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Tr@nsit Online

Tr@nsit was the online sister journal of Transit, published until 2017. Here, authors, fellows and friends of the IWM offered further articles, reflections and comments related to ongoing research and debates at the Institute.

Title	Author
Right Turn	Jacek Kochanowicz	Read more	Authors: Jacek Kochanowicz Published: , Right Turn Polish Politics at the Beginning of the Twenty-first Century Polish prime minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski, speaking at a rally in November 2006 at the Gdansk Shipyard, twenty-five years ago the cradle of the Solidarity movement, told his supporters: “We stay were we Read more

Die Zukunft der sozialen Sicherheit	Kurt Biedenkopf	Read more	Authors: Kurt Biedenkopf Published: , Die Zukunft der sozialen Sicherheit In der ganzen westlichen Welt, zumindest in Amerika und in Europa, gibt es einen Grundkonsens. Read more

Romania and the Balkans	Sorin Atohi	Read more	Authors: Sorin Atohi Published: , Romania and the Balkans From geocultural bovarism to ethnic ontology Imagining the Balkans, and oneself in relation to the Balkans, has been a Romanian intellectual pastime for roughly two centuries. Read more

Europa – Wertegemeinschaft oder Rechtsordnung?	Robert Spaemann	Read more	Authors: Robert Spaemann Published: , Europa – Wertegemeinschaft oder Rechtsordnung? Der Rede von Werten, der Berufung auf Werte haftet eine tiefe Zweideutigkeit an. Sie ist entweder trivial oder gefährlich. Oder besser: sie ist trivial und gefährlich zugleich – und gefährlich ist sie wegen ihrer Zweideutigkeit. Read more

Obama and the Crisis: What Does the Future Hold?	Katherine S. Newman	Read more	Authors: Katherine S. Newman Published: , Obama and the Crisis: What Does the Future Hold? This is not an unprecedented turn of events. When we look backwards at previous financial crises in the U.S., especially those that were accompanied by extreme inequality, we see a familiar pattern. Read more

Der neue Kreisauer Kreis		Read more	Authors: Published: , Der neue Kreisauer Kreis Da sitzt der alte Feldmarschall Moltke nun auf einer Wolke im Himmel – so vermuten wir – und schüttelt sachte den Kopf. Was ist aus seinem Gut in Schlesien geworden! Read more

Kharkiv Talks in a Viennese Kitchen – On Revolution, War and Literature in Ukraine	Tatiana Zhurzhenko (Translated by Irena Maryniak), Zaven Bablovan	Read more	Authors: Tatiana Zhurzhenko (Translated by Irena Maryniak), Zaven Bablovan Published: , Kharkiv Talks in a Viennese Kitchen – On Revolution, War and Literature in Ukraine Read more

On Time	Krzysztof Pomian	Read more	Authors: Krzysztof Pomian Published: , On Time Students must not die before their teachers. Krzysztof Michalski was my student at Warsaw University for two years, between 1966 and 1968, and he wanted me to supervise his master’s thesis. Read more

Self-Reflection Through the Visual: Notes on Some Maidan Documentaries	Yustyna Kravchuk	Read more	Authors: Yustyna Kravchuk Published: , Self-Reflection Through the Visual: Notes on Some Maidan Documentaries Read more

Language and Nation Building. Dilemmas of Language Politics in Contemporary Ukraine	Tatiana Zhurzhenko	Read more	Authors: Tatiana Zhurzhenko Published: , Language and Nation Building. Dilemmas of Language Politics in Contemporary Ukraine One would have expected this situation to change after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the creation of the Ukrainian state in 1991. Read more