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 professor of history at the Institute d'histoire du temps present (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique).
The commemoration of the Franco-Prussian War, the Second World War, and the Algerian War are examples of how the nationalist construal of the past has given way to an internationalized model known as "presentism". [more]
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