Petőcz Kálmán (szerk.): National Populism and Slovak - Hungarian Relations in Slovakia 2006-2009 (Somorja, 2009)
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Authors archer with the Faculty of Central European Studies at University of Constantine the Philosopher in Nitra and a permanent collaborator of the Forum Institute for Minority Research in Šamorín. She is a member of the Slovak Sociological Society. She has authored a great number of expert and scientific studies and publications. Her principal fields of research include sociology of enterprise, development of political and national 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 State University (MGU). Between 1983 and 1993, he worked at Comenius University in Bratislava; from 1993 to 1997 he was with the Political Science Institute at the Slovak Academy of Sciences. He is a founding member of the Institute for Public Affairs (IVO), which he joined fulltime in June 1997. In February 1999, he became the Institute’s president. Between 1994 and 1998, he was the secretary of the Slovak Political Science Association, while from 1996 to 1997 he lectured at Tmava University’s Department of Political Science. As a guest lecturer he lectured at universities of Toronto, Ottawa, Edmonton, Washington (GWU), New York (Columbia University), Prague, Brno, Taipei, New Delhi and Mumbai. He authored a number of expert studies on political aspects of transformation in post-communist societies that were published in various monographs, collections and scholarly journals in Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Austria, Slovenia, Hungary, Germany, Denmark, USA, Canada, Great Britain, Serbia, Belgium, Taiwan and Ukraine. He regularly analyzes Slovakia’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 comprehensive analysis of Slovakia’s development in all relevant sectors of society (i.e. domestic politics, foreign policy, economy, social policy, etc.). László Öllös, Mgr., PhD A political scientist, philosopher and university pedagogue, László Öllös was bom in 1957. He graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy at Comenius University in Bratislava, majoring in Hungarian language and history. He was a founding member of the Independent Hungarian Initiative (FMK-MNI) in November 1989 and contributed to developing the political programme of the FMK-MNI, and later of the Hungarian 356
