Central European Forum

Minority Research Journals  in Slovakia and Hungary

It is hardly debatable that in the decades since the regime change, significant institutionalization has taken place in the Central European genre of ethnic studies, particularly in the field of minority research. Numerous academic, governm...

New Wine in old bottle? Classical notions of political philosophy in a changed political reality

Introduction  Undeniably, we are witnesses and sufferers of a paradigm-shift; this process has been on-going for decades of course, but it has become explicit due to the climate crisis, Covid pandemic, and Russian invasion of Ukraine. These...

Citizens or non-citizens – discrimination against the Russian minority in the Baltics

Introduction In his 5,000-word essay titled „On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians,” Vladimir Putin described the collapse of the Soviet Union (USSR) in 1991 as the geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century (Stent 2022), as ...

Robert College During the Years of Conflict 1908-1918

Introduction “At the center of the world, all the lends around thee, orient and occident, with their best, have crowned thee.” The song begins with the lines, “at the center of the world,” which many Robert College students sing at their gr...

Combatting Illiberalism in the Heart of Europe: Lessons from Slovakia

Introduction The issue of democratic backsliding has been the topic of much discussion in recent years. There is general agreement that in the region of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) the quality of democracy has been declining. (Stanley ...