The papers in this collection examine the role of competing European, national, ethnic and regional identities over the introduction of new regional levels of government in the former Soviet and now Central and Eastern European states.

Chapter 1; Introduction: Region, State and Identityin Central and Eastern Europe, JudyBatt; Chapter 2 Hungary:Patterns of Political Conflict over Territorial-Administrative Reform, Brigid Fowler; Chapter 3 Slovakia: An Anthropological Perspective on Regional Reform, AlexandraBituš?KOVá; Chapter 4 Catching Up with ‘Europe’? Constitutional Debates on the Territorial-Administrative Model in Independent Ukraine, KatarynaWolczuk; Chapter 5 Narva Region within the Estonian Republic: From Autonomism to Accommodation?, David J.Smith; Chapter 6 Upper Silesia:Rebirth of a Regional Identity in Poland, Luiza Bialasiewicz; Chapter 7 Poland's Eastern Borderlands:Political Transition andthe ‘Ethnic Question’, MarzenaKisielowska-Lipman; Chapter 8 Transcarpathia: Peripheral Region at the ‘Centre of Europe’, JudyBatt; Chapter 9 Reinventing Banat, JudyBatt; Chapter 10 Conclusion:Identities, Regions and Europe, KatarynaWolczuk;