DAVID J. GALBREATH Reader in Politics and International Relations at the University Bath, UK, and was principal investigator on the Leverhulme Trust project, 'The European Minority Rights Regime'. He is editor-in-chief ofEuropean Security.JOANNE McEVOY Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at the University of Aberdeen, UK,and was previously a Sawyer Mellon Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Penn Program in Ethnic Conflict at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research interests focus on the management of ethnic politics, particularly the role of external actors in post-conflict state-building.

'Galbreath and McEvoy offer a very insightful analysis of the European minority rights regime. Theoretically well-grounded and empirically substantiated at impressive levels of detail, this is a significant contribution to our understanding of the impact of international regimes in general and the dynamics of minority rights protection in Europe in particular.' - Stefan Wolff, Professor of International Security, Department of Political Science and International Studies, University of Birmingham, UK

• Introduction The Role of Regimes in Post-War Europe Explaining Regime Effectiveness The European Minority Rights Regime The Influence of International Organisations Inter-Organisational Overlap and Minority Rights International Regimes and State Implementation An Effective International Regime? Bibliography