1st Edition

Multifaceted Nationalism and Illiberal Momentum at Europe’s Eastern Margins

Edited By Andrey Makarychev Copyright 2021
162 Pages
by Routledge

162 Pages
by Routledge

162 Pages
by Routledge

This edited volume addresses the set of politically challenging issues that the advent of populist movements raised for individual nation states and the whole Europe. Based on critical engagements with the extant scholarship in comparative politics, political philosophy, international relations, regional studies and critical geopolitics, this collection of chapters offers the interpretation of... Read more

Introduction

Andrey Makarychev

1. Biopolitical conservatism in Europe and beyond: the cases of identity-making projects in Poland and Russia

Alexandra Yatsyk

2. Populisms, popular geopolitics and the politics of belonging in Estonia

Andrey Makarychev and Vladimir Sazonov

3. Frontiers of hatred? A study of right-wing populist strategies in Slovakia

Aliaksei Kazharski

4. Rethinking the incumbency effect. Radicalization of governing populist parties in East-Central-Europe. A case study of Hungary

Daniel Hegedüs

5. Between party-systems and identity-politics: the populist and radical right in Estonia and Latvia

Stefano Braghiroli and Vassilis Petsinis

6. Celebrity populism: a look at Poland and the Czech Republic

Monika Gabriela Bartoszewicz

7. Theoretical and comparative perspectives on populism in Ukraine and Europe

Taras Kuzio

8. Are post-Soviet leaders doomed to be populist? A comparative analysis of Putin and Nazarbayev

Irina Busygina

Biography

Andrey Makarychev is Professor of Regional Political Studies at the University of Tartu, Estonia. The titles of his recent books – all co-authored with Alexandra Yatsyk - include "Celebrating Borderlands in a Wider Europe: Nations and Identities in Ukraine, Georgia and Estonia" (Nomos, 2016), ‘Lotman’s Cultural Semiotics and the Political" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017) and "Critical Biopolitics of the Post-Soviet: From Populations to Nations" (Lexington Books, 2020).