Lies & Provocations or Myths & Pretexts?: NATO Enlargement and the Origins of the Ukraine Crisis
by Anna Roininen In his address on 18 March 2014, in which President Putin justified the annexation of Crimea, he underlined the humiliation Russia had suffered due to a series of hostile actions and broken promises by the West, including…
Terrorists and pro-Russian militants: Depictions of the Enemy in the Ukrainian conflict
by David Rypel The text analyses a way in which Ukrainian official discourse –represented here by a spokesperson on matters related to the so-called Anti-Terrorist Operation – constructs the Enemy whom the military confronts in the east of the country….
Italy: An Oracle on Populism for CEE
by Donatella Bonansinga The current populist turn in Central and Eastern Europe might seem surprising or puzzling to some. The Visegrad Group (V4), born to further the European integration of Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia, is now acting as an…
Ty Solomon: Prospects of critical scholarship in IR, differences between U.S. and EU academia, how to succeed as a young scholar (Part 2)
Read also the first part of the interview with Ty Solomon, which discusses emotions in politics, the affective turn in International Relations, Trump and Brexit. Ty Solomon, new member of New Perspectives’ Editorial Board, speaks to NP’s deputy editor-in-chief Jakub…
Ty Solomon: Emotions in politics, the affective turn in IR, and the success of Brexit & Trump (part 1)
Ty Solomon, new member of New Perspectives’ Editorial Board, speaks to NP’s deputy editor-in-chief Jakub Eberle. The interview was conducted on the occasion of Ty’s lecture on ‘Affect and the Arab Spring’ at the Institute of International Relations, Prague. Jakub…
Mark Galeotti: The perils of late Putinism. Not an evil genius, but a tsar
Interview by the Czech Radio. Today, we witness a fundamental change of the Putin’s regime: Russia is heading towards late putinism, where ambitious figures disappear and the more dependent and faithful emerge. Their wish to obey the ruler’s desires could…
New Perspectives issue 1/2016 out now!
New Perspectives: Interdisciplinary Journal of Central & East European Politics and International Relations We are delighted to present issue 01/2016 of New Perspectives – our subscribers have access to the full contents of the journal, which are listed and linked…
Outlook from Idomeni on the Greek-Macedonian border
by Balthazar Mandahl Forsberg In this short piece I share some of my experiences and observations from my stay in Idomeni as a volunteer. I’ll try to give a brief overview over work of independent volunteer groups in the camp…
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…
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