Video: (Inter)National Reconstruction: Revising Poststructuralist Encounters with the War in Bosnia and Herzegovina
By Tomáš Dopita In this paper I assemble empirical material on the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina and ask the following question: How come the international intervention established in ‘Dayton’ is still not concluded, and what we can do to…
Video: The Politics of Intimacy – Exploring the Intersections of Policies and Emotions
By Vojtěch Jirásek The seminar by Dr. Anna Durnová took place at the Institute of International Relations in cooperation with the journal New Perspectives on Wednesday, May 25, 2016. The lecture, named The Politics of Intimacy: Exploring the Intersections of…
Resisting Fear – Václav Havel’s legacy and the need for existential revolution in the 21st century
By Jiří Přibáň ‘It would appear that the traditional parliamentary democracies can offer no fundamental opposition to the automatism of technological civilization and the industrial-consumer society, for they, too, are being dragged helplessly along by it. They are manipulated in…
Housing Construction in Socialism: Interview with Katarína Andrášiová
This interview is based on an article called “Bytová výstavba v socializme: Sídliská Bratislavského Ružinova v Reflexii Tvorcov” published in Žili sme v socializme I.: kapitoly z etnológie každodennosti (We Lived in Socialism: Chapter from the ethnology of everyday). The…
Maili Vilson: The foreign policy of the Baltic states and the Ukrainian crisis: A case of Europeanization?
Under which circumstances do countries give up bits of their national sovereignty? The best example we know so far comes from Europe: the European Union (EU) has gradually grown to play a significant part in the various policy fields of…
Daniel Šitera: On New Travels in Space-Time: Theoretical Rediscoveries after the Crisis in (Comparative) Capitalism(s)
By Daniel Šitera Using the ‘travelling theory’ paradigm, this article reviews two progressive books in the Comparative Capitalisms (CC) scholarship; New Directions in Comparative Capitalisms Research: Critical and Global Perspectives (eds.: Matthias Ebenau, Ian Bruff & Christian May) and The…
New Perspectives issue 2/2015 out now!
New Perspectives: Interdisciplinary Journal of Central & East European Politics and International Relations We are delighted to present this second issue of New Perspectives – our subscribers have access to the full contents of the journal, which are listed and…
02/2015 Editorial: Constellation to Constellation: Situation, Encounter & Doubt
By Benjamin Tallis, Editor-in-Chief Low was a reaction to having gone through that peculiar… that dull greenie-grey limelight of America and its repercussions; pullingmyself out of it and getting to Europe and saying, For God’s sake re-evaluate why you wanted…
Propaganda by Another Name
Prospect’s cherry-picked evidence says more about the authors’ ideological prejudice than the true state of the Central European countries they disparage. By Benjamin Cunningham The authors of the current cover piece in Prospect magazine, Anton Shekhovtsov and Peter Pomerantsev, are…
A New Translation of Nezval’s poems: The Absolute Gravedigger
We are delighted to share a new translation of one of the most interesting Czech surrealist authors, Vítězslav Nezval. To quote Stephan Delbos & Tereza Novická, authors of a new translation of The Absolute Gravedigger, “[This collection] is dazzling. Nezval’s musicality and imagery…
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