Hans-Hermann Tiedje, former advisor to Helmut Kohl, has entered the debate about German culpability in the current war in Ukraine. It is the biggest mistake in the history of the …
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When self care is guilty pleasure
Testimonies of women in war Who can focus on interior design after the massacres of Mariupol, Borodyanka and Bucha? Ukrainian women tell how their relationships with self-care, beauty and consumerism were …
Migrant women staying behind
Out of cities and work, India´s working women struggle to rebuild their lives. Millions of internal migrants were sent back to their homes across India since the first coronavirus lockdowns. …
When vegetarians get a craving for meat
The war in Ukraine is strengthening Europe’s internal constitutionalism. It redefines the East-West divide and replaces the conventional Cold War narrative with one of decolonization. In 1995, American anthropologist Clifford …
Russia and China – Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Russia and China are working together to limit US influence. They claim that real democracy is in their countries, not in the US. The former regards Ukraine as its errant …
No empire without end
Putin’s Ukraine war is drawing a curtain on ‘Pax Rossica’, the notion that Russia can dominate the post-Soviet Eurasian landmass. The Kremlin’s strategy has changed since it failed to gain …
The disintegration of America and the American Ideal
The news in America is full of the recent ruling by the Supreme Court, which in a landmark decision, overturned the 50-year-old right of women to have an abortion. The …
How fetal politics stole Americans’ reproductive rights
The US Supreme Court has overturned two landmark cases that protected a woman’s rights over her own body for 50 years. How did ‘fetal politics’ — a political movement that …
Fighting fatigue
The unspoken aspect of war It’s easy to get exhausted soon after startling news breaks. But dealing with a limited attention span is only one side of the tiredness that …
Reflections of the Russian Empire
The generation of late baby boomers to which I belong is unlikely to see normalized relations or even friendly relations with Russia. This is not a step into the unknown …
Second return to Europe
The second Czech presidency of the European Union will be little burdened by the memory of the inglorious end of the first attempt, when we finally sweetened the deal for …
Making sense of the war
As the shock of war gives way to reflection, Ukrainian public discourse has turned to questions of the past, present and future: When did Russia’s war on Ukraine start? What …
Metaverse wars
War becomes the twin of communication: the development of media has not only changed how warfare is reported, but also how it’s fought. The working rule of the warriors is …
Betrayal of the Conservatives or Democracy in Peril
In the beginning was (…) Adenauer. So might begin a “scripture” on the history of the early Federal Republic. After 1949, the first Federal Chancellor, whom no one knows today, …
Why Germans don’t talk about fascist Russia
Why was the German government and much of the German public so surprised by the invasion and Russian atrocities? Why did it take three months for the German public to …
The names of us – How Russians are destroying national diversity in Ukraine
Afina, Usein, Maria, Jasim – a Greek Roumean, a Crimean Tatar, a Swede and a Turkish-Meskhetian, all from Ukraine, all living on the edge – when the attack on nationals, …
Losses and finds of Central Europe
Russia’s war against Ukraine is an attempt to settle outstanding post-imperial scores and consolidate spheres of influence. It is also about real and perceived cultural and political boundaries in Europe, …
The justice train from Bucha
The egregious crimes against Ukraine’s civilian population might just be too much for the International Criminal Court to handle. Not only does it lack resources but it also doesn’t have …
Defined by silence
The Ukrainian art that was destroyed – and the art that never happened Ukrainian artists are struggling to invent a new language to express their experience of the war, one …