic politics in Eastern Europe and Eurasia / Charles King -- National minorities in postcommunist Europe : the role of international norms and European integration / Will Kymlicka -- Conclusion / Roger D. Petersen.