Cross-Regional Ethnopolitics in Central and Eastern Europe

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.

• 1. Introduction: Setting the Conceptual and Theoretical Frames.- 2. Euroscepticism, Minority Rights, and Identity Politics: The Cases of Croatia and Serbia.- 3. Institutional Politics, Party Politics, and Ethnopolitics: The Cases of Estonia and Latvia.- 4. Geopolitics, Ethnopolitics, and the EU: The Cases of Latvia and Serbia.- 5. Geopolitics, Ethnopolitics, and the EU: The Cases of Estonia and Croatia.- 6. Final Remarks, Conclusions, and Trajectories for Further Research.

“The volume’s readability is to be welcomed, as the book is easy to navigate even for those who are not students, academics and/or professionals in the field but are interested in recent developments in the Baltics and the Balkans. Hence, I wholeheartedly recommend this volume. Whoever chooses to read it will be satisfied that they have done so.” (Vladimir Đorđević, Europe-Asia Studies, December 16, 2024)