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What is Eastern about Central and Eastern European Populism(s)?

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Michael Shafir
Babeş-Bolyai University
Sergiu Miscoiu
Babeş-Bolyai University

Abstract

In the last twenty years, transition in Central and Eastern Europe has proved to be more problematic that expected by analysts in the early 1990s. After two rather short periods of democratic enthusiasm and institutional consolidation, virtually all the countries in the region have been confronted to various shapes and degrees of populism. Our panel will try to identify the specificity of Central and Eastern European Neo-Populism by answering to series of questions such as: - How can one define Populism and determine the differences between Populism and Neo-Populism? - Is Central and Eastern Europe a more suitable framework for the development of Neo-Populism (like Latin America was in the 1960s?) - What are the main peculiarities of this region’s Populism? - Is there, in fact, a rather unitary phenomenon in Central and Eastern Europe or do we deal with a series of divergent phenomena? - How are Central and Eastern Europe (Neo-)Populism(s) connected to their Western European, Latin American, Eastern Asian or Western African counter-parts? Copy-paste or redrawing? - What are the main connections between regional Populism and Nationalism, Nationalist and Internationalist Communism, Fascism, Anti-Semitism, Racism, “Autarchism” and other “-isms” abundantly present in Central and Eastern Europe? Panel applicants are expected to deal with specific issues under the general frame of these topics in a precise, coherent and concise manner.

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