{"id":28270,"date":"2015-06-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-21T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aspeninstitutece.softmedia.cz\/news-article\/new-aspen-review-state-vs-economy\/"},"modified":"2024-10-25T18:10:40","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T16:10:40","slug":"new-aspen-review-state-vs-economy","status":"publish","type":"news-article","link":"https:\/\/www.aspeninstitutece.org\/cs\/news-article\/new-aspen-review-state-vs-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"New Aspen Review: State vs. Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<em>With Greece on the verge of bankruptcy and other European states struggling to reach economic growth, discussions arise once again about the right proportion of state intervention in the economy and about European governance. The new issue of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aspeninstitute.cz\/en\/magazine\/2-2015\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aspen Review<\/a> (2\/2015) brings analyses of the currently much debated topics&nbsp;<\/em><em>by renowned experts<\/em><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\n\tTwo articles discuss the need for creating a &ldquo;European state.&rdquo; First, Brendan Simms calls for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aspeninstitute.cz\/en\/article\/2-2015-do-we-need-a-european-state\/\" rel=\"noopener\">adoption of proper state instruments<\/a> in order to govern the Eurozone more effectively. Marek Cichocki then argues that the ideas on which European integration has been based are inadequate, and the financial and geopolitical crises showed the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aspeninstitute.cz\/en\/article\/2-2015-do-we-need-a-european-state-cichocki\/\" rel=\"noopener\">fundamental dilemmas of the EU<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIn another Cover Story piece, Ulrike Gu\u00e9rot analyzes the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aspeninstitute.cz\/en\/article\/2-2015-germany-on-its-own-or-in-the-middle-of-europe\/\" rel=\"noopener\">role of Germany within the EU<\/a>. She focuses on the way the current crisis brought changes to Germany&rsquo;s position among other member states and its struggles to assume economic, as well as political and strategic leadership.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe new issue also looks into the tensions caused by the current Russian government&rsquo;s actions in Ukraine. Professor W\u0142odzimierz Marciniak says in an interview that the activities are just an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aspeninstitute.cz\/en\/article\/2-2015-yanukovych-was-overthrown-by-the-kremlin\/\" rel=\"noopener\">excuse for Russia&rsquo;s confrontation with the West<\/a>. Andrew Wilson then brings an in-depth analysis of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aspeninstitute.cz\/en\/article\/2-2015-is-russian-politics-still-virtual\/\" rel=\"noopener\">political and ideological strategies of Russian leaders,<\/a> while Robert Cooper reflects on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aspeninstitute.cz\/en\/article\/2-2015-twenty-five-years-after\/\" rel=\"noopener\">history of misunderstandings and wrong assumptions between Russia and the West <\/a>since the end of the Cold War.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIn the Economy section, Martin Ehl discusses why <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aspeninstitute.cz\/en\/article\/2-2015-betting-on-industry-in-the-start-up-era\/\" rel=\"noopener\">start-ups are not well-integrated into the real economy in Central Europe<\/a> and why state-owned or semi-state-owned companies still play a dominant role in a region that was once referred to as the heart of economic reforms.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIn the Culture section, film critic Jakub Majmurek analyzes the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aspeninstitute.cz\/en\/article\/2-2015-ida-or-national-cinema-again\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">controversies behind the Polish Oscar-winning film Ida<\/a>. Pointing out at the tragic aspects of the common Polish-Jewish history, &ldquo;the film forces us to take responsibility for our own desires concerning what was, is and should be the community of all nations living in Poland.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAll Aspen Review issues, past and present, are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aspeninstitute.cz\/en\/magazine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>available on-line<\/strong><\/a>. You can either read a particular text on-line or browse the whole issue in pdf format.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read about the current challenges in economic governance in the new issue of the Aspen Review, available both on-line and in hard copy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13999,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-tag":[],"class_list":["post-28270","news-article","type-news-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspeninstitutece.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-article\/28270","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:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aspeninstitutece.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspeninstitutece.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aspeninstitutece.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-tag?post=28270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}