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National Populism and Interethnic Relations in Slovakia

Forum Minority Research Institute. International colloquium. Kick-off meeting of the biannual project Challenging (National) Populism and Promoting Interehtnic Tolerance and Understanding in Slovakia. Some results of the research started in July will be presented. Well-known experts from Slovakia and from abroad will discuss the problem of the national populism in Slovakia, in its historical, political and social context. More...

Populism and Liberal Democracy in CEE

Institute for Public Affairs. The four country studies that were presented on the Bratislava seminar will be available soon. The main goal of the project is to formulate proper policy responses to populism. Project Team: Grigorij Mesežnikov, Oľga Gyárfášová, Martin Bútora (IVO, Slovakia), Ivan Krastev, Daniel Smilov (CLS, Bulgaria), Jacek Kucharczyk (ISP, Poland), Renata Uitz, Andras Sajo (Hungary). Partners: Center for Liberal Strategies (Sofia), Institute of Public Affairs (Warsaw), team of Hungarian experts. More...

Populism in Central Europe, International Conference, Prague, November 22, 2007

The conference is organized by the Association for International Affairs (AMO), a leading independent think-tank established in the Czech Republic to provide information, resources and analysis in the fields of international relations and regional and global politics. The conference is co-organised with the Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences, and the Institute of Political Sciences of the Slovak Academy of Sciences. More...

We are a breeding-ground for populism

Hospodárske noviny / interview with prof. Wiktor Osiatyński, 14.6.2007

Since 1993, decisions in Slovakia have been made by various kinds of populists -- hard core populists, moderate populists and now both. What are the causes of populist policy in Central Europe and why is populism on the rise? Where is the line between a politician and a populist and who are they most often in our region? HN asked renowned Polish Professor Wiktor Osiatyński of the Budapest Central European University. More...