Women will shake and reverse public opinion about this war

Russian anti-war feminists are challenging Putin’s regime by specifically appealing to women over 45. This underrepresented group, they believe, are victims of propaganda. In quickly motivating a non-radical newspaper campaign, …

Datum publikace:
1. 11. 2022
Autor článku:
Eurozine

The war in Russia will decide

With his threat to use nuclear weapons, Putin is engaging the Western public in a psychological game designed to cloud their judgment. If we want to know how the war …

Datum publikace:
1. 11. 2022
Autor článku:
Timothy Snyder

Demodernization by missiles

Infrastructure in eastern Ukraine has been decimated; business and manufacturing displaced; cultural artifacts destroyed; communities disrupted and families bereaved. In light of all this, the discussion about what Ukraine stands …

Datum publikace:
24. 10. 2022
Autor článku:
Eurozine

Should we be afraid of the new European right?

The specter of far-right nationalist populism sweeping through Europe and the United States has many faces and shades. Leaving aside the neo-Nazi and neo-fascist groups that remain on the fringes …

Datum publikace:
24. 10. 2022
Autor článku:
Jiří Pehe

Europe, forever staggering

“The League of Nations … (assists) as a tribune, and then as an archive for signed documents: nothing more!”, the Paris correspondent Pavel Spiess bemoaned on 10 September 1930 in …

Datum publikace:
17. 10. 2022
Autor článku:
Ivan Štern

A double-edged eco sword

Climate change affects us all yet not equally. The plight of those forced to migrate as a result – often called ‘climate refugees’, though not officially – has become contested …

Datum publikace:
17. 10. 2022
Autor článku:
Eurozine

Decentralizing the Cold War

When Boris Yeltsin told George Bush in 1991 that the USSR couldn’t exist without Ukraine, he wasn’t referring to the economy: culturally, Russia would have been isolated. Today, the same …

Datum publikace:
10. 10. 2022
Autor článku:
Eurozine

British political supermarket

When the leaves start to wet the tracks in September/October, the season of delayed trains and annual conferences of the main political parties begins in England. The usual inner reticence …

Datum publikace:
10. 10. 2022
Autor článku:
Ivan Kytka

When fascism is female

Giorgia Meloni could become Italy’s first female prime minister. Her political rise is no isolated case: ‘femonationalism’ is flourishing throughout Europe, disguising extremes as the next socially acceptable, mainstream choice. …

Datum publikace:
3. 10. 2022
Autor článku:
Vydavatelství M. J. Stránského

Russian Eurasianism or Why they don’t like the West

Although Valery Vilinsky, a native of Odessa and a lifelong exile, categorically rejected Eurasianism and was convinced that Russia belonged to the West, his study Eurasianism, which he wrote for …

Datum publikace:
3. 10. 2022
Autor článku:
Ivan Štern

Poland: a stable partner of China in Europe 

The shrinking “16+1” group will not leave Poland anytime soon. At the end of July, Polish President Andrzej Duda had a phone call with Chinese President and General Secretary of …

Datum publikace:
26. 9. 2022
Autor článku:
Łukasz Sarek

Energy and existence

PEN Ukraine conversations With Russia closing its gas pipeline to Europe, predicted economic downturns have hit the markets. Skyrocketing energy bills mean production cuts and job losses, as well as …

Datum publikace:
26. 9. 2022
Autor článku:
Eurozine

Elizabeth II – Queen of the Television Age

In the flood of tributes to the late British monarch, it has been somewhat lost in the shuffle that the institution of the royal family and its associated outward image …

Datum publikace:
19. 9. 2022
Autor článku:
Ivan Kytka

“Honey for the dead”

“Honey for the dead”   “A period of enforced mourning” The bees at the checkpoints Honey for the dead   Michael March

Datum publikace:
19. 9. 2022
Autor článku:
Michael March

Death of the Queen

Queen Elizabeth has died. Through her demeanor, propriety, steadfastness and unwavering service — and simply by being there for so many years — Queen Elizabeth came to define the constitutional monarch …

Datum publikace:
12. 9. 2022
Autor článku:
Martin Jan Stránský

America is not at war in Ukraine, it is fighting Russia 

Half a year has passed since Vladimir Putin launched his war against Ukraine. It’s a European war, but the one who has been instrumental in helping the bravely fighting Ukrainians …

Datum publikace:
29. 8. 2022
Autor článku:
Daniel Anýž

Fighting for Roma identity

This year’s Venice Biennale proudly features a Roma Pavilion. But Roma people are still often underrepresented. Romania’s recent population census was an opportunity for minorities to acknowledge their identity, and …

Datum publikace:
29. 8. 2022
Autor článku:
Eurozine

Russia is economically on its knees. Really.

Not only by pro-Russian trolls and useful idiots, but by many people who “mean well”, we have been fed for some time now with the claim that the sanctions applied …

Datum publikace:
15. 8. 2022
Autor článku:
Ivan Štern

Strategies of unimaginable crime

While Zelensky calls for Ukrainian civilians to flee eastern Donetsk, under ongoing attack from Russia’s military, Putin maintains that his forces are liberating the region. Propaganda that turns conflict into …

Datum publikace:
15. 8. 2022
Autor článku:
Eurozine