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Since the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, we have witnessed unprecedented solidarity with the war refugees fleeing the invaded country. This solidarity is also being shown by Czech society, …
A month into Russia’s invasion, is the EU ready for the challenge? Russia’s war on Ukraine is clearly an attack on the whole of Europe, but domestic responses are still …
Whoever is looking for an answer to the question of just what is the responsibility of a doctor in the approach to treatment of the patient of today can easily …
Can a kleptocracy have national interests? Russia has no national interests, not even in Ukraine. Russians are denied subjectivity, the means of making rational and responsible decisions. Instead, they have …
Europe is facing a vast humanitarian crisis. This time, there is a good chance that governments will rise to the challenge. If only because it is all too clear that …
Nationalism is disappearing, democracy is inevitable, nuclear war can’t happen: Ukraine shows old certainties were wrong I used to believe several things about the 21st century that Vladimir Putin’s invasion …
Is the Ukraine crisis a turning point in world history? And is this also a potential wake-up call for the “liberal American-dominated Western world order,” due to a conflict whose …
Following the Second World War, the standard German explanation as to events was, that nobody knew anything and that they all just did as they were told. Today, German politicians …
This terrifying, world-changing conflict in Ukraine did not start in 2022. Nor did it start in 2014. It began a decade and a half ago when Russia invaded Georgia and …
When war becomes a reality, time is of the essence. Slow political responses raise questions about underlying reasons for reluctance. And as Russia wages war on Ukraine, how the situation …
Russia’s war with Ukraine is in full swing. By now, everyone has figured out that Putin planned the war all along, that he repeatedly lied with a straight face, claiming …
It was only after the annexation of Crimea in 2014 that NATO broke off cooperation with Russia. Until then, Ukrainians themselves were largely against NATO membership. To frame NATO as …
The strange tragedy of Angela Merkel’s Ostpolitik in 2005–2021 was that the highly intelligent and committed chancellor showed herself incapable of departing from the wrong track in Germany’s Russia policy …
But there are no Churchills, either. And Ukraine will fight alone. In 1938, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain arrived home from a conference in Munich. He and other leaders had …
How Afghan refugees aren’t offered real solutions More than half a million Afghans were displaced in 2021, adding to many more forced to flee over decades of uninterrupted violence. But …
Dear reader, In light of the present situation in Ukraine, TNP presents three pieces by local journalists „on the ground” covering different viewpoints of the situation. Powerless Ukraine Struggling to …
When I discuss the energy crisis with others, it always comes down to the point, that we’ll have to start cutting back. But the question is, what exactly will we …
“Conflict is a theme that has occupied the thinking of men more than any other, save only God and love.” Anatol Rapoport What is a conflict? Is conflict always undesirable? …
A journalist who signed the Cursor code in Presence on Thursday, October 23, 1924, on page 642, questioned whether politics had any logic. If so, then the logic is unique. …