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: oDRIn Estonia, we should be careful not to overstate the impact of the information warThe Baltic States are now seen as the next frontline in Russia’s hybrid war. But the political preferences of ethnic...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?What does an anti-Semitic party look like in Europe today?As Britain debates antisemitism and the left, support for populist right-wing parties using hardline anti-Semitic...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Contentious politics in the Baltics: the ‘new’ wave of right-wing populism in EstoniaWhat is behind the far-right surge in Estonia?
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Syriza one year on: what happened to the radical left dream in Greece?In the year since they came to power, Syriza have all but capitulated on their radical economic program. But what...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Kyriakos Mitsotakis: a new leader with an old nameWhy did New Democracy members choose the socially liberal son of a former prime minister as the leader of their...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The refugee question in Europe: 'south' vs 'east'The refugee crisis has triggered a diplomatic row between Greece and certain 'new' member-states from Central and...