Martin Klatt
Assoc. Prof. Martin Klatt joined the ECMI in 2022 as Head of the Cluster “Danish-German Minority Issues”. He holds an BSc in Business from Hamburg School of Business Administration, an MA in History, Political Science and Nordic Languages from Christian Albrecht University in Kiel, and a PhD in history from University of Southern Denmark. He has researched nationalization processes, minority accommodation and cooperation in European border regions, with a strong focus on the Danish-German border region and its national minorities. Martin has been involved in several collaborative international research projects and research networks. In 2023-2026, he will be a coordinator of the Horizon Europe project Borders Shaping Perceptions of European Societies (B-SHAPES), in collaboration with the University of Southern Denmark.
Prior to joining the ECMI, Martin worked as Associate Professor at the Centre for Border Region Studies, University of Southern Denmark. His previous scientific appointments had been at the Danish Institut for Border Region Studies, the Historic Department of the Danish Central Library for South Schleswig, and the Schleswig-Holstein Institute for Peace Research. Martin has lectured and taught different subjects within European Studies, Minority Studies, and Border Studies. He was previously a visiting professor at the Centre for Global Studies, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, and visiting lecturer at the Metropolitan University, Prague, the University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, the University of Strasbourg and the University of Liberec, Czechia.
His research interests focus on nationalization and regionalization processes, management of diversity, and governance in border regions. As seen from his publication list, he has published broadly on the topic of border regions and minorities.
At the ECMI, Martin covers research, dissemination and cooperation with regional stakeholders on minority issues of the Danish-German border region.
Andersen, D. J., Klatt, M., & Sandberg, M. (Eds). (2012). The Border Multiple. The Practicing of Borders between Public Policy and Everyday Life in a Re-Scaling Europe. Ashgate.
Jebsen, N., & Klatt, M. (2014). The Negotiation of National and Regional Identity During the Schleswig-Plebiscite Following the First World War. First World War Studies, 5(2), 181–211.
Klatt, M. (2017). Minorities as secondary foreign policy agents in peace-building and reconciliation? The case of Denmark and Germany. Regional & Federal Studies, 27(3), 239–259. doi.org/10.1080/13597566.2017.1350651
Klatt, M. (2019). The Border on TV: What’s so Fascinating about Crimes at the Border? Borders in Globalization Review, 1(1), 135–136.
Klatt, M. (2022). Schleswig and Non-Territorial Autonomy – The Territorial Trap? Nationalities Papers, 50(5), 906–922. Cambridge Core. doi.org/10.1017/nps.2021.81
Klatt, M. (2023). The Dilemma of Responsibility: The Role of Kin-States and Nation-States in Implementing Non-Territorial Autonomy Models to Realise Minorities’ Linguistic, Cultural and Educational Rights. In D. J. Smith, I. Dodovski, & F. Ghencea (Eds), Realising Linguistic, Cultural and Educational Rights Through Non-Territorial Autonomy (pp. 43–56). Springer Nature Switzerland.
Tarvet, R., & Klatt, M. (2023). The impact of the Corona crisis on borderland living in the Danish-German border region with a special focus on the two national minorities. National Identities, 25(1), 35–52. doi.org/10.1080/14608944.2021.1938522
Klatt, M. (2024). Plebiscites, Minorities, and the Right of National Self-determination—Some Lessons from 1920. In S. Bober (Ed.), Exploring the Right of Self-Determination (pp. 191–205). Central European University Press. doi.org/10.1515/9789633866115-011
Klatt, M. (2025). Minority policies – or border policies? A neo-realist interpretation of kin-state policies in the Danish-German “European Model” of minority accommodation. In T. H. Malloy, S. Oeter, & G. Volkmer (Eds), The promotion of national minorities by their ‘mother countries’ in Central and Eastern Europe in the 20th and 21st century. De Gruyter/Oldenbourg.
Lendák-Kabók, K., & Klatt, M. (Eds). (2026). Minorities, Identity and Intermarriage: A European Perspective. Rout. doi.orghttps://doi.org/10.4324/9781003563228
