Yearly Archives: 2010
Ivan Krastev: The Balkans’ New Normal
The Balkans is the European Union’s untold success story. The EU’s commitment to bringing the region within its borders remains firm. In September, Catherine Ashton, the EU’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs, succeeded in breaking the deadlock in Serbia-Kosovo relations by bringing both sides back to the negotiating table. The EU’s soft power remains as …
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Russia’s Reckoning with Katyń
Why does it matter that the Russian parliament has just declared the Katyń mass murder of 1940 to be a Stalinist crime? Seventy years on, no one doubts the responsibility of Stalin, Beria, and the Soviet NKVD for the murder of about 21,892 Polish citizens in the Katyń Forest and four other sites. Yet, according …
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Friedrich Balke
Das Kunstwerk als “machtgeladenes Ding”
Freuds Kommentar zu Wilhelm Jensens Novelle “Gradiva” Vortrag Reihe: “Kunst – Gesellschaft – Politik” Im Zentrum des Vortrags steht die Frage der künstlerischen Wirkung und damit verbunden die nach der Rolle der Kunst in einer Gesellschaft, die ihr, wie allen anderen sozialen Praktiken, einen bestimmten Ort und eine institutionelle Bedeutung zuweist. Dabei greift die Argumentation …
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Claus Offe
On Sharing Responsibility
Jan Patočka Memorial Lecture “Responsibility” is a triadic concept: Someone is responsible to someone (or even “all of us”) for (refraining from) doing something. The concept plays a role in political ethics (Weber’s famous “ethics of responsibility”) as well as in theories of distributive justice (the rule that you should be rewarded in proportion to …
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Transit 40: Editorial
Copyright © 2010 by Transit-Europäische Revue. All rights reserved. This work may be used, with this header included, for noncommercial purposes. No copies of this work may be distributed electronically, in whole or in part, without written permission from Transit. Transit – Europäische Revue, Nr. 40/2010 Editorial Der Zusammenbruch des Sowjetimperiums ließ das herrschende Narrativ …
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Sebastian Oberthür
EU Leadership on Climate Change.
Responding to Internal and External Challenges Lecture Series “Climate Politics and International Solidarity after Copenhagen” EU leadership in the international fight against climate change was shaken at the Copenhagen Summit in 2009 which failed to establish a post-2012 agreement. As the geopolitics of climate change evolve, the Europe struggles to reinvigorate its leadership. Which steps …
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János Mátyás Kovács
External Research Fellow, Institute of Economics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest
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Lebendige Erinnerung an die Diktatur
Was Europas Süden und Osten gemeinsam haben
Der französische Politikwissenschaftler Maurice Duverger wurde 1951 europaweit durch das „Duverger’sche Gesetz“ bekannt, demzufolge ein System einfacher Mehrheit in Einerwahlkreisen die Herausbildung eines Zweiparteiensystems begünstigt. Zehn Jahre später jedoch veröffentlichte der 1917 geborene Sozialdemokrat ein mit „De la dictature“ betiteltes Buch, in dem er nicht trockene sozialwissenschaftliche Wahlstatistik trieb, sondern einen emotionalen, gar dramatischen Ton …
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