Petőcz Kálmán (szerk.): National Populism and Slovak - Hungarian Relations in Slovakia 2006-2009 (Somorja, 2009)
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Authors Civic Party, as well. In 1995, he obtained his second diploma from the Faculty of Political Science at Central European University in Budapest. In the 1995/1996 academic year he was a fellow at the New School of Social Research in New York. Currently he teaches at University of Constantine the Philosopher in Nitra and is the president of the Forum Institute for Minority Research in Šamorín. Between 1999 and 2004, he was editor-in-chief of Fórum Társadalomtudományi Szemle [Forum Review of Social Sciences]. He specializes in problems of national minorities, political life of ethnic Hungarians in Slovakia and mutual Slovak-Hungarian relations. Kálmán Petöcz, PhDr. A political analyst and diplomat, Kálmán Petőcz was bom in 1961 in Komárno. He graduated from Comenius University in Bratislava in 1984, majoring in philosophy and physics. In 1991, he became politically involved with the Independent Hungarian Initiative that was later transformed into the Hungarian Civic Party (MOS-MPP); at one point, he was the party’s vice-chairman for foreign relations. He represented the MOS-MPP in organs of the Liberal International and the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party (ELDR), serving as its vice-chairman in 1997-1998. Between 1999 and 2005, he was Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Slovak Republic at UN in Geneva. During his tenure, he was elected vice-chairman of the World Conference against Racism (2001) and chairman of the UN Economic Commission for Europe (2002). In 2006, he worked as general director of the European Affairs Section at the Slovak Government’s Office. Since October 2006, he has been with the Forum Institute for Minority Research as a director for international cooperation. He is a visiting lecturer at Comenius University, the Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts and University of Constantine the Philosopher in Nitra. He served in boards of trustees at several foundations and non-governmental organizations, including Sándor Márai Foundation, Fórum Foundation, the Institute of Liberal Studies, the Slovak Foreign Policy Association and Open Society Foundation. Since January 2009, he has been one of spokespersons of the Roundtable of Hungarians in Slovakia. Peter Učeň Mgr., M.A. Peter Učeň studied political science in Bratislava, Budapest and Florence. He specializes in post-communist party politics and populism. He also works in the area of building democratic institutions, currently as 357
