Csergo (political science, the George Washington U.) analyzes the political debates over Hungarian minority language rights in Romania and Slovakia in the contexts of post-Communist institutional transformation, European accession, and relations with the Hungarian kin-state. He opens with a discussion of the relationship between language conflicts in the first years of transition and broader questions of sovereignty and democratization. He then looks at the participation of international actors and domestic minority and majority elites in the language debates and describes the models that emerged regarding the relationship between languages in the areas of public spaces, self-government, and education. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)