{"id":28516,"date":"2020-03-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-30T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aspeninstitutece.softmedia.cz\/news-article\/heart-of-europe-on-the-periphery-new-aspen-review-is-here\/"},"modified":"2024-10-25T18:11:15","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T16:11:15","slug":"heart-of-europe-on-the-periphery-new-aspen-review-is-here","status":"publish","type":"news-article","link":"https:\/\/www.aspeninstitutece.org\/cs\/news-article\/heart-of-europe-on-the-periphery-new-aspen-review-is-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Heart of Europe on the Periphery \u2013 new Aspen.Review is here!"},"content":{"rendered":"

We\u00a0released this year’s\u00a0first issue of Aspen.Review!<\/strong> Although we might hope you are not on the periphery, we hope you aren’t in the epicenter of the pandemics either. But let’s slow down and think about the\u00a0Heart of Europe on the Periphery<\/strong>. Actually\u2014is it\u00a0wrong to be on\u00a0the periphery at all? Let’s visit it in this issue with us.<\/p>\n

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Heart of Europe on the Periphery<\/h1>\n

Illiberal backsliding is getting stronger in Visegrad countries recently. Central Europe suffers from a complex of inferiority, they say. Is it a legitimate feeling? Discover the heart of Europe and its pounding chambers on the periphery.\u00a0<\/strong>Read the brand new Aspen Review.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The collapse of communism opened a new way for the post-1989 political elites and the media to de-historicize and distort such fundamental concepts of democracy as liberalism, feminism, socialism and human rights\u2014Colin Crouch<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In contrast with clustering in traditional manufacturing industries, that in advanced manufacturing and services tends to prefer capital cities and others with attractive and convenient environments. The cumulative effect of this is to privilege a relatively small number of cities and regions in a restricted number of parts of Europe. Read about\u00a0Peripherality in Today\u2019s Europe<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0Colin Crouch<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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If you are wondering about how\u00a0the mass migration and the demise of the myth of the west is fueling populism in CEE, read\u00a0the article by\u00a0Kacper Szulecki<\/strong>.\u00a0Freedom of movement\u2014particularly to travel and work in the \u201cWest\u201d\u2014was something Central Europeans dreamed of behind the Iron Curtain, and used to be given as the number one rationale for joining the EU, he thinks. More in the article\u00a0Illiberal Remittances<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s be honest: Social media platforms are very slow when it comes to combating disinformation, but they are taking measures. RT and Sputnik are not as prominent as they once were\u2014David Aladente<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There\u2019s one thing in common in all the Kremlin foreign campaigns\u2014except Ukraine, which is very singular in and of itself. They do not create problems for others, they only use the problems already present in the countries and societies they are planning to target. And make them bigger\u2014explains\u00a0David Alandete<\/strong> in\u00a0the interview The Kremlin Connection<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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And there is much more in Heart of Europe on the Periphery<\/strong>\u00a0cover stories:\u00a0Our\u00a0AYLP<\/a>\u00a0alumnus Pavol Kosn\u00e1\u010d\u00a0<\/strong>wrote about the Rise of Paramilitaries in CEE<\/a>,\u00a0Csaba G. Kiss<\/strong> shared his thoughts on the\u00a0Center of Europe Has an Inferiority Complex<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0V\u00edt Dost\u00e1l\u00a0<\/strong>gives\u00a0a\u00a0Farewell to the Periphery<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We\u2014Hungarians, Czechs, Slovaks, Poles\u2014have an inferiority complex. This is a shared feature. Being aware of our shared inferiority complex can liberate us from it\u2014Csaba G. Kiss<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The world economy suffers from short-sighted policies enacted by politicians who only see the next elections, who seek to buy their popularity and pay off the electorate, and are reluctant to enact difficult reforms, says former Slovak politician and economist Ivan Miklo\u0161 <\/strong>in the\u00a0interview<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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But we focussed also on other topics such as\u00a0Moscow Protests and their Consequences<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>by\u00a0Ivan Preobrazhensky<\/strong>,\u00a0<\/strong>The City and the Myth: Making Sense of the Lviv \u2018Nationalist\u2019 Image<\/a>\u00a0by Mykola Riabczuk\u00a0<\/strong>or if the\u00a0Wealth Taxes are the Panacea for the Ills of Capitalism<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0Hanna Szymborska<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Wealthy kids often take special courses or hire tutors to prepare\u2014something not possible for a poor kid. This is the equivalent of an Olympic 100 meter race that allows some runners to openly use steroids\u2014Benjamin Cunningham<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Still don’t have enough? Read the whole articles at the\u00a0Aspen.Review<\/a>\u00a0website, download the eBook version or get a hard copy at one of our\u00a0events in the future.<\/p>\n

Read Aspen.Review now!<\/a><\/p>\n

And the\u00a0next issue is gonna be hot\u2014we will discuss\u00a0the\u00a0climate crisis and Central Europe<\/strong>. Please, if you like our work, spread the word!<\/strong> Let\u2019s share\u00a0some of the texts with at least one friend or on social networks.\u00a0Thank you a lot!<\/p>\n

Jenda<\/strong> \u017d\u00e1\u010dek
\n<\/strong>Publishing Editor of\u00a0Aspen.Review<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We have released 2020’s first issue of Aspen.Review! Read about the peripherality in today\u2019s Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":20028,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-tag":[],"class_list":["post-28516","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\/28516","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\/20028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aspeninstitutece.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aspeninstitutece.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-tag?post=28516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}