Ethnopolitical Dynamics in the CEE EU Member-states: Trends and Prospects
https://doi.org/10.23932/2542-0240-2019-12-4-125-147
Abstract
The article is focused on the current ethnopolitical dynamics in the EU’ CEE MemberStates and on the peculiarities that distinguish this subregion among another ones in the EU area. The main phenomena analyzed are the establishment of the conservative right regimes in Poland and Hungary, the attempts to build the ethnocratic NationState in some Baltic States, the politization of the crossfrontier etnic minorities issue as well as the traditional stigmatization of the Roma minority. There are some frame factors influencing the intensive manifestation of the abovementioned trends: the peculiarities of the Nationbuilding process in the region of the traditional imperial domination are juxtaposing with the modern globalization and regional integration trends challenging the ambitions of the adepts of the Nation sovereignty. These are the cases of Poland and Hungary whose historical background has formed favorable conditions for the rightconservative renaissance. Yet the Baltic project of the ethnic NationState construction proved its impossibility amid the socioeconomic and demographic trends of nowadays Europe.
About the Author
A. I. Tevdoy-Bourmouli
MGIMO of the MFA of Russia
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
PhD in Politics, Assistant Professor, Department of Integration Processes
119454, Vernadsky Av., 76, Moscow, Russian Federation
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Tevdoy-Bourmouli A.I. Ethnopolitical Dynamics in the CEE EU Member-states: Trends and Prospects. Outlines of global transformations: politics, economics, law. 2019;12(4):125-147. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.23932/2542-0240-2019-12-4-125-147
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