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Russia Is No Upper Volta With Nuclear Weapons
MEP Alexandr Vondra is unequivocally in favour of helping Ukraine and its admission to NATO and the European Union, but only when the war is over. He is convinced that the Union will turn to the…
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Czecho-Slovakia, a country divided thirty years ago for nothing
On Saturday January 21st, 2023 I voluntarily headed to Forum Karlín – a concert hall situated right next to “Havel-friendly“ publishing house Economia – both as a journalist and,…
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Kazakhstan and the West: a strategic opportunity
Kazakhstan is a country of great strategic significance that is often overlooked. Recently, despite close relations with Putin’s Russia, it has succeeded in standing apart and above the fray. The…
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Giorgi Badridze: Georgia Will Do Everything Not To Irritate Russia
“For many years my country was a leader in reforms and getting closer to the West. Now it is trailing behind,” says Giorgi Badridze, former ambassador to Turkey and the UK, in an interview with…
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Ideas Health: Solutions to our complex problems do exist, but they require hard work
Last June Jakub Hlávka, Assistant Research Professor at the University of Southern California, had a chance to attend the Aspen Ideas Festival in Aspen, Colorado. Out of the sixty various panels…
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Madeleine Albright’s Potent Legacy for Women
By the time Madeleine Albright declared, in 2006, that “there is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women,” her record spoke for itself. For Albright, this was not just a quip; it…
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Illiberal Democracy, Season Three
In “Democracy Against Liberalism” the author argues that there are three important political spectra: democracy versus authoritarianism, liberalism versus absolutism and technocracy versus populism.…
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Streams Falling Into One River: A Threat to Democracy
The American political system is in the most serious crisis in decades, argue Ivan Hodac and Rüdiger Lentz in a double interview with Łukasz Pawłowski. The roots of this crisis go much deeper, they…
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Ursula von der Leyen: Democracy is what we make of it!
Speeaking about democratic values, Europe’s future challenges and the question of why Europe is simply the best place to live in the world—Ursula von der Leyen has been President of the European…
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Hyperdemocracy
Is a rising tide of authoritarianism sweeping across the globe, or are we actually in a hyper-charged era of democracy? As people choose their governments – not just by voting but by moving into like…