Vassilis Petsinis is a Marie Curie Experienced Researcher at the University of Tartu (Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies). With a PhD from the University of Birmingham, his specialisation is European politics and ethnopolitics with a regional focus on central and southeast Europe (including the Baltic States). Commentary authored between May 1, 2017 and April 30, 2019 was achieved with research funding from the European Union (Horizon 2020, Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions, Individual Fellowships-IF, project name: MERWBKBS-749400).
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Why Catalonia is not the BalkansAn analysis of where the Spain/Yugoslavia comparison succeeds, and where it fails.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Competing conservatisms in Serbia and CroatiaNationalist conservatives are dominating the political scenes in Serbia and Croatia, but how do they compare and...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Enter Serbia's ‘Orbán’? Aleksandar Vučić and his catch-all politicsWhy the right-wing Serbian President's appointment of an openly gay woman to the position of Prime Minister is not...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Syriza and ANEL: a match made in GreeceAre we seeing the convergence of Syriza and their right-wing coalition partners, ANEL, into a single party?
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The geopolitics of TrumpologyA look at the curious emergence of pro-Trumpism among the far-right parties of Greece, Hungary and Estonia.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The banality of Golden DawnWith Golden Dawn having entrenched themselves as the third-largest party in Greece, can they still be considered a...