CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2007
| Author | Moroi, Rodica |
|---|---|
| Title | The Moldovan and Latvian Path towards Democratic Market Society - a Focus on Identity Politics |
| Summary | This thesis is aimed at exploring the interplay of identity and citizenship politics in Latvia and Moldova and to investigate its influence on the initial economic reforms pursued by these two countries. It is argued that citizenship policies are determined by the specific of the national identity of the titular nation. Consequently, the variation in the citizenship policies has led to a variation in the path of development of these two countries. Latvia is one of the post-Soviet countries not to offer citizenship to its Russian minority immediately after independence and Moldova is one of the Soviet successor states to have practiced liberal citizenship policies. Hence, Latvia chose to exclude a good part of its Russian minorities from the decision-making process and to distance itself from Russia. By contrast, Moldova chose to enfranchise its Slavic minorities and to join the Commonwealth of Independent States thus strengthening its links with Russia. The empirical studies on these two countries have been carried out in line with Rogers Brubaker’s triadic relation between the nationalizing state, the national minority and the influence of the national motherland that explains the politics of citizenship in the Soviet successor states. The hypothesis which stated that “the inclusion of the new national minorities in Moldova was determined by the specific of the Moldovan national identity. That decision influenced the early post-independence foreign and economic policies of Moldova” has been proven right. |
| Supervisor | Greskovits, Bela |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2007/moroi_rodica.pdf |
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