{"id":28267,"date":"2015-03-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-28T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aspeninstitutece.softmedia.cz\/news-article\/the-left-is-back-reports-new-aspen-review\/"},"modified":"2015-03-29T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-28T23:00:00","slug":"the-left-is-back-reports-new-aspen-review","status":"publish","type":"news-article","link":"https:\/\/www.aspeninstitutece.org\/cs\/news-article\/the-left-is-back-reports-new-aspen-review\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8222;The Left is Back!&#8220; reports new Aspen Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<em>Left-wing politics has made a huge comeback in Europe this year. The new issue of the Aspen Review (1\/2015) brings insightful analyses by acknowledged experts on the recent political developments on the Old Continent.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\n\tSeven years since the outset of the economic crisis, for the first time, a radical left political party won parliamentary elections in an EU member state. Ivan Krastev puts<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aspeninstitute.cz\/en\/article\/1-2015-the-return-of-the-radical-left\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Syriza&rsquo;s victory in Greece into historical perspective<\/a> and explains that, quite surprisingly, its political program &ldquo;stands for what was a European consensus just 40 years ago&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAnother Cover Story article,&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aspeninstitute.cz\/en\/article\/1-2015-in-search-of-meaning-21st-century-leftist-imaginarium\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">In search of meaning<\/a> by Frank Furedi, reveals a dramatic shift between ideas traditionally associated with leftist political thought and content of today&rsquo;s leftist politics. Furedi outlines a number of observations to support his claim that in fact, &ldquo;many of the ideas usually associated with the right are today closely linked with the outlook of left-wing thinkers&rdquo;. Martin \u0160ime\u010dka takes this argument further in The Incomprehensible Left, where he discusses the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aspeninstitute.cz\/en\/article\/1-2015-the-incomprehensible-left\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">paradox of sympathy of the current Czech and Slovak political leaderships for Russia <\/a>under Putin&rsquo;s&nbsp;right-wing&nbsp;regime.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe new issue also brings an exclusive interview with Shirin Ebadi, Iranian lawyer and the first Muslim Nobel Peace Prize laureate. She argues that the strong position of civil society predicts a democratic switch in Iran. Ebadi also lists <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aspeninstitute.cz\/en\/article\/1-2015-nuclear-nationalism-has-only-brought-misery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">four recommendations for the West when dealing with Iran<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIn the Economy section, P\u00e9ter Krek\u00f3, Bulcs\u00fa Hunyadi, and Kriszti\u00e1n Szabados give accounts of the strategy of Hungarian PM Viktor Orb\u00e1n. They argue that he is maneuvering in a narrow space between Russia and Germany and that very soon,<strong> <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aspeninstitute.cz\/en\/article\/1-2015-can-orban-break-out-of-the-diplomatic-isolation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Orb\u00e1n will have to take side<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAll Aspen Review issues, past and present, are <strong>available on-line<\/strong>. You can either read a particular text on-line or browse the whole issue in pdf format <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aspeninstitute.cz\/en\/magazine\/\" rel=\"noopener\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new issue of the Aspen Review reveals dynamic transformation of leftist politics in Europe. You can read the issue on-line or get your hard copy now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-tag":[],"class_list":["post-28267","news-article","type-news-article","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspeninstitutece.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-article\/28267","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=28267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aspeninstitutece.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-tag?post=28267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}