Since 2020’s ‘revolution with a female face’, Lukashenka has ramped up his neo-Soviet family policy while continuing to persecute women disobedient to his regime.
Articles
Despite a transatlantic exchange of far-right ideology, material interests are what bind the international of nationalists. Transatlantic patterns in far-right strategy do not add up to rightwing populist tide, argues Jan-Werner Müller in interview with Vikerkaar magazine.
Starving ethnic Ukrainians and Moldovans, fleeing 1930s collectivisation, became controversial refugees in Romania – if, that is, they survived Soviet riverside gunfire. The international press and politicians expressed outrage – until the Nazi regime became a greater threat, leaving Holodomor sufferers overshadowed by distant enthusiasm for Stalin’s Five-Year Plan.
Putting food on tables throughout Estonia’s Soviet era into nascent capitalism relied heavily on self-provisioning. Collectivisation’s ideological petro-chemical drive made retro modernity a repeated necessity. A family-orientated culture of small-scale farming became the staple of migratory generations and national productivity.
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The vilification of Orbán in Europe became politically counter-productive in Hungary itself. Péter Magyar’s success is founded on a realistic appraisal of the concerns of Hungarian society rather than a moralistic politics of blame.
The US-Israel war on Iran has exposed, and exacerbated, fault lines in the Iranian diaspora. A personal account of altercation in Sweden highlights the fervour of pro-monarchists versus the dislocation and loss inflicted by escalated violence.
Originally an expression of minority awareness, the term ‘woke’ has been forced into a cultural corner. The European far right’s instrumentalization of difference as a threat to national identity leaves immigrants, Romani, Muslims, LGBTQIA+ people in an increasingly vulnerable position. How could this entrenched culture war be infused with democratic vitality?
Habermas’s appeal for negotiation with the Putin regime stemmed from a failure to comprehend the eastern European experience of totalitarianism. Why the argument that regime change is not a legitimate policy option for the West is historically misguided. [Norwegian version added]
Eurozine review
Havel in Davos
Host 5/2026
How the Iranian regime co-opts women’s football; Snyder on Mark Carney’s Havel; a poet on the beauty of sign language.
How small states survive
Vikerkaar 4-5/2026
Why the rules-based order was never pure fiction; what Europe must do to remain non-aligned; lessons from Greenland.
When human rights end
New Eastern Europe 3/2026
Of course human rights still matter; the sexism behind the ‘year of the Belarusian woman’; Ukraine’s election dilemma.
Focal points
Cultural reflections on contemporary warfare: from sanctions, human rights abuses and peace negotiations to recruitment, rearmament, autonomous weapons and civil protection mechanisms.
An ongoing series in Eurozine discussing questions raised by the 7 October Hamas attacks and Israel’s devastating war on Gaza. The series offers a sample of articles published in the wider Eurozine network and represents diverse perspectives, including above all Israeli and Palestinian.
Post-revolutionary Ukrainian society displays a unique mix of hope, enthusiasm, social creativity, collective trauma of war, radicalism and disillusionment. With the Maidan becoming history, the focal point ‘Ukraine in European Dialogue’ explores the new challenges facing the young democracy, its place in Europe, and the lessons it might offer for the future of the European project.
Inspired by a lecture that Clifford Geertz delivered in 1995 at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna, this focal point engages with ‘deep diversity’, ‘a sense of dispersion, of particularity, of complexity and of uncenteredness’ rather than unified world order. It follows the launch of a research programme of the same name at the institute in January 2023.
