Thursday 25 October 2012
Ethnic Struggle, Coexistence, and Democratization
Speaker: Dr. Sherrill Stroschein, University College London
The lecture discussed how problems of ethnic politics have been overcome in new democracies in Eastern Europe. It analyzed in particular how ethnic contention in Romania and Slovakia became a deliberative process that moderated political claims, allowing democratic consolidation to slowly and organically take root - even after a violent riot between Hungarians and Romanians in 1990.