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03.07.2009
Toomas Hendrik Ilves

Who are we? Where are we?

National identity and mental geography

Over the last thousand years, Finland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have had multiple identities and been members of several empires. Now, writes the President of Estonia, "we should be looking to create identities that go beyond those that history has foisted upon us". [ more ]

02.07.2009
Martin M. Simecka

Still not free

01.07.2009
Stefan Jonsson

The first man

29.06.2009
Tatiana Zhurzhenko

The geopolitics of memory

25.06.2009
Timothy Snyder

Holocaust: The ignored reality


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24.06.2009
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So what's our problem?

"Hungarian Quarterly" divines the future of the forint; "Index on Censorship" gives libel law a bad press; "Samtiden" doubts whether Norwegian police women are any freer with the hijab; "Le Monde diplomatique" (Berlin) applies the belt to Europe's cordon sanitaire; "Mittelweg 36" sees solidarity outgrow the nation; "Roots" says yes to Europe, but not at any cost; "Kulturos barai" does not dismiss the idea of a new Lithuanian Grand Duchy; "Le Monde diplomatique" (Oslo) calls the European elections a farce; "Rili" wants to keep the market out of universities; and "Fronesis" explains what 2°C means in an expertocracy.

09.06.2009
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Happy birthday, Mr Habermas

26.05.2009
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In monads' land

05.05.2009
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Advanced profligate capitalism

21.04.2009
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A kind of Tory communist



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Authors

Georg Vobruba

(b.1948) is professor of sociology at the University of Leipzig, Germany.



Eurozine Articles


Georg Vobruba

Expansion without enlargement

Europe's dynamism and the EU's neighbourhood policy

In order to protect its core, the EU is creating a buffer zone at its periphery. But these states are perceived as a source of problems as much as a solution. [English version added] [more]

28.09.2007


Georg Vobruba

A critique of the criticism of Europe

The intellectual perspective on European integration

Although European integration determines everyday life in Europe, there is little intellectual criticism of it. The reason for this, writes sociologist Georg Vobruba, is that all the simple perspectives are already taken. [more]

03.09.2007


Georg Vobruba

Europe reaches its limits

From the dynamic of expansion to different degrees of integration

Squaring the circle between further enlargement and deeper integration. [more]

02.07.2004


 

Focal points

European histories

http://www.eurozine.com/comp/focalpoints/eurohistories.html
For solidarity to exist in the enlarged EU, an historical awareness must be developed that includes the experiences of new members. [more]

Media landscapes: Central and eastern Europe

http://www.eurozine.com/comp/focalpoints/medialandscapes.html
How Media autonomy in Europe's "newer democracies" is being inhibited by market forces and continuing political intervention. [more]

The malady of infinite aspiration?

http://www.eurozine.com/comp/focalpoints/financialcrisis.html
Sound in principle or sick at heart? Articles on the financial crisis, compiled under Durkheim's memorable phrase, "the malady of infinite aspiration". [more]

Editor's choice

Laurent Mauriac, Pascal Riché
Online journalism: Transposition or transformation?

http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2009-05-22-mauriacriche-en.html
The editors of the pioneering French politics website explain their concept for bridging the gap between print and the Internet. [more]

Literature

Andrea Zlatar
Literary perspectives: Croatia
Post-traumatic stress disorder

http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2009-03-31-zlatar-en.html
Common to new Croatian writing is the postwar experience, with marginal characters exploring tensions between individual and society. [more]

Katharina Raabe
The read expanse

http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2009-04-16-raabe-de.html
In the twenty years since the fall of communism, literature has been lifting the fog settling over the historical expanses of eastern central Europe. [more]

Conferences

Eurozine emerged from an informal network dating back to 1983. Since that time, a variety of European cultural magazines have met once a year in European cities to exchange ideas and experiences. In the meantime, approximately 100 periodicals from almost every European country have become involved in these meetings.
European histories
The 22nd European Meeting of Cultural Journals
Vilnius, 8-11 May 2009

http://www.eurozine.com/comp/focalpoints/vilnius_european_histories.html
The 22nd European Meeting of Cultural Journals took place in Vilnius, Lithuania, 8 to 11 May 2009. Under the heading "European Histories", the Eurozine conference explored the role of history and memory in forming new identities in a Europe in change. [more]

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