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Jacques Rupnik
is a political scientist and historian. He is Directeur de recherche at the Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Internationales (CERI), Paris, and Visiting Professor at the Collčge d'Europe, Brügge. His publications include: "Die Dilemmata der Europäischen Union. Anatomie einer Krise", in: Transit -- Europäische Revue (2006); International Perspectives on the Balkans (2003); The Road to the European Union: The Czech and the Slovak Republik (Ed., 2003); Kosovo Report: Conflict, International Response, Lessons Learned (2000).
Eurozine Articles
In touch with a vanished world
François Fejtö was a witness of the century for whom politics was not a science and intellectual engagement not an excuse for ideological blindness. Jacques Rupnik remembers their last encounter. [more]
1968: The year of two springs
Parallels between May '68 and the Prague Spring are largely the result of the simultaneity of the events; in important respects, the political goals of the two movements were antithetical. Nevertheless, central European dissent had a significant impact on the French Left after 1968, argues Jacques Rupnik. [more]
The misunderstanding of 1968
One of the last interviews with Rudi Dutschke
Speaking a year before his death, Rudi Dutschke explained the reasons for the German Left's failure to understand what was at stake in Czechoslovakia in 1968. "In retrospect, the great event of '68 in Europe was not Paris, but Prague. But we were unable to see this at the time." [more]
Populism in Eastern Central Europe
Directly after the fall of communism, hopes burgeoned for democracy in the "new" Eastern Central Europe. What does the current climate of populism mean for these hopes and how does it affect these countries' relations with the EU? [Bulgarian version added] [more]
Anatomy of a crisis
The Referendum and the dilemmas of the enlarged European Union
The derailing of the EU constitution in 2005 raised fears that Europe would become divided and increasingly unstable. On the underlying causes and possible consequences of the crisis of the European project. [English version added] [more]
Between democratic fatigue and the politics of fear
The French presidential elections 2002
This was no regular presidential election, it was a referendum on basic commitment to democratic values and an open society. Jacques Rupnik takes a look at French politics and discovers a radical shift. [more]
EU Enlargement to the East
The Anatomy of a Reticence
A decade after the collapse of communism, the EU has still not been extended towards the East. Can Europe meet the challenge of integration for integration's sake? [more]