New members
Over the last few months still more institutes and organisations have joined NISE.
From the Slovenská akadémia vied (Slovak Academy of Sciences) in Bratislava, the following institutes have become NISE network member: the Historický ústav (Institute of History, °1943), the Filozofický ústav (Institute of Philosophy, °1946) and the Ústav slovenskej literatúry (Institute of Slovak Literature, °1953). The institutes cover different aspects of (Slovak) nationalism studies and intend to operate closely together on the subject within NISE.
Also the Magyar Tudományos Akadémia (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) has now an institute represented in NISE: the Bölcsészettudományi Kutatóközpont – Történettudományi Intézet (Research Centre for the Humanities – Institute of History) established in 1949 in Budapest. It is the leading institute in Hungary for historical sciences, not only through own research but also by providing the necessary infrastructure for publications, periodicals, forums etc.
On 10 January 2014 the Centre Maurits Coppieters (CMC) officially became a partner of NISE. At the occasion, in the ADVN in Antwerp, a detailed agreement was signed, confirming the already existing cooperation over the last few years. CMC is recognised and funded by the European Parliament as a political foundation at European level; it is affiliated with the European Free Alliance (EFA), the European political party. Established in 2007, CMC promotes policy research with a European and international scope, mostly focusing on nationalism, management of cultural and linguistic diversity in complex societies, multilevel governance, decentralisation, state and constitutional reform, self-determination and secession of states, and political and economical governance of sub-central governments.
NISE welcomes the historian Andrei Cusco as Associated Member. He is Director of the Center for Empire Studies at the Department of History and Philosophy within the State University of Moldova University in Chișinău and currently also coordinating a research project at the Faculty of History, Al. I. Cuza University in Iași (Romania). His research interests focus on modern East European history, comparative history of the Eurasian empires, intellectual history and historiography. Andrei Cusco is also a specialist on Bessarabia as well as on broader issues of Russian and Romanian intellectual history. See more.