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Tatiana Zhurzhenko

Land of confusion

Ukraine, the EU and the Tymoshenko case

The Ukraine-European Union summit, planned for 19 December, was to have brought talks on an Association Agreement to a conclusion. But conflict with the EU over the prosecution of Yuliya Tymoshenko means Ukraine's future hangs in the balance, writes Tatiana Zhurzhenko. [more]

14.12.2011


Samuel A. Greene

Russia: Society, politics and the search for community

What are the factors that could end Russia's democratic inertia? While pressure from below is likely to provoke consolidation of the elites, writes Samuel A. Greene, long-term economic decline might encourage greater European integration and reform of the country's institutions. [more]

02.12.2011


Thomas Schmid

The story behind the story

The newspaper crisis shows that another kind of journalism is needed: one that goes into detail, tells great stories, provides background, poses questions and turns answers into more questions. Thomas Schmid, publisher of "Die Welt", calls for a revival of journalistic virtues. [more]

16.08.2011


Paul Starr

Bad news for the news

The good news is: the digital revolution has revitalized journalism. The bad news: nobody wants to pay for it. With the Internet undermining the economic basis of professional reporting, the freedom of the press in western democracies is at stake, warns sociologist Paul Starr. [more]

16.08.2011


Ivan Krastev, Gleb Pavlovsky, Tatiana Zhurzhenko

The politics of no alternatives or How power works in Russia

An interview with Gleb Pavlovsky

In interview with "Transit", former dissident turned "political technologist" Gleb Pavlovsky talks about the workings of political power in the former Soviet Union and in post-Soviet Russia. [Polish version added] [more]

18.10.2011


Ivan Krastev

Democratic, can travel

The Russian regime's abandonment of the ideology of public interest prevents it being measured against its own standards, while its policy of open borders diffuses protest from a dissatisfied middle class. Ivan Krastev on reasons for authoritarianism's tenacity.[Romanian version added] [more]

06.10.2011


Miklós Haraszti

Notes on Hungary's media law package

(Updated following the agreement with the European Commission)

Hungary's media law could lead to a depoliticization of the media the likes of which exists in Russia and other post-Soviet democracies, writes the former OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media. The alterations to the law will do little to this halt this tendency. [more]

01.03.2011


Cornelia Klinger

Tricolour – three colours of justice

The modern notion of justice linked to ideas of human rights and democracy is highly complex, pulling in different directions. Cornelia Klinger explains how "justice" as we understand it today can be inferred from the conceptual trinity of the French Revolution. [Estonian version added] [more]

03.10.2011


Roman Frydman, Michael D. Goldberg

Market mysticism

Faith in the "efficient markets hypothesis" is largely to blame for the massive deregulation of the late 1990s and early 2000s that made the crisis more likely, if not inevitable. Two economists excoriate the ideology of self-regulating markets and its pseudo-scientific foundations. [more]

30.11.2010


Dipesh Chakrabarty

Brute force

The climate justice position is necessary but not sufficient for comprehending the current crisis, writes Dipesh Chakrabarty. As a geophysical force, the human species wields a new kind of agency unaccounted for in familiar narratives of the history of capitalist growth. [more]

07.10.2010


Faisal Devji

Loving the enemy: Al-Qaeda's vision of the West

9/11 organizer Khalid Sheikh Mohammed exploited his trial to remind the court of its human rights obligations, while Osama bin Laden's statements include appeals to religious pluralism. Al-Qaeda's use of liberal categories is central to its rhetoric, writes Faisal Devji. [German version added] [more]

24.08.2010


Timothy Snyder

Holocaust: The ignored reality

Auschwitz and the Gulag are generally taken to be adequate or even final symbols of the evil of mass slaughter. But they are only the beginning of knowledge, a hint of the true reckoning with the past still to come, writes Timothy Snyder. [more]

18.02.2010


Claus Offe

Lessons learned and open questions

The dissatisfaction expressed by the many not to have benefited from transition suggests post-communist welfare states have a long way to go before they attain western levels of credibility. Their democracies depend on that gap being bridged, argues Claus Offe. [Spanish version added] [more]

14.07.2011


Jacques Rupnik

The crisis and the end of liberalism in central Europe

Even as the state took over large portions of the private banking sector in the US and UK, politicians in central Europe were singing the praises of Anglo-Saxon market liberalism. They are the last orphans of Bush and Cheney, writes Jacques Rupnik. [Estonian version added] [more]

16.03.2011


Krzysztof Pomian

European identity: Historical fact and political problem

An historian can define European identity descriptively, as Krzysztof Pomian demonstrates in a tour of European culture since the first millennium BC. But the real controversy lies elsewhere, in the political question: what of the European past is worth preserving? [more]

24.08.2009


Krzysztof Michalski

The frailty of the whole

The thought of Leszek Kolakowski, who died on 17 July, is inscribed into the post-war memory of Poland, writes Krzysztof Michalski. Throughout the philosopher's varied intellectual trajectory, one theme persisted: that of human frailty. [more]

13.08.2009


Oliver Geden

Strategic consumption or sustainable policy?

The power of the "environmentally aware consumer" is overrated. A fundamental change in "material flow management" can only be achieved via blanket regulation, writes Oliver Geden. The new EU law on energy-saving bulbs lights the way. [more]

13.03.2009


Claus Leggewie, Harald Welzer

Can democracies deal with climate change?

Trust in the ability of political elites to deal with the eco-social consequences of climate change is evaporating. Reaching eco-political targets calls for more participation of citizens as active architects of their society, write Claus Leggewie and Harald Welzer. [more]

21.11.2008


Ivan Krastev

The crisis of the post-Cold War European order

Ivan Krastev argues that a policy of engagement focused on national interest and a radical turn from value-based foreign policy to nineteenth century Realpolitik is not a workable option for relations between Russia and the West. [more]

10.09.2008


Aleksander Smolar

Years of '68

The Western revolutionaries of '68 were often hostile towards supporters of the Warsaw March revolt and indifferent towards the subsequent "anti-Zionist" purges. Yet the events were disastrous for Polish Jews at the time and are still relevant forty years later. [more]

26.05.2008


Jacques Rupnik

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]

16.05.2008


Rudi Dutschke, Jacques Rupnik

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]

16.05.2008


Mykola Riabchuk

How I became a Czech and a Slovak

Mykola Riabchuk recalls how the politics of the Prague Spring filtered through to Ukraine until the crackdown on "bourgeois nationalism" five years later; and how, during perestroika, the roles were reversed and he brought banned literature to friends in Czechoslovakia. [more]

08.10.2008


Martin Hala

From "big character posters" to blogs

Facets of independent self-expression in China

Blogging in China has often been compared to samizdat publishing during the Cultural Revolution. Yet despite predictions to the contrary, the Internet has not brought abrupt political change in China. Its significance and implications for Chinese society lie elsewhere, writes Martin Hala. [more]

28.03.2008


Joschka Fischer

Not an island

Europe and the Middle East

Europe can play a major role in averting conflict in the Middle East, says Joschka Fischer. But does it have the instruments and institutions to do so? Given the urgency of the situation, can Europeans afford the luxury of being against Europe? [more]

14.03.2008


Jan-Werner Müller

European memory politics revisited

European commemorative culture is an integral component of the post-national process. But how can a "European memory" be justified if we aren't to refer to a continental, quasi-national entity? [more]

18.10.2007


Ivan Krastev

The populist moment

Unlike the extremist parties of the 1930s, the new populist movements do not aim to abolish democracy: quite the opposite, writes Ivan Krastev. What we are witnessing is a conflict between elites suspicious of democracy and increasingly illiberal publics. [more]

20.11.2008


Ralf Dahrendorf

Eight remarks on populism

A fissure has opened up between citizens and power, information gaps that invite conspiracy theories and patent recipes. The parliamentary process is empirically the best antidote to populism; its gradual erosion presents one of the greatest challenges to contemporary liberal politics. [more]

18.09.2007


Jacek Kochanowicz

Right turn

Polish politics at the beginning of the twenty-first century

Alternatives to the anti-communism and national conservatism of Poland's two main rightwing parties are barely offered by a Centre-Left tarnished by corruption scandals. With new elections set for 21 October, it seems unlikely that Poland will alter its course rightwards. [more]

20.11.2007


Jacques Rupnik

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? [more]

20.11.2007


Ulrike Brunotte

Martyrdom, patria, and the cult of dead warriors

Maleness and soteriology in war

The battle of Langemarck in 1914, in the course of which up to 20 000 German soldiers died, became a powerful myth of youth, honour, maleness, and martyrdom for National Socialism. The fascist slogan "Death lives!" expressed the transformation of biopower into "death power" in the racist model of the nation. [more]

21.08.2007


Oliver Krüger

Perfecting the human being

Death and immortality in post- and trans-humanism

Post- and trans-humanism's relentlessly utopian responses to the "problem of mortality" are the flipside to Günther Anders' diagnosis of "Promethian shame". [more]

16.08.2007


José Casanova

Religion, European secular identities and European integration

The rapid secularization of western Europe has not diminished the unease with which Europe considers Islam in its midst. In this benchmark essay, José Casanova argues that the "Islam problem" is an indicator of the disparity between liberal and illiberal strands of European secularism. Hungarian version added [more]

22.10.2010


Rainer Münz

Old Europe

A look ahead to the twenty-first century

With rising life expectancy, stagnating working-age populations, and low birth rates, Europe faces a demographic challenge over the next fifty years the likes of which it has never known. [more]

14.06.2007


Charles Hirschman

The impact of immigration on American society

Looking backward to the future

In a survey of the history of American immigration, Charles Hirschman points out that almost all popular fears about immigration and even the negative judgements of "experts" have been proven false by history. [more]

11.05.2007


Olivier Roy

Islamic evangelism

Islam in Europe

Religious and political radicalism among European Muslims is less an import from the cultures and conflicts of the Middle East than a consequence of the globalization and westernization of Islam, writes Olivier Roy. [Bosnian version added] [more]

10.05.2010


Nilüfer Göle

The Islamist identity

Islam, European public space, and civility

It is not distance from, but proximity to modern life that triggers a return to religious identity among migrant Muslims in Europe, says Nilüfer Göle. The religious self for individual Muslims is being shifted from the private to the public realm. [more]

03.05.2007


Ivaylo Ditchev

Utopia of freedom or reality of submission?

Large sections of the populations of countries at the peripheries of the EU are in permanent migratory motion. The trend towards overcoming arbitrary socio-political territories has its apotheosis in the Internet's utopian horizon of absolute mobility. [more]

19.04.2007


Jacques Rupnik

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. [more]

26.03.2007


Jan-Werner Müller

A "pause for thought" without the thought?

Possible ways to talk about the future of the EU today

The one-year "pause for thought" launched by Europe's elites after the rejection of the EU constitution in 2005 was extended in June 2006. This time could be used to discuss the pros and cons of competing Euro-visions, writes Jan-Werner Müller. [more]

11.05.2007


Claus Leggewie

Equally criminal?

Totalitarian experience and European memory

Political differences between European member states can be worked out only if a "European memory" is developed. The difficulty lies in paying due respect to the memory of the crimes both of Nazism and of Soviet totalitarianism while avoiding a hierarchy of competing victim groups. [more]

02.04.2007


Aleksander Smolar

The return of the radicals

The radical government stems from that section of the Solidarity movement opposed to the route transformation took after 1989. Their cultural conservatism has landed on fertile ground in a contemporary Poland suffering from social alienation and distrust in democratic institutions [more]

28.09.2006


Olivier Mongin, Jean-Louis Schlegel

The legislation of 1905

Should France's laws from 1905 regulating laïcité be reformed after a century of changes in the religious composition of French society? [more]

15.09.2006


Philipp Ther

The burden of history and the trap of memory

The displacement of Germans at the end of WWII has re-entered the public debate with the TV drama "Die Flucht" [The escape]. Philipp Ther discusses the reasons for the shift in the way the German wartime past is being remembered. [more]

21.08.2006


Abdesselam Cheddadi

The question of tolerance in Islamic societies

Today's Muslim societies must consider afresh the question of tolerance, and ask why they find themselves mired in indecision and resentment, says Abdesselam Cheddadi. [more]

29.01.2007


Danièle Hervieu-Léger

The role of religion in establishing social cohesion

Nostalgia about a religious past will not help solve the question of a "European soul". Instead, the weakening of religion could prove a starting point for a reconsideration of Europe's religious heritage. [more]

02.10.2006


Roman Szporluk

The western dimension of the making of modern Ukraine

The history of Ukrainian independence begins with the revolution in 1848, and thereafter is shaped by European and Russian interests. [more]

22.07.2005


Timothy Snyder

Balancing the books

Sixty years and more since the end of WWII, eastern European experiences of subjugation are often glossed over. This creates misunderstandings that could be avoided by an awareness of a common European history. Then, solidarity rather than national prejudice would motivate public opinion on matters of European politics. [more]

22.04.2009


Pierre Nora

Reasons for the current upsurge in memory

Over the past quarter century, social structures have undergone a sea change in their traditional relationship to the past. Pierre Nora examines the roots and causes of "memorialism". [more]

08.10.2007


Tatiana Zhurzhenko

Is Ukraine heading for breakup?

Parts of Ukraine threaten to seek autonomy from the capital Kiev. Tatiana Zhurzhenko looks at what is behind these threats. How big is the risk of Ukraine falling apart? [more]

19.01.2005


Timothy Snyder

Ukraine: an opportunity for Europe

There are moments in history when one must think broadly and ambitiously. To secure democracy in Ukraine is certainly in the interest of the European Union, writes Timothy Snyder. It is also a test for a Europe that wishes to play a role in the world. [more]

26.11.2004


Oksana Zabuzhko

Ukraine's Solidarity

Ukrainian author Oksana Zabuzhko walks the streets of Kiev and witnesses an unprecedented upsurge of national solidarity. "To put it simply," she writes, "'they' are the power - the most widely hated power in Ukraine since Soviet times. And 'we' - we are the people." [more]

26.11.2004


Tymofiy Havryliv

The second turning point

The Ukrainians fight for their right to a democratic state

What we see in the Ukraine today is a second turning point. Without a democratic and European Ukraine, Europe risks being brought back to the times of the Cold War. [more]

24.11.2004


Slavenka Drakulic

Triumph of evil

Portrait of a war criminal

Slavenka Draculic on Radislav Krstic, the first war criminal to be indicted in The Hague for his role in the Srebrenica massacre. [more]

12.02.2004


Petya Kabakchieva

Eurolocal perspectives towards the EU

Imagining the European Union as a nation-state

In Bulgaria, the EU has replaced the nation-state as a symbol of authority. Nevertheless, regional identity won't get lost, since regions "are a configuration of liminalities that overlap and accrue, providing different options". [more]

09.01.2007


Nelly Bekus-Goncharova

An invisible wall

The hidden factor of Belarusian reality

Who is to blame for the political stagnation in Belarus? [more]

09.03.2004


Roman Szporluk

Why Ukrainians are Ukrainians

A Commentary on Mykola Riabchuk's "Ukraine: One State, two Countries"?

What does it take to build a civil society in the Ukraine? [more]

15.07.2003


Mykola Riabchuk

Ukraine: One State, Two Countries?

Does the Ukrainian political elite use the country's deep sense of political ambivalence to stay in power? [more]

14.07.2003


Tatiana Zhurzhenko

The myth of two Ukraines

A Commentary on Mykola Riabchuk's "Ukraine: One State, two Countries"?

Can the Ukraine overcome the rift between the 'europeanized' West and the 'russified' East of the country? [more]

14.07.2003


Krzysztof Pomian

Western prejudices, Polish fears

Who's afraid of the European enlargement? [more]

30.06.2003


Joanna Tokarska-Bakir

Poland as the sick man of Europe?

Jedwabne, "post-memory" and historians

Joanna Tokarska-Bakir investigates the defence mechanisms triggered by the European past: on the one hand the Holocaust guilt-complex and on the other the language historians use to talk about it. [more]

30.05.2003


Jacqueline Hénard

Right wing populism as class struggle

France after April 21st

Where did it all go wrong for the French political elite? [more]

15.05.2003


Claus Leggewie

Transnational movements and the question of democracy

Social movements can provide an early warning system to mainstream politics. But once institutionalized, their lack of democratic mandate raises problems of legitimacy. This paradox must be negotiated if democracy is to respond to the global situation. [more]

20.05.2005


Jacques Rupnik

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]

05.02.2003


Richard Hyman

Where Does Solidarity End?

What changes do trade unions need to implement in order to construct a meaningful and just framework for today's workforce? [more]

28.11.2002


Alexei Miller

The Communist Past in Post-Communist Russia

Alexei Miller on the flaws, achievements, problems and development of Russia's process of dealing with its Communist past. [more]

24.05.2002


Anatoly M Khazanov

Contemporary Russian Nationalism between East and West

In the current Russian conditions of social and political fragmentation, nationalism has - inevitably - become a very important factor in the country's development, writes A. Khazanov. [more]

08.03.2002


Jacek Kochanowicz

Poland: In or Out?

Where is the West of Europe and where is its East? At hand of the Polish example, Jacek Kochanowicz looks at an elusive border that remains difficult to draw on either side of a country. [more]

26.02.2002


Daniel Chirot

Returning to Reality

Culture, Modernisation and Various Eastern Europes

Daniel Chirot warns that the differentiation between "East" and "Central" Europe draws a new border between "East" and "West" which will result in excluding the poorer parts of Europe and will keep them poorer in delaying their modernisation. [more]

11.01.2002


Jacques Rupnik

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]

07.09.2001


Jyoti Mistry

(Hi)Story, Truth and Nation

Building a "new" South Africa

Story-telling as a major component of building a national identity, the definitions of nations and nation states as well as the significance of history and memory are the building blocks that need to be considered in understanding how South Africa will develop a "new" identity. [more]

01.04.2001


Thomas Schramme

Tainted Humanity

The Dilemma of Military Interventions

As a response to the NATO intervention in Kosovo, a debate erupted as to the moral basis of humanitarian interventions: How can one reconcile the fact that the defence of one group's rights endangers those of another? [more]

01.04.2001


Ernest Gellner

Religion and the profane

"The difference between the success of Islam and the failure of Marxism is that [...] Islam never claimed that work is sacred." Ernest Gellner, speaking in 1995, draws surprising comparisons between Marxism and Islam. [more]

06.11.2006


Danuta Beata Pawlak

Jeans and Veils

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Europe after the Kosovo War

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11.07.2000


Charles Taylor

Democratic exclusion - and its consequences

Democracy as a political model demands, more than anything else, inclusion. However it also contains a dynamic of exclusion. Charles Taylor asks how this tendency can be counteracted. [more]

08.04.2004


Joana Breidenbach, Ina Zukrigl

In the Prism of the Local

As globalisation takes root, local traditions and forms of life vanish faster than they did before. Simultaneously, we find better ways of reserving those lost traditions. Forms of life are not erased in creolised culture, they take on new and integrating shapes. [more]

11.07.2000


Pal Nyiri

New Asian Migration to Eastern Europe

The Case of the Chinese in Hungary

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Territorialism and Globalism

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