Language and War in Contemporary Ukraine
by Francis Scarr The author is a Research Assistant Intern at the Institute of International Relations in Prague. Since Ukraine’s declaration of independence in 1991, the country has grappled, at times clumsily, with the task of establishing consensus over the…
Article Ahead of Print – Helsinki Syndrome: The Parachronistic Renaissance of Finlandization in International Politics
Read the full article – The Helsinki Syndrome by Tapio Juntunen – in Online First Helsinki Syndrome, Definition: Psychology: Colloquial misnomer for Stockholm Syndrome International Relations (practice): Unfavourable domestic political culture stemming from an ultra-realist and circumspect reading of one’s foreign policy latitude in…
The shifting essence of Treptower Memorial, Berlin
by Vojtěch Jirásek World War II left many scars on the landscape of Berlin and in its aftermath. Soviets enjoyed building big memorials that were hard not to notice. I’ve studied one of them, the Soviet War Memorial in Treptower…
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….
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…
Dissent and protest art in the 21st century
Last week saw an interesting exchange of opinions on fundamental values of being against or outside the “system”. The event’s protagonists are two artists residing in Prague. They are Oleg Vorotnikov from the art group Voina and Roman Týc from…
Contemporary music subcultures in St. Petersburg: Snapshots of Techno and Witch House scenes
By Matyáš Viktora The author spent one semester as an exchange student of International Relations in Saint-Petersburg, Russia. He aims to analyse local underground or semi-underground subcultures through portraits and snapshots from the parties and other events. This article should…
How does Russia see the World? The debate on IMEMO Forecasts
The upcoming issue of New Perspectives will feature a forum on the second installment of the IMEMO Forecast – an analytical report on Russian foreign and security policy, geopolitics and political economy. It is already a second forum on the…
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