Ahmet Ersoy is lecturer at the Department of History, Bogaziçi University, Istanbul.Balázs Trencsényi is a Professor at the History Department of Central European University.Vangelis Kechriotis is lecturer at the Department of History, Bogaziçi University, Istanbul.Maciej Górny is Research Fellow at the Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw and Centre for Historical Research in Berlin.Marius Turda is Professor in 20th Century Central and Eastern European Biomedicine at Oxford Brookes University. He is Director of the Centre for Medical Humanities.Michal Kopecek is Research Fellow at the Institute of Contemporary History, Prague.

"Discourses of Collective Identity bietet eine eindrucksvolle Lektüre und sei auch solchen Lesern empfohlen, die sich jenseits der ostmittel-, südosteuropäischen Area Studies für Nationalismusforschung interessieren. Für jene Regionalstudien bedeutet er einen gewichtigen Versuch, das Feld für eine kritische Ideengeschichte zurückzugewinnen, nachdem besonders für Südosteuropa ethnologisch-anthropologische, kultur- und sozialgeschichtliche Fragestellungen in letzter Zeit eine dominierende Stellung einnehmen."

• Introduction, Chapter I. Making of the modern state in a multi-national context, Chapter II. Self-determination, democratization, and the homogenizing state, Chapter III. “National projects” and their regional framework, Chapter IV. Federalism and the decline of the empires, Chapter V. Socialism and the nationality question