Vassilis Petsinis

Corvinus University of Budapest · Institute of Political Science

As in the previous chapter, the pairing of the cases from the Baltic States (Estonia) and the Western Balkans (Croatia) is not random. A variety of actors interact in the management of ethnic relations in Estonia and Croatia: the ethnic Russian (As in Chapter 5, Russia is seen as the state that operates as the ‘external homeland’ of Estonia’s Russi...

This chapter focuses on the patterns of Euroscepticism among the political parties of Croatia and Serbia. Both states share the political legacies of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The emergence of Euroscepticism appears to provide one more common denominator.

The prospects of joining the EU have functioned as a pole of attraction for several states in Central and Eastern Europe. One of the conditions for admitting post-communist states into the EU, set out in the Copenhagen Criteria (1993), is the adequate protection of the rights and freedoms of national minorities.

This monograph consisted of a cross-regional study and relied on an interdisciplinary approach within political science. Its chief objective is to contribute to the systematic assessment of how ethnopolitics can combine with geopolitical configurations and also with the emergence of more recent trends such as nativism, (right-wing) populism, and Eu...

One might argue that the study of ethnopolitics interlinks specific territories with groups of people who are bound together by an agglomerate of sociocultural affinities through time (the ethnos/ethnie in classical Greek). This explains the interdisciplinary character of ethnopolitics. This field of study has incorporated theoretical and methodolo...

This chapter explores the intersection between governing institutions and interethnic cleavages and how this shapes party politics in Estonia and Latvia. Specific attention is paid to the populist and radical right-wing party of EKRE (Estonian Conservative People’s Party) in Estonia and the national conservative party of National Alliance (NA) in L...

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This report provides a comprehensive overview of the latest developments among the populist and radical right-wing and other ‘anti-establishment’ parties in the Baltic States. It examines the intersections between programmatic principles and the patterns of policymaking among the two main populist and radical right-wing parties in Estonia (Estonian...

This chapter illustrates why and how the existing theoretical models in the study of ethnopolitics need to be updated in light of the latest developments and the increasing impact of new catalysts. These are, namely, anti-immigration and the rise of the populist and radical right across Central and Eastern Europe. This chapter hints that the more s...

This article is a comparative study on the patterns of Euroscepticism encountered among the political parties of Croatia and Serbia. Primary attention is paid to the employment of Euroscepticism from within the halls of power by the ruling parties of Croatian Democratic Union/HDZ and the Serbian Progressive Party/SNS. Secondary attention is paid to...

This work is a study on the patterns of managing ethnic relations in Serbia and Latvia. It aims at enhancing the cross-regional exchange of knowledge between the Western Balkans and the Baltic States. This study demonstrates that as the bond between geopolitics and ethnopolitics grows more powerful, the liberalization of minority policies would bec...

This case study focuses on Estonia and introduces the populist and radical right-wing party of EKRE (Eesti Konservatiivne Rahvaerakond/Estonian Conservative People’s Party). It demonstrates that EKRE’s employment of identity politics over the refugee question and immigration is embedded inside the pre-existing frame of Estonian restoration and “dec...

The article explores party-based populist and radical right looking at the cases of Latvia's National Alliance (NA) and of the Estonian Conservative People's Party (EKRE). The research question is: How does the intersection between the specificities of party-systems and particularistic identity-politics either facilitate or complicate the political...

Golden Dawn remains Greece’s third largest party and has succeeded in maintaining the groupness of its voters during a series of electoral contests (local, national, and European). Nevertheless, Golden Dawn’s leadership is currently standing trial on criminal accusations and this has complicated the operation of the party. This article demonstrates...

This article focuses on the party of Jobbik (‘The Better’) and places its rhetoric and activism within the context of the Hungarian political system and its internal pathologies. A deeper and broader insight of nationalism's socio-psychological appeal in Hungarian politics and society will help the reader understand better why and how the economic...

This study is a comparison between the patterns for managing ethnic relations in Croatia and Estonia within the context of the EU's eastward enlargement. It sets in context how internal and external actors impact upon the management of ethnic relations in both states. Systemic transformation has generated the circumstances towards the formulation o...

This article focuses on Eurasianism as an ideological trend with a political appeal beyond the post-Soviet space. It demonstrates that the roles envisioned for the ‘Trojan horses’ of Eurasianism among the far right in Central/Southeast Europe and for Eurasianism’s sympathizers in Western Europe bear a qualitative difference. In the former case, the...

This work is a case study on the legal patterns for managing ethnic relations in Croatia within the context of European integration. The significance of European formal and informal engagement in this process is particularly highlighted. The main research questions in this article are: What has been the impact of the EU accession process on legisla...

This article sets within a qualitative framework part of the social sciences research that has been carried out on Central and Eastern Europe since 1989. This qualitative study relies upon quantitative data from journal monitoring carried out on a number of thematic journals on post-Communist Europe. What the article demonstrates is that political...

What will be discussed in this article is the pattern of ethnic relations in the Serbian autonomous province of Vojvodina, with a special focus on the relations between ethnic Hungarians and the Serbian majority. Particular attention will be paid to the political engineering of ethnicity, at the elite level, and ethnic relations from a grass-roots...

In this article, the patterns of multiethnic cohabitation encountered in selected societies in Western and Eastern Europe will be put into context and compared. This will involve consideration of the institutional as well as the grass-roots dimension of these societies’ multicultural experience. Reference will be made to the cases of Britain and Fr...

In this article, a critical overview of the situation of the national minorities resident in the Serbian autonomous province of Vojvodina is pursued. First of all, the novel legal framework with regard to national minorities, on the federal as well as the provincial level, is outlined. Then, the state of education in Vojvodina’s minority languages,...