In this book, authors from Great Britain, Turkey, Netherlands and Slovenia discuss the question of intercultural and interethnic cohabitation in new Europe. The starting point of the book is that the idea of intercultural dialogue provides an important basis to trans-European cooperation and civil society's initiatives, which not only raise awareness of the project but also monitor its concrete political articulations. Therefore, it is important to ask how the idea of intercultural dialogue will benefit ordinary people and groups on the margin. As it is argued by the editor in the introduction, the project of intercultural dialogue, if it is to be conceived as the new paradigm of Europeanization, based on recognition and endorsement of plural cultural forms of European identity, can only achieve its aim if Europeanization is re-conceptualized simultaneously as de-Eurocentralization and a de-composing of local European ethno-centrisms.
