http://www.eurozine.com Eurozine - the netmagazine publishes original texts on the most pressing issues of our times. We also present articles and reviews published in our partner magazines. The articles are available in several languages to open up a new public sphere for communication and debate. en netmagazine, articles and reviews Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:31:26 +0200 Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:31:26 +0200 http://www.eurozine.com/bravenewworld/RSS-Feed.html publick.net feed me ch.fredriksson@eurozine.com office@eurozine.com http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2009-07-03-ilves-en.html 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". Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:31:26 +0200 Toomas Hendrik Ilves en http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2009-07-02-simecka-lt.html The dissident generation of the 1970s and 1980s produced a body of work unprecedented in Czech history. Yet its monumentality stands in the way of an uncompromised interpretation of the communist past, argues Martin Simecka. [Lithuanian version added] Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:31:26 +0200 Martin M. Simecka lt http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2009-07-01-jonsson-en.html Nordic countries might not have a "classical" colonial past, writes Stefan Jonsson, yet a "northern colonialism" does exist. Any understanding of it must start with Nordic culture's view of nature and the myth of the "first man". Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:31:26 +0200 Stefan Jonsson en http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2009-06-29-zhurzhenko-uk.html The controversy around the statue of the Soviet soldier in Tallinn in April 2007 provided a striking demonstration that memory politics is less about the communist past than about future political and economic hegemony on the European continent. [Ukrainian version added] Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:31:26 +0200 Tatiana Zhurzhenko uk http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2009-06-25-snyder-en.html 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 the true reckoning with the past still to come, writes historian Timothy Snyder. Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:31:26 +0200 Timothy Snyder en http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2009-06-25-boutang-fr.html As the internet becomes as ubiquitous and invisible as electricity, the limits of engines such as Google need to be questioned, write Ariel Kyrou and Yann Moulier Boutang. Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:31:26 +0200 Ariel Kyrou, Yann Moulier Boutang fr http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2009-06-24-eurozinerev-en.html "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. Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:31:26 +0200 Eurozine Review en http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2009-06-23-wobbe-de.html Georg Simmel's concept of "society as unity of the diversity of forms and degrees of sociality" opens up a non-national perspective on society. What is the structure of the sociality of the EU and what are the social forms that allow for a self-stabilization of this system? Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:31:26 +0200 Theresa Wobbe de http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2009-06-23-wiedemannc-de.html Although the EU cannot keep people from sticking to their West African traditions of mobility, EU member-states apply every possible means to achieve their aim: to prevent Africans from entering the EU, writes Charlotte Wiedemann. Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:31:26 +0200 Charlotte Wiedemann de http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2009-06-19-haraszti-en.html A new UN proposal condemning "defamation of religion" cements oppressive governments' control of free speech while still sounding compatible with the advanced multiculturalism of liberal democracies, writes Miklós Haraszti. Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:31:26 +0200 Miklós Haraszti en http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2009-06-18-farkas-en.html Despite the horror-stories, Hungary's budget deficit at 3 per cent of GDP and its public debt at just above 70 per cent do not fare too badly in a global comparison. "So what's our problem?", asks Zoltán Farkas. Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:31:26 +0200 Zoltán Farkas en http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2009-06-17-newsitem-en.html "Blätter" celebrates Jürgen Habermas' eightieth birthday on 18 June with an issue dedicated to the influential social philosopher. With contributions from Seyla Benhabib, Axel Honneth, Oskar Negt and others. Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:31:26 +0200 Eurozine News Item en http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2009-06-16-plesu-en.html "The Left is impudent, cheeky," writes Romanian philosopher Andrei Plesu in "Dilema veche". "It hides the Gulag behind a veil of 'historical necessity'." A provocative statement that has prompted a response from the Hungarian political scientist G.M. Tamás. Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:31:26 +0200 Andrei Plesu en http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2009-06-16-tamas-en.html "Undoubtedly, leftwingers exist who can find excuses for the Soviet penal universe. But I don't regularly discuss matters with them". G.M. Tamás responds to Andrei Plesu's assertion that "The Left [...] hides the Gulag behind a veil of 'historical necessity'." Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:31:26 +0200 G.M. Tamás en http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2009-06-16-plesu1-en.html "Undoubtedly, leftwingers exist who can find excuses for the Soviet penal universe. But I don't regularly discuss matters with them". Thus responded G.M. Tamás to Andrei Plesu's assertion that "The Left [...] hides the Gulag behind a veil of 'historical necessity'." Plesu adds a concluding comment. Fri, 03 Jul 2009 22:31:26 +0200 Andrei Plesu en