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Pēteris F Timofejevs and Louis John Wierenga

Pēteris F Timofejevs
Senior Lecturer at the Department of Political Science, Umeå University. He has written on Europeanization of foreign aid policy in Central and Eastern Europe and European NGOs working with development cooperation.
Currently, his research is focused on radical right parties in the Baltic Sea area, their positions in foreign and environmental policies and their youth organizations.
Louis John Wierenga
Lecturer in International Relations at the Baltic Defence College, PhD fellow at the Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies, University of Tartu and Research fellow at the Latvian Institute of International Affairs (LIIA). His research interests include populist radical right parties – specifically leadership and party structure, social media and discursive opportunity structures, youth organizations and transnational networks. Currently, Wirenga is part of a project entitled, “Making Tomorrow’s Leaders” which is a Swedish Research Council project analyzing youth organizations of far-right parties.

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Articles by Pēteris F Timofejevs and Louis John Wierenga

  1. Inflationary use of a political concept. Reinterpreting “genocide”

    Norman M Naimark, Stalins Genocides, Princeton & Oxford 2010, Princeton University Press, 163 pages, index.

  2. BECOMING FULL MEMBERS OF SOCIETY

    In the first post-revolutionary years the Bolshevik government saw Tatar and Bashkir women as important allies. Muslim women from the Volga-Ural region were to be educated and taught about their rights, and this educational campaign was seen as contributing to the development of the new socialist society. Women’s ignorance was seen by the Soviet authorities as an obstacle to progress which had to be overcome with the help of the new institutions like Commissions for the Improvement of the Work and Everyday Life of Women.

  3. Human Rights in Russia Going Beyond the Perils of Activism

    Human rights activism in Russia can be a dangerous ordeal for those involved in it. How do these dedicated people nonetheless manage to advance human rights in Russia? Here an interview with three human rights activists.

  4. Remembering the Shipyard Strike

    This article focus on how the Gdańsk shipyard strike and the formation of Solidarity have been remembered and observed afterwards, especially in connection with the 30th anniversary in August 2010. The author explores how people create meaning in past events in relation to current interests, and how the depiction of a shared history is constantly recast and used.

  5. History on Trial in Vilnius

    Earlier this year in Vilnius, the Socialist People’s Front leader Algirdas Paleckis was fined 10,400 litas (about 3,000 euros) for denying and grossly downplaying Soviet aggression against Lithuania the night of January 13, 1991.

  6. a hundred years later streetcars are still rattling in Baltic cities

    A young geographer by the name of Sten De Geer mapped the cities around the Baltic Sea in an article published in 1912. As an attempt to capture the urban structure of Baltic region cities, his paper is unique. In this article, we comment on his meticulous descriptions of these cities, with a century-long perspective.

  7. gated communities poland holds the european record in housing for the distrustful

    At present, there are probably more than four hundred gated communities in Warsaw and an estimated 75 percent of all new homes on the market in Warsaw are in gated communities. No other European capital has numbers this high. The tendency is the same in other larger Polish cities.

  8. The young and the old in Polish photography

    The Kraków Photomonth Festival was held for the first time in 2002, and internationally renowned photographers from many countries have been represented from the very start. Exhibitors in 2012 included Sally Mann (US), Viviane Sassen (Netherlands), Jason Evans (UK), and Sergey Bratkov (Ukraine).

  9. Call of the Wild

    Ever since systematic agriculture began in eastern Turkey around eleven thousand years ago, farmers and livestock keepers have had an antagonistic relationship to wild animals in general and predators in particular — a clash reflected in countless myths, legends, and fables, many of which survive in modern versions.

  10. 2012 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS IN SLOVENIA: a demise of presidential politics as we know it?

    On 2 December 2012 Slovenian citizens elected the fourth president of the republic in its short history as an independent and liberal democratic state. Although the presidential function in a system of parliamentary government (see Strøm, 1995) such as Slovenian is by constitution reduced to more or less ceremonial obligations with very limited executive competences, its significance is in fact far greater.

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