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<\/p>\nCentral and Eastern Europe are facing a global pandemic, an attack by state institutions on an independent judiciary and the media, or a post-Soviet dictatorship right in the European Union’s neighborhood. This volume offers a women’s perspective on these life-changing events and highlights what we should not overlook. Stay healthy and read the brand new Aspen.Review!<\/p>\n
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Many still tend to think that it is unusual for a woman to be the leader of a country. In Central Europe, we find it a surprise that female politicians can win elections. The perceived hurdle \u2014reflected in the omnipresent trials of day-to-day life\u2014 seems to be insurmountable until it is achieved. Read more about women power in the article\u00a0Not Yet a Revolution<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0Magda Jakubowska<\/strong>.<\/p>\n When the women\u2019s strike broke in Poland in November 2020, it was difficult to ignore the parallel between the protests against the illiberal government and the prominent role played by women in the Belarusian revolution\u2014Nelly Bekus<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n The way in which the women’s protests in Poland unfolded display a great deal of similarity with the Belarusian events. In both cases, the marches and demonstrations had women at the forefront and no obvious political leadership. Read about the\u00a0Women’s Protest in Belarus and Poland<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0Nelly Bekus<\/strong>.<\/p>\n „President \u010caputov\u00e1 has become a lonely liberal island in the middle of a conservative revolution. It soon turned out that this regime change was hardly any change at all,“ argues\u00a0the\u00a0Slovak fiction writer\u00a0Michal Hvoreck\u00fd<\/strong>.\u00a0Her greatest success is the way she communicates with people, in a way never seen in Slovakia before. Read more in the interview\u00a0The Change Proved To Be an Illusion<\/a>\u00a0with Michal Hvoreck\u00fd.<\/p>\n The anti-abortion law constituted the Great Compromise, in which political elites secured the church\u2019s support for political and economic reforms, including Poland joining the EU\u2014Ma\u0142gorzata Fidelis<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n It is not unusual for women to make revolutions. In these past upheavals, however, women often became marginalized and erased from the collective memory while the revolutions were turned against them. The\u00a0Polish Revolution of October 2020<\/a>\u00a0is different, writes\u00a0Ma\u0142gorzata Fidelis<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Apart from the the cover stories, there are also other topics in this Aspen.Review!\u00a0Having prided themselves on being the coronavirus champs in the spring, the Visegrad countries have ended up amongst the losers in the fall. Take a look at\u00a0What Went Wrong During\u00a0The Pandemic in V4<\/a>\u00a0written by\u00a0Lubo\u0161 Palata<\/strong>.<\/p>\n And did you know, in many regards, the experience of East Europeans with their Western brethren has been very traumatic? It has been overloaded with false expectations, bitter resentments and poorly hidden psychological complexes writes\u00a0Mykola Riabczuk<\/strong>\u00a0in his article. „Eastern Europeans have had many good reasons to feel betrayed by the West, belittled and alienated. But, on the other hand, this political stance and ideological niche had been already occupied by the Soviets,“ he argues. Read his thoughts in the article\u00a0Shifting the Wall Further East. Kundera\u2019s Tragedy of \u2018Central Europe\u2019 Three Decades Later<\/a>.<\/p>\n Nationalism and racism are part of the local legacy like multiculturalism and tolerance and a \u201csuper-bureaucratic statism and formalistic legalism took to absurd extremes\u201d had been the region\u2019s particular features long before the advance of Soviet Communism\u2014Mykola Riabczuk<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Americans should focus more on the EU, which has become a regulatory superpower, says\u00a0Ian Bremmer<\/strong>.\u00a0Find out more about the US green plans in an interview about\u00a0The Biden Administration, which Will Be the Greenest in US History<\/a>.<\/p>\n Biden\u2019s economic orientation is more social democratic, more closely in line with the center in Germany or France, and these are the most important governments driving EU policy\u2014Ian Bremmer<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n There is a lot\u00a0more in this issue! Read about\u00a0What is at Stake in the Eastern Mediterranean<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0Dimitar Bechev<\/strong>\u00a0or the interview with the Polish MEP\u00a0Rados\u0142aw Sikorski<\/strong>\u00a0who is not sure if\u00a0American Democracy Could Have Survived the Second Term of Donald Trump<\/a>.\u00a0And did you ever make up your mind as to whether\u00a0Belarus Belongs to Central Europe?<\/a>\u00a0Or if\u00a0the fantasy hero\u00a0Witcher is Slavic<\/a>?\u00a0If not, you can find out in Aspen Review!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.aspeninstitutece.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/aspen-media\/2021\/03\/bekus-1024x640.png\")
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