This chapter investigates the ways in which the post-2010 Fidesz government under Viktor Orbán us... more This chapter investigates the ways in which the post-2010 Fidesz government under Viktor Orbán used antisemitic tropes to configure George Soros—once hailed as a champion of market reform, freedom, and democracy—as an ontological threat to the Hungarian nation that should therefore be expunged from the country, together with “his networks,” including the Open Society Institute and Central European University. To show the government’s communication strategy in action, we combined an analysis of antisemitic discourse on the far right with a media content analysis of Sorosozás in government-backed online news portals from 2015 to 2020. We show that, from 2010, Orbán and his media allies discursively interpellated specific individuals and states as “financiers” and “global powers” as cogs in a global “Soros network.” In doing so, they drew upon well-established fifth-column narratives originally constructed and refined by ideologists from the Kádár era who employed a latent antisemitic ...
Grounded Nationalisms: A Sociological Analysis has become an instant classic in nationalism studi... more Grounded Nationalisms: A Sociological Analysis has become an instant classic in nationalism studies. In just over 300 pages, Siniša Malešević, one of the world’s leading nationalism scholars, has constructed a rich treatise on some of the central questions of our day: How should we think about nationalism? What is the future of nationalism? And what accounts for the ubiquity of national identities and national identification long after the so-called Age of Nationalism ended?
Global Populism Database measures the level of populist discourse in the speeches of 215 chief ex... more Global Populism Database measures the level of populist discourse in the speeches of 215 chief executives (presidents and prime ministers) from 66 countries across all continents. The dataset covers 279 government terms and includes more than 1,000 speeches, mostly between 2000 and 2018. Each speech is coded manually by one or two coders using the "holistic grading" (Hawkins 2009) technique.
The Politics of National minority Participation in Post-Communist Europe, 2019
@inbook {,. title = {The roma of Central and Eastern Europe : constructing a stateless nation},. ... more @inbook {,. title = {The roma of Central and Eastern Europe : constructing a stateless nation},. booktitle = {The politics of national minority participation in post-communist Europe : state-building, democracy, and ethnic mobilization},. year = {2000},. ...
Abstract This essay argues that the research on ethnic conflict has for too long suffered from si... more Abstract This essay argues that the research on ethnic conflict has for too long suffered from significant disciplinary divides among sociologists, historians, political scientists, anthropologists, geologists, and economists—these divides bring attention to underemphasized factors, but can also foster inattention to the influence of factors that fall outside of the specific purview of one’s field. Even within political science, there is a divide between comparativists’ focus on state-level factors and international relations scholars’ work on transnational dimensions. The past two decades have seen important cross-fertilization due to numerous projects that seek to bridge methodological and disciplinary boundaries that hamper fuller understanding of the causes and solutions of ethnic conflict. Unfortunately, there remains a strong statist bias in the field, which is, however, being challenged by a newer generation of scholars who are focusing on conflict processes above, below, and beyond the state.
This chapter investigates the ways in which the post-2010 Fidesz government under Viktor Orbán us... more This chapter investigates the ways in which the post-2010 Fidesz government under Viktor Orbán used antisemitic tropes to configure George Soros—once hailed as a champion of market reform, freedom, and democracy—as an ontological threat to the Hungarian nation that should therefore be expunged from the country, together with “his networks,” including the Open Society Institute and Central European University. To show the government’s communication strategy in action, we combined an analysis of antisemitic discourse on the far right with a media content analysis of Sorosozás in government-backed online news portals from 2015 to 2020. We show that, from 2010, Orbán and his media allies discursively interpellated specific individuals and states as “financiers” and “global powers” as cogs in a global “Soros network.” In doing so, they drew upon well-established fifth-column narratives originally constructed and refined by ideologists from the Kádár era who employed a latent antisemitic ...
Grounded Nationalisms: A Sociological Analysis has become an instant classic in nationalism studi... more Grounded Nationalisms: A Sociological Analysis has become an instant classic in nationalism studies. In just over 300 pages, Siniša Malešević, one of the world’s leading nationalism scholars, has constructed a rich treatise on some of the central questions of our day: How should we think about nationalism? What is the future of nationalism? And what accounts for the ubiquity of national identities and national identification long after the so-called Age of Nationalism ended?
Global Populism Database measures the level of populist discourse in the speeches of 215 chief ex... more Global Populism Database measures the level of populist discourse in the speeches of 215 chief executives (presidents and prime ministers) from 66 countries across all continents. The dataset covers 279 government terms and includes more than 1,000 speeches, mostly between 2000 and 2018. Each speech is coded manually by one or two coders using the "holistic grading" (Hawkins 2009) technique.
The Politics of National minority Participation in Post-Communist Europe, 2019
@inbook {,. title = {The roma of Central and Eastern Europe : constructing a stateless nation},. ... more @inbook {,. title = {The roma of Central and Eastern Europe : constructing a stateless nation},. booktitle = {The politics of national minority participation in post-communist Europe : state-building, democracy, and ethnic mobilization},. year = {2000},. ...
Abstract This essay argues that the research on ethnic conflict has for too long suffered from si... more Abstract This essay argues that the research on ethnic conflict has for too long suffered from significant disciplinary divides among sociologists, historians, political scientists, anthropologists, geologists, and economists—these divides bring attention to underemphasized factors, but can also foster inattention to the influence of factors that fall outside of the specific purview of one’s field. Even within political science, there is a divide between comparativists’ focus on state-level factors and international relations scholars’ work on transnational dimensions. The past two decades have seen important cross-fertilization due to numerous projects that seek to bridge methodological and disciplinary boundaries that hamper fuller understanding of the causes and solutions of ethnic conflict. Unfortunately, there remains a strong statist bias in the field, which is, however, being challenged by a newer generation of scholars who are focusing on conflict processes above, below, and beyond the state.
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