The failure of forced Europeanization and the birth of defensive nationalist democracy in Estonia
The EU accession process over, writes Tonis Saarts, Estonia's rightwing party politics has found a new rallying cry: the threat of Russia. [ more ]
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is a sociologist and lecturer at Sciences Po (School of Political Science, Paris) in the geopolitics of faiths.
How does the European Union handle the relationships between confessional faiths and the unified body that it is striving to bring about? Being inherently pluralistic, it is incumbent upon the EU to develop a new form of secularization. [more]
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