{"id":28348,"date":"2016-04-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-02T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aspeninstitutece.softmedia.cz\/news-article\/institutions-in-crisis-read-the-new-aspen-review\/"},"modified":"2024-10-25T18:10:41","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T16:10:41","slug":"institutions-in-crisis-read-the-new-aspen-review","status":"publish","type":"news-article","link":"https:\/\/www.aspeninstitutece.org\/cs\/news-article\/institutions-in-crisis-read-the-new-aspen-review\/","title":{"rendered":"INSTITUTIONS IN CRISIS: Read the new Aspen Review!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<em>Democracies in Europe and elsewhere in the Western world are facing difficult times. With ongoing decline of public trust in institutions, decay of traditional political parties, and citizens&#039; disengagement from politics, the liberal-democratic model of governance seems to be at stake. What are the causes of these trends? Are we witnessing a turn towards illiberalism? How can we restore faith in democratic government? These are some of the questions addressed by the latest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aspeninstitute.cz\/en\/review\/1-2016\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aspen Review Central Europe (1\/2016)<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\n\t<strong>Institutions in Crisis <\/strong>unveils different layers of the problem. Frank Furedi writes about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aspeninstitute.cz\/en\/article\/1-2016-institutions-and-ideology\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">exhaustion of ideology and institutional decay<\/a>, which&nbsp;threaten the post-war liberal-democratic establishment. Jan-Werner M\u00fcller analyzes the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aspeninstitute.cz\/en\/article\/1-2016-populism-and-technocracy-in-twenty-first-century-europe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">similarities between populism and technocracy<\/a>&nbsp;and their destructive effect on European politics. Ivan Krastev then discusses the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aspeninstitute.cz\/en\/article\/1-2016-has-the-separation-of-powers-gotten-out-of-fashion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rise of populist and radical parties in Central Europe<\/a>, while Marek Cichocki claims that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aspeninstitute.cz\/en\/article\/1-2016-how-the-changes-in-poland-are-changing-europe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">current situation in Poland<\/a> is a European norm, rather than an exception.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tFurthermore, we bring you an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aspeninstitute.cz\/en\/article\/1-2016-the-cacophony-of-europe-the-cacophony-of-the-world\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interview with Professor Dominique Mo\u00efsi<\/a> about some of the most pressing European issues, such as the refugee crisis, lack of leadership in the EU, or Brexit.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIn the Politics section you can read an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aspeninstitute.cz\/en\/article\/1-2016-looking-back-at-seven-years-of-barack-obama-s-foreign-policy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">assessment of Barack Obama&#039;s foreign policy<\/a>&nbsp;by Roman Joch, Oana Popescu&#039;s take on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aspeninstitute.cz\/en\/article\/1-2016-vacation-is-over\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Romanian strategic thinking<\/a>, or an article about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aspeninstitute.cz\/en\/article\/1-2016-between-skopje-and-sofia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bulgarian-Macedonian relations<\/a> by Jan&nbsp;Mu\u015b.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe Economy chapter offers you the analysis of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aspeninstitute.cz\/en\/article\/1-2016-enter-the-dragon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">China&#039;s economic interests in Central and Eastern Europe<\/a>&nbsp;by&nbsp;Micha\u0142 Lubina or&nbsp;a piece by Dan Jerker B Svantesson, where you can learn about the challenging issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aspeninstitute.cz\/en\/article\/1-2016-international-law-and-order-in-cyberspace-cloud-computing-and-the-need-to-revisit-the-foundations-of-jurisdiction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">determining jurisdiction in the Internet age<\/a>. Kerem \u00d6ktem writes about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aspeninstitute.cz\/en\/article\/1-2016-when-the-party-is-over\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">political and economic decline of Turkey<\/a>, while Witold Gadomski shares his thoughts about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aspeninstitute.cz\/en\/article\/1-2016-the-ups-and-downs-of-polish-economy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">economic policy of the new Polish government<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest issue of the quarterly covers the many current challenges faced by democratic institutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14774,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-tag":[],"class_list":["post-28348","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\/28348","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\/14774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspeninstitutece.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aspeninstitutece.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-tag?post=28348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}