CHAIR

Zsuzsa Csergo

(Queen’s U, Canada)

PAPERS

Magdalena Dembińska

(U de Montréal, Canada)

Tourism Industry in De Facto States:

Internal and External Legitimization Strategies of Statehood

*co-authored with Félix-Antoine Cloutier (U de Montréal)

Keith Harrington

(Maynooth U, Ireland)

A Fifth Column? Anti-Secession Sentiment

Amongst Transnistria’s Moldovans, 1989-1990

Ion Marandici

(Independent Scholar)

Rule Takers or Rule Shapers? Exploring De Facto State Agency

Across Patron-Client Dyads via a Paired Comparison of Taiwan and Transnistria

Eva Posch

(U of Graz, Austria)

Nationalizing Representations of History in Tourism

and the Negotiation of National Identity and Nationhood in Eastern Europe

DISCUSSANT

Ria Laenen

(KU Leuven, Belgium)

Saturday May 8, 10.00-11.30 AM EST

Central Europe