EUROZINE ist ein Netzwerk von rund 70 europäischen Zeitungen und Magazinen aus fast allen europäischen Ländern Artikelsuche in EUROZINE mit dem Begriff "Georgien">> Memorial National images of the pastThe twentieth century and the "war of memories". An appeal by the International Memorial Society If contradictions between national memories are recognized and understood, the historical awareness of each society is enriched. Eurozine republishes a call by the International Memorial Society for the creation of a platform upon which such a dialogue can be conducted. [more] 05.12.2008
· De Memorial National images of the pastThe twentieth century and the "war of memories". An appeal by the International Memorial Society If contradictions between national memories are recognized and understood, the historical awareness of each society is enriched. Eurozine republishes a call by the International Memorial Society for the creation of a platform upon which such a dialogue can be conducted. [more] 05.12.2008
· De Reinhard Mutz The end of humilityAfter Georgia, the Kremlin is back in the dock. Yet many western states have themselves been less than squeamish about military intervention. The West should talk more to Russia and less about it. [more] 21.10.2008
· De Ivan Krastev The crisis of the post-Cold War European orderIvan Krastev argues that a policy of engagement focused on national interest and a radical turn from value-based foreign policy to nineteenth century Realpolitik is not a workable option for relations between Russia and the West. [English version added] [more] 10.09.2008
· De Hauke Ritz The global chessboardThe new cold war of Obama's adviser Zbigniew Brezinski Barack Obama's main geostrategic adviser, the Cold Warrior Zbigniew Brzezinski, believes that if America is to remain a superpower, it must expand its influence in Eurasia and confront both Russia and China. [more] 17.07.2008
· De Dmitrii Furman Russia at the crossroadsLogic and the end of "imitation democracy" The Belavezha Accords in 1991, which dissolved the USSR without a democratic mandate, condemned subsequent presidents to rule by "imitated democracy". Putin's decision to step down after two terms has given Russia a chance to depart from that path of development, argues Dmitri Furman. [more] 23.04.2008
· De Vladislav Inosemzev The Putin regimeThe managed transition from Putin to Medvedev conceals a necessary insight: that the principles of the Putin regime are fundamentally unsustainable, since they combine a nostalgic view of the past with purely cyclical economic successes. [more] 11.03.2008
· De Vicken Cheterian Georgia: Too little changeIn Georgia, an elite of Rose Revolutionaries is working to impose social engineering on the rest of society. Just how democratic are Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili's "top-down" social transformations? [more] 24.07.2007
· De Lilia Shevtsova Russia's will to world powerAutocracy, energy, ideology Until now, Russia and the West have been imitating "strategic partnership". To create a genuinely stable partnership, however, the US must reverse its drive towards military hegemony. For its part, Russia must make the transition to fully democratic standards. [more] 16.05.2007
· De Georg Vobruba Expansion without enlargementEurope's dynamism and the EU's neighbourhood policy In order to protect its core, the EU is creating a buffer zone at its periphery. But these states are perceived as a source of problems as much as a solution. [English version added] [more] 28.09.2007
· De Lev Gudkov Russia's systemic crisisNegative mobilization and collective cynicism Russia is degenerating into a police state, society has descended into poverty, and the country is becoming increasingly isolated, writes Lev Gudkov. Worse still: the Russian public is united only in the view that talk of common goals is the empty rhetoric of demagogues. [more] 13.09.2007
· De Thomas von Ahn Democracy or the street?On the stability of the Hungarian political system The demonstrations in Budapest in September 2006 marked the culmination of a conflict between Conservatives and the liberal Left. The rift is exacerbated by politicized disputes about the past, argues Thomas von Ahn. [more] 07.05.2007
· De Dmitrii Furman Origins and elements of imitated democraciesOn political development in the post-Soviet space Throughout the territory of the former Soviet Union, regimes have established themselves behind a democratic facade while concentrating power in the hands of a president. Contrary to their purported stability, all contain the seeds of their own downfall. [English version added] [more] 09.10.2007
· De Hans-Georg Wieck Democracy promotion at a dead endEurope is failing in Belarus European charters for democratic reform have run aground in Belarus. Expressions of solidarity are not enough: Europe needs to adopt the US strategy of promoting the opposition directly. [Belarusian version added] [more] 07.02.2007
· De Margarete Wiest Limited pluralismPost-communist authoritarian systems In the study of post-communist societies, the concept of authoritarianism is increasingly being used in connection with underdeveloped legal systems, the close alliance of politics and the economy, and lack of pluralism. [more] 08.09.2006
· Sv Tatiana Zhurzhenko Roses, oranges... and cocaWhat remains of revolutions in the globalized world? Unlike the Orange revolutionaries, Bolivian president Evo Morales challenges the global hierarchy -- hence his lukewarm reception in the West. [more] 27.06.2006
· De Ulrich Schmid Nasi: the Putin youthSoviet tradition and political conceptual art The pro-Putin youth movement Nasi (Ours) is a hierarchical organization that combines structures of the Komsomol with activities inspired by the dissident conceptual art of the 1970s and 1980s. [more] 12.06.2006
· De Alexandre Billette, Jean-Arnault Dérens How Belarus elects LukashenkoEveryone knew that the presidential elections would be manipulated. However, many Belarusians hope that the last dictatorship in Europe will end soon. [more] 14.03.2006
· De Mischa Gabowitsch At the margins of EuropeRussia and Turkey November 2005 saw the opening of the monumental Blue Stream pipeline, which pumps natural gas from Russia across the Black Sea to the Turkish Mediterranean coast. Is a new Eurasian alliance forming at the margins of Europe? [more] 07.04.2006
· De Sonja Margolina Shadow-state GaspromSince 2001, rising oil prices have lent the Kremlin ever increasing confidence. Today, Russian oil concern Gasprom is the real Russian state, using its pipelines as an instrument of control over neighbouring countries. [more] 18.11.2005
· De Marcus Bensmann Democrats, clans, and apparatchiksThe revolt in Kyrgyzstan in March 2005 and the massacre in Andijan in Uzbekistan have led to very different developments. In Kyrgyzstan, it looks as though a civil society could develop from the chaos. In Uzbekistan, the old despotic regime could use the brutal suppression of insurgency to tighten its stranglehold. [more] 20.10.2005
· De Augusta Conchiglia Mugabe's iron handZimbabwe's government fights homelessness by tearing down houses "Operation cleanup", begun in Zimbabwe in April 2005, is forcing hut-dwellers to dismantle their homes; the UN estimates around 2.4 million people have been affected so far. The pretext is urban renewal, but the real reasons are likely to be political: land will be re-allocated to Mugabe supporters in order to pre-empt a popular revolt. [more] 21.09.2005
· De Boris Dubin, Lev Gudkov The oligarch as public enemyHow the Khodorkovsky case benefits the Putin regime Cynicism, argue Gudkov and Dubin, is eroding the foundations of the Putin regime and destabilizing its system of controlled democracy. [more] 31.08.2005
· De Reinhold Vetter Who are the true Europeans?Central eastern Europe and the EU crisis The current crisis of the EU represents a chance for the new member states. Central eastern Europe can start to act as a centre for reforms that will define the future form of the European Union. [more] 08.08.2005
· De Alain Gresh Lebanon's democracy without democratsLittle remains of the revolutionary mood of the "cedar revolution" that followed the murder of Rafik Hariri in March. Meanwhile, fears grow that sectarianism is just what US foreign policy desires. [more] 17.06.2005
· De Rafael Kandiyoti Pipelines in permafrostRussia delivers oil and gas. China, Japan, and Korea want as much of it as possible A look at Putin's policies and the supply and demand of oil in the Far East. [more] 20.05.2005
· De Lev Gudkov The fetters of victoryHow the war provides Russia with its identity On the symbolic role of the Great Patriotic War in propping up national confidence, and how the taboo on the underside of victory serves the interests of the post-Soviet social order. [more] 03.05.2005
· De Mykola Riabchuk Ukraine at the crossroadsCan a state based on blackmail be reformed? What will it take to really change the Ukrainian political system? [more] 18.05.2005
· Sv Tatiana Zhurzhenko Is Ukraine heading for breakup?Parts of Ukraine threaten to seek autonomy from the capital Kiev. Tatiana Zhurzhenko looks at what is behind these threats. How big is the risk of Ukraine falling apart? [more] 19.01.2005
· De Tatiana Zhurzhenko Is Ukraine heading for breakup?Parts of Ukraine threaten to seek autonomy from the capital Kiev. Tatiana Zhurzhenko looks at what is behind these threats. How big is the risk of Ukraine falling apart? [more] 19.01.2005
· De Thomas Schreiber New Europe and AmericaThe American dream of Europe Eastern Bloc countries clung to the illusion they could become full allies with the US. [more] 18.05.2004
· De Neal Ascherson The first Europeans of TbilisiGeorgia after the revolution Georgia is looking westwards. [more] 22.04.2004
· De Vicken Cheterian To the west and backThe Caucasus after the vote in Georgia The problems for the new Georgian president are yet to come. [more] 27.01.2004
· De Mathilde Damoisel, Régis Genté Between hammer and anvilGeorgia, Abchasia and the Russian Federation Will Russia be able to strengthen its sphere of influence in the Caucasus? [more] 23.10.2003
· De Tomas Vrba Czech dreams, Czech doubtsAfter the referendum As Czechs have now voted to enter the European Union, Thomas Vrba looks at the developments over the last thirteen years to find out how a once distant dream has finally turned into reality. [more] 16.02.2004
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· Sv Per Wirtén Radikalismens fantasyvärldNär vänstervågen äntligen börjar rulla upp i strukturer och samtiden känns mognare än någonsin springer radikaler in i barnkammaren. Det är ett sorgligt reprisbeteende. [more] 16.06.2005
· Sv Mary Kaldor Slutet för nationalmytenGlobal politik viktigare nu än någonsin Talibanregimen föll. Och visst kan det vara en fungerande strategi att ösa in pengar i repressiva stater och döda redan kända terrorister - i några år. Men om USA fortsätter att agera som en nationalstat är framtiden sannerligen dyster. En genuin global politik är nu inte bara önskvärd i sig, utan helt avgörande för fred, skriver Mary Kaldor. [more] 09.01.2002
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