{"id":28248,"date":"2014-08-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-18T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aspeninstitutece.softmedia.cz\/news-article\/an-interview-with-emmanuel-todd-by-maciej-nowicki\/"},"modified":"2024-10-25T18:10:43","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T16:10:43","slug":"an-interview-with-emmanuel-todd-by-maciej-nowicki","status":"publish","type":"news-article","link":"https:\/\/www.aspeninstitutece.org\/cs\/news-article\/an-interview-with-emmanuel-todd-by-maciej-nowicki\/","title":{"rendered":"An interview with Emmanuel Todd by Maciej Nowicki"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Todd considers EU as an ailing power and Russia\u00b4s rebirth as a result of past quarter of century of maltreatment. The decreasing demographic growth is not playing in the cards of states seeking territorial expansion.<\/p>\n<p>Quotes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cThe Union is collapsing. And the games with Ukraine and bringing Yanukovych down remind me of the supernova phenomenon. The star shines with an extremely bright light, but a moment later falls apart. Today\u2019s EU is such a supernova.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0\u201cIn short, on the eastern border a power is reborn, which again becomes attractive to its periphery&#8230;&#8220;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cA society from which young people with degrees are fleeing does not have too much chance of success.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cRussians are nationalists. Nationalism is idiotic but as they have been maltreated for the last 20 years, it does not surprise me at all that they want to go on a rampage now.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Emmanuel Todd<\/strong> &#8211; French demographer, political scientist, sociologist, historian. An employee of the Paris Institute of Demographic Studies (INED &#8211; Institut national d\u2019\u00e9tudes d\u00e9mographiques). Author of much publicized books, including <em>The Final Fall<\/em> (orig. <em>La Chute final. Essais sur la decomposition de la sph\u00e8re Sovi\u00e9tique<\/em>, 1976 ), which announced the end of the USSR, and <em>After the Empire: The Breakdown of the American Order<\/em> (orig. <em>Apr\u00e8s l\u2019empire. Essai sur la Decomposition du syst\u00e8me am\u00e9ricain<\/em>, 2002).<\/p>\n<p>Read the interview with Emmanuel Todd by Maciek Nowicki <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspeninstitutece.org\/article\/2017\/we-live-in-a-world-of-ailing-powers\/\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read an interview with Emmanuel Todd, a renowned French demographer and historian, who provides a very critical insight to EU reaction to the events in Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-tag":[],"class_list":["post-28248","news-article","type-news-article","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspeninstitutece.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-article\/28248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspeninstitutece.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspeninstitutece.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news-article"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspeninstitutece.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aspeninstitutece.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-tag?post=28248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}