Pan-Slavism and Slavophilia in Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe - Origins, Manifestations and Functions

This book explores origins, manifestations, and functions of Pan-Slavism in contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, arguing that despite the extinction of Pan-Slavism as an articulated Romantic-era geopolitical ideology, a number of related discourses, metaphors, and emotions have spilled over into the mainstream debates and popular imagination. Using the term Slavophilia to capture the range of representations, the volume analyses how geopolitical discourses shape the identity and policies of a community, providing a comparative analysis that covers a range of Slavic countries in order to understand how Pan-Slavism works and resonates across geographic and political contexts.

?Mikhail Suslov is Assistant Professor in the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and a former researcher at the Uppsala Centre for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Sweden. He specialises in and teaches Russian (intellectual) history, political ideology, geopolitics, Russian Orthodox Church, contemporary Russian politics and society, and history of Eastern and Southern Europe.

Marek Cejka is Associate Professor in the Department of Territorial Studies at the Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic, a former assistant at the Constitutional Court of the Czech Republic, and a former researcher at the Institute of International Relations in Prague, Czech Republic. He specialises in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Middle East and Maghreb regions, the relationship between religion and politics, ideologies in the Middle East including Arab nationalism, (radical) Islamism, and Christian fundamentalism.

Ðordevic Vladimir is Assistant Professor in the Department of Territorial Studies at the Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic. He specialises in the Western Balkans, Europeanisation, democratisation, nationalism, and security-related agendas of the said region.