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The Challenge of Technocracy
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Panels and Discussions
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Ivan VejvodaStefan AuerHans Kundnani , Nicole Scicluna
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Series: Panels and Discussions
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Series: Panels and Discussions
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The Contamination of History. World War II and How Everything Started to Make Sense
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Holly CaseIvan Vejvoda
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Series: Lecture
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Series: Lecture
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The EU Periphery and Revisionist Powers
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Seminars and Colloquia
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Dimitar BechevIvan Vejvoda
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
Starting with the annexation of Crimea in the spring of 2014, scholars and analysts have been debating the standoff between the West and competitors such as Russia, Erdogan’s Turkey, and lately China on Europe’s periphery. “The return of geopolitics” has become a standard phrase to describe the new moment in the international politics of Eastern and Southeast Europe. A contrast is drawn with the 2000s, the highmark of the European Union’s “transformative power” and NATO’s eastward expansion. But the top-down view highlighting the preferences and actions of big players, including core EU member states like Germany and France, Russia, Turkey etc. overlooks the critical role played by peripheral countries and their elites. Rather than being the object of great powers’ decisions, they manipulate rivalries in pursuit of political advantage. Though the domestic arena provides entry points for external actors’ influence it also empowers incumbent elites in the target countries. The talk drew on examples from Southeast Europe (the Western Balkans, Bulgaria, Romania, Greece) but drew parallels to the post-Soviet space.
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
Starting with the annexation of Crimea in the spring of 2014, scholars and analysts have been debating the standoff between the West and competitors such as Russia, Erdogan’s Turkey, and lately China on Europe’s periphery. “The return of geopolitics” has become a standard phrase to describe the new moment in the international politics of Eastern and Southeast Europe. A contrast is drawn with the 2000s, the highmark of the European Union’s “transformative power” and NATO’s eastward expansion. But the top-down view highlighting the preferences and actions of big players, including core EU member states like Germany and France, Russia, Turkey etc. overlooks the critical role played by peripheral countries and their elites. Rather than being the object of great powers’ decisions, they manipulate rivalries in pursuit of political advantage. Though the domestic arena provides entry points for external actors’ influence it also empowers incumbent elites in the target countries. The talk drew on examples from Southeast Europe (the Western Balkans, Bulgaria, Romania, Greece) but drew parallels to the post-Soviet space.
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The EU, the Ukraine War and the Meaning of Resilience
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Ivan VejvodaNathalie Tocci
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Series: Lecture
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Series: Lecture
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The Future Eastern Part of Europe: Ukraine, Russia
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Panels and Discussions
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Ivan VejvodaOksana ForostynaVeronica AnghelBalázs Jarábik
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Series: Panels and Discussions
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Series: Panels and Discussions
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The German Elections and Europe's Future
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Panels and Discussions
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Ivan VejvodaOlivia LazardValbona ZeneliZoran NechevRoderick Parkes
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Series: Panels and Discussions
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Series: Panels and Discussions
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The Limits of Migration Control
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Dariusz StolaIvan VejvodaRanabir Samaddar
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Series: Lecture
Thanks to a historically unprecedented system of police control, transnational mobility from European communist states is probably the best documented social phenomenon of its kind and a unique experiment in the limits of the state control of mobility. This lecture presented some of the conclusions of Stola’s research project on migrations from communist Poland. These migrations underwent a marked evolution, from the movement of millions of people in the 1940s; to almost nil under the non-exit policy of the early 1950s; to the reemergence and gradual expansion of transnational mobility, especially within the Soviet bloc, between 1956 and 1980; to mass population flows in the late 1980s. Each trip outside the bloc, and indeed each trip abroad for most of the duration of communist rule, required applying for a permit from the Security Service. This procedure resulted in an archival collection of passport files that fills some 60 kilometers of shelf space. Despite the constraints, more than two million people eventually left Poland for good, and temporary movements occurred on a mass scale, pioneering forms of mobility that continued well after 1989. This lecture shed light on the key factors and currents of migration in communist Poland, as well as the evolution of the migration regime, from early imitation of the Soviet model to its eventual implosion.
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Series: Lecture
Thanks to a historically unprecedented system of police control, transnational mobility from European communist states is probably the best documented social phenomenon of its kind and a unique experiment in the limits of the state control of mobility. This lecture presented some of the conclusions of Stola’s research project on migrations from communist Poland. These migrations underwent a marked evolution, from the movement of millions of people in the 1940s; to almost nil under the non-exit policy of the early 1950s; to the reemergence and gradual expansion of transnational mobility, especially within the Soviet bloc, between 1956 and 1980; to mass population flows in the late 1980s. Each trip outside the bloc, and indeed each trip abroad for most of the duration of communist rule, required applying for a permit from the Security Service. This procedure resulted in an archival collection of passport files that fills some 60 kilometers of shelf space. Despite the constraints, more than two million people eventually left Poland for good, and temporary movements occurred on a mass scale, pioneering forms of mobility that continued well after 1989. This lecture shed light on the key factors and currents of migration in communist Poland, as well as the evolution of the migration regime, from early imitation of the Soviet model to its eventual implosion.
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The Politics of Creating a Resilient, Independent and Green Europe
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Panels and Discussions
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Heather GrabbeIvan Vejvoda
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Series: Panels and Discussions
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Series: Panels and Discussions
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The Ratline - From Vienna and Back, with Love, Lies and Justice
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Lecture
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Ivan VejvodaPhilippe Sands
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Series: Lecture
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Series: Lecture
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The Sahel and Africa’s Future in a World of Geopolitical Confrontation
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Panels and Discussions
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Ivan VejvodaEmanuela Claudia Del Re
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Series: Panels and Discussions
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Series: Panels and Discussions
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