Description
The panel brings together diverse perspectives on the entwinement of local and global politics in South East Europe. With papers interrogating the local echoes of Russian foreign policy in Serbia and Republika Srpska, the impact of COVID on Turkey's policies in the Western Balkans, the role of religion in the political ideology of Viktor Orbán and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and the securitisation of low fertility in North Macedonia and Serbia, the panel probes the similarities and differences in South East European states and the diversity of external influences within them.