national populism and slovak – hungarian relations in - MEK

AuthorsNational Populism and Slovak – Hungarian Relations in Slovakia 2006 – 2009. Forum Minority Research Institute Šamorín – Somorja, 2009researcher with the Faculty of Central European Studies at University ofConstantine the Philosopher in Nitra and a permanent collaborator of theForum Institute for Minority Research in Šamorín. She is a member ofthe Slovak Sociological Society. She has authored a great number ofexpert and scientific studies and publications. Her principal fields ofresearch include sociology of enterprise, development of political andnational identity, value orientation of youth, and mutual Slovak –Hungarian relations. She also writes books for children.Grigorij Mesežnikov, PhDr.Grigorij Mesežnikov is a graduate of the Faculty of Arts at Moscow StateUniversity (MGU). Between 1983 and 1993, he worked at ComeniusUniversity in Bratislava; from 1993 to 1997 he was with the PoliticalScience Institute at the Slovak Academy of Sciences. He is a foundingmember of the Institute for Public Affairs (IVO), which he joined fulltimein June 1997. In February 1999, he became the Institute’s president.Between 1994 and 1998, he was the secretary of the Slovak PoliticalScience Association, while from 1996 to 1997 he lectured at TrnavaUniversity’s Department of Political Science. As a guest lecturer he lecturedat universities of Toronto, Ottawa, Edmonton, Washington (GWU),New York (Columbia University), Prague, Brno, Taipei, New Delhi andMumbai. He authored a number of expert studies on political aspects oftransformation in post-communist societies that were published in variousmonographs, collections and scholarly journals in Slovakia, the CzechRepublic, Austria, Slovenia, Hungary, Germany, Denmark, USA, Canada,Great Britain, Serbia, Belgium, Taiwan and Ukraine. He regularly analyzesSlovakia’s political developments for domestic and foreign media.Since 1993, he has been an external correspondent for Radio Liberty/Radio Free Europe. He has co-edited and co-authored a number of books,including the Global Reports on Slovakia, the annually published comprehensiveanalysis of Slova kia’s development in all relevant sectors ofsociety (i.e. domestic politics, foreign policy, economy, social policy, etc.).László Öllös, Mgr., PhDA political scientist, philosopher and university pedagogue, László Öllöswas born in 1957. He graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy atComenius University in Bratislava, majoring in Hungarian language andhistory. He was a founding member of the Independent HungarianInitiative (FMK–MNI) in November 1989 and contributed to developingthe political programme of the FMK–MNI, and later of the356