Overview
- Provides a timely analysis within the context of the EU’s and NATO’s enlargement to the Western Balkans
- Fills a gap in the academic literature on European ethnopolitics
- Contributes new insights toward the elaboration of alternative models for understanding ethnopolitics
Part of the book series: Central and Eastern European Perspectives on International Relations (CEEPIR)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book bridges the gap between academic researchers and policymaking experts working on the Western Balkans and those dealing with the Baltic States. Within the frame of a comparative and cross-regional approach, Vassilis Petsinis generates new insights in subjects as diverse as: how geopolitics shape the management of ethnic relations; the variants of Euroscepticism; opposition to immigration and LGBTQI rights; the patterns of multi-ethnic cohabitation; as well as the endeavour by parties of the populist and radical right to embed their platforms into the longer trajectories of ethno-nationalism in the countries and societies studied (Estonia and Latvia from the Baltic States; Croatia and Serbia from the Western Balkans). This work also assesses the extent to which the centrality of ethnic cleavages can be contested, temporarily effaced, or ultimately transformed by the increasing significance of the economy (social welfare and transparency) in multi-ethnic societies. The book adds a sound contribution towards updating and upgrading the study of ethnopolitics not solely across Central and Eastern Europe, but as a whole.
Reviews
“Vassilis Petsinis is to be congratulated for producing an important scholastic work that informs the reader of important political cross-currents in two important parts of the European continent. In so doing in an eminently readable fashion, he informs the reader of how politics has evolved and continues to evolve in the countries and regions under consideration.” (Karl Cordell, The University of Plymouth, UK)
“In his highly engaging and empirically rich new book, Petsinis updates earlier scholarly debates on Ethnopolitics—in particular, theoretical works on the triadic and quadratic nexus approaches—to take account of more recent political developments such as Euroscepticism, right-wing populism and nativism. In so doing, he convincingly demonstrates how the ability of domestic politicians to liberalise state policies on ethnic minorities is constrained by the role that domestic ethnopolitics has come to play in regional geopolitics. While Petsinis’ interdisciplinary and comparative research focuses on the Baltic States and Western Balkans, his theoretical insights on inter-ethnic relations will resonate with other societies in Europe and beyond and look set to be of interest to academics and policymakers alike.” (Richard C. M. Mole, Professor of Political Sociology, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, UK)
“Vassilis Petsinis offers an original and innovative look at the many dimensions of ethnopolitics in Central and Eastern Europe. His comparison of countries in the Balkans and the Baltics is well-structured and provides interesting insights that integrate ethnopolitics, geopolitics, EU integration, and other relevant fields of study into one coherent inter-sectional analysis.” (Stefan Wolff, Professor of International Security, University of Birmingham, UK)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Vassilis Petsinis is Senior Research Fellow in Comparative Politics at the Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies, University of Tartu, Estonia, within the frame of the Horizon 2020 POPREBEL international project. He is a political scientist with an expertise in European Politics and Ethnopolitics. His Marie Skłodowska-Curie (MSCA-IF) individual research project at the University of Tartu (2017-2019) was entitled: ‘Patterns and management of ethnic relations in the Western Balkans and the Baltic States’ (project ID: 749400-MERWBKBS). Vassilis Petsinis has developed a regional specialization in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. He has conducted research and taught at universities and research institutes in Estonia (Tartu University), Germany (Herder Institut in Marburg), Denmark (Copenhagen University), Sweden (Lund University, Malmö University, Södertörn University, and Uppsala University), Hungary (Collegium Budapest/Institute for Advanced Study), Slovakia (Comenius University in Bratislava), Romania (New Europe College) and Serbia (University of Novi Sad). Vassilis Petsinis holds a Ph.D. in Russian and East European Studies from the University of Birmingham, UK. He is the author of National Identity in Serbia: The Vojvodina and a Multiethnic Community in the Balkans (2020) and various academic publications that cover a range of countries as diverse as Serbia, Croatia, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia, Estonia, Latvia, and Greece.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cross-Regional Ethnopolitics in Central and Eastern Europe
Book Subtitle: Lessons from the Western Balkans and the Baltic States
Authors: Vassilis Petsinis
Series Title: Central and Eastern European Perspectives on International Relations
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99951-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-99950-6Published: 19 April 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-99953-7Published: 20 April 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-99951-3Published: 18 April 2022
Series ISSN: 2947-7980
Series E-ISSN: 2947-7999
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 234
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: European Politics, Comparative Politics, International Relations Theory