----------------------------------------------------------- EUROZINE NEWSLETTER 11.2011-----------------------------------------------------------
1. Article of the Month: Tymoshenko -- Wake-up call for the EU 2. New Eurozine partner: La Revue nouvelle 3. The Eurozine Review - now in English and German! 4. Keep up to date 5. New articles
----------------------------------------------------------- 1. ARTICLE OF THE MONTH: TYMOSHENKO -- WAKE-UP CALL FOR THE EU----------------------------------------------------------- On 10 October the Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko was sentenced to seven years imprisonment for abuse of office; investigations are also underway concerning her alleged involvement in the murder of a politician and businessman in 1996. The sentencing is seen as politically motivated and has been met with outrage in Ukraine and throughout Europe; the EU reacted by cancelling a meeting with the Ukrainian president Victor Yanukovych on EU-Ukrainian cooperation.
Yet the EU shouldn't be surprised by the Tymoshenko verdict, since it must share some of the blame, argues Mykola Riabchuk. The failure to provide Ukraine with long-term membership prospects has allowed the return of Russian-style authoritarianism, while "Ukraine fatigue" after the chaos of the Orange government has meant tolerance of new repressions passing as "reforms":
"What the West offered as benefit of doubt, Yanykovych and his associates took as a carte blanche. Within a year-and-a-half they have curtailed the civil liberties and political freedoms that were taken for granted under the Orange government," writes Riabchuk. The Yanukovych government is not going to give up its methods and mentality readily; only tough measures may force some pragmatism within its ranks:
"If Yanukovych's regime is not defeated in 2012 or 2015 the latest, it will consolidate into a full-fledged authoritarianism. After that, all elections in Ukraine will be a pure formality, as in Russia, Belarus and other post-Soviet sultanates. The EU has reacted too late to rescue Yulia Tymoshenko and her associates from humiliating imprisonment, but hopefully not too late to prevent the emergence of another dictatorship at its eastern borders."
Mykola Riabchuk Tymoshenko: Wake-up call for the EU This article is available in English, Ukrainian and Belarusian:
http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2011-10-28-riabchuk-en.htmlhttp://www.eurozine.com/articles/2011-10-28-riabchuk-uk.htmlhttp://www.eurozine.com/articles/2011-10-28-riabchuk-be.html
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Always controversial, "La Revue nouvelle" has been at the forefront of Belgian debates on colonialism, education, feminism, state reform, immigration, the Israel-Palestine conflict, ecology and more. Enjoying public support in the form of press subsidies, "La Revue nouvelle's independence link it strongly to a vision of justice, freedom and cultural respect.
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----------------------------------------------------------- 5. NEW ARTICLES----------------------------------------------------------- Benoît Derenne, Dave Sinardet, David Van Reybrouck, Francesca Vanthielen G1000 Manifesto If the politicians can't find a solution, let the citizens. On 11 November 2011, one thousand Belgian citizens will be brought together to discuss the future of their country. "Because democracy is so much more than citizens who vote and politicians who negotiate." Eurozine publishes the manifesto of a pathbreaking experiment in deliberative democracy. 02.11.2011
This article is available in Dutch, English, French and German: http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2011-11-02-G1000-nl.htmlhttp://www.eurozine.com/articles/2011-11-02-G1000-en.htmlhttp://www.eurozine.com/articles/2011-11-02-G1000-fr.htmlhttp://www.eurozine.com/articles/2011-11-02-G1000-de.html
Claus Leggewie Sea and sun for Europe A new project for the next generation Democratic upsurge in North Africa can combine with the energy revolution to revive the European project. Two-way developmental traffic across the Mediterranean would leave new generations in both North and South with fair chances of a good life. 02.11.2011
This article is now available in English and German: http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2011-11-02-leggewie-en.htmlhttp://www.eurozine.com/articles/2011-10-12-leggewie-de.html
Daniel Daianu Markets and society When high finance cripples the economy and corrodes democracy The current financial crisis is not confined to economies, writes former Romanian finance minister Daniel Daianu. The erosion of the middle class, the spread of extremism and the threat to democracy are some of the more obvious social effects demanding attention. 31.10.2011
This article is now available in English, Lithuanian and Romanian: http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2011-07-21-daianu-en.htmlhttp://www.eurozine.com/articles/2011-10-31-daianu-lt.htmlhttp://www.eurozine.com/articles/2011-07-21-daianu-ro.html
Mykola Riabchuk Tymoshenko: Wake-up call for the EU The EU shouldn't be surprised by the Tymoshenko verdict: its support of anything nominally reformist has been perceived as acceptance of a range of repressions. Tough measures are now needed to prevent another authoritarian state forming on the EU's borders. 28.10.2011
This article is available in Belarusian, English and Ukranian: http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2011-10-28-riabchuk-be.htmlhttp://www.eurozine.com/articles/2011-10-28-riabchuk-en.htmlhttp://www.eurozine.com/articles/2011-10-28-riabchuk-uk.html
László Földenyi What colour is the Danube? The colour of the Danube varies according to history and geography. Never able to truly form the countries through which it runs into a single political entity, it nevertheless connects peoples and regions reconcilable only in dreams or poetry. 27.10.2011
This article is available in English: http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2011-10-27-foldenyi-en.html
Jean-Paul Bouchet, Patrick Pierron To anticipate change, return to work An interview with Jean-Paul Bouchet and Patrick Pierron Employees no longer understand the changes taking place in companies or know where they stand in the chain of production. Compartmentalization and lack of involvement in decision-making are among the reasons for the rise in employee anxiety, argue two trade unionists. 27.10.2011
This article is available in French: http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2011-10-27-bouchet-fr.html
Eurozine Review Foreign, all too foreign "Varlik" sees the Gastarbeiter turn 50; "Cogito" (Turkey) misses coverage of civil disobedience in the Turkish press; "Arena" predicts the downfall of the euro; "Esprit" asks what's driving employees over the edge; "Mittelweg 36" finds nothing ordinary about ordinary men; "Intellectum" talks to genocide lawyer William Schabas; "La Revue nouvelle" says the working class still frightens Europe's conservatives; "NZ" examines the national form of proletarian content; and "Le Monde diplomatique" (Oslo) reads Gombrowicz to understand the depravities of today's far-Right. 27.10.2011
This article is available in English and German: http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2011-10-27-eurozinerev-en.htmlhttp://www.eurozine.com/articles/2011-10-27-eurozinerev-de.html
Yüksel Pazarkaya Traces that won't go away The Gastarbeiter fifty years on The first Turkish "Gastarbeiter" arrived in Germany fifty years ago. Since then, their reception in German society has swung between enthusiasm and hostility. Yüksel Pazarkaya summarizes the history of the migrant workers, drawing conclusions for today's debate on integration. 27.10.2011
This article is available in English and Turkish: http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2011-10-27-pazarkaya-en.htmlhttp://www.eurozine.com/articles/2011-10-27-pazarkaya-tr.html
Christof Schneider Perpetrators without qualities On the impact of social-psychological models in Holocaust research Social-psychological research tends to reproduce the ideal of inherently good, sane and normal human beings. The possibility that subjects have multiple identities and that hybrid states deserve the term "normal" challenges this assumption. 25.10.2011
This article is available in German: http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2011-10-25-schneider-de.html
Victor Tsilonis The virtual rebel: Mon semblable! Despite his or her ceaseless social networking, the virtual rebel's many hours of online agitation remain largely unproductive. Time for some real-time, says Victor Tsilonis, editor of Greek journal "Intellectum". 25.10.2011
This article is available in English: http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2011-10-25-tsilonis-en.html
Therese Kaufmann, Ivan Krastev, Claus Offe, Sonja Puntscher-Riekmann, Martin M. Simecka The EU: The real sick man of Europe? Democratic deficit, enlargement fatigue and ever more rescue funds: is there still a future for a common Europe? In a discussion in Eurozine's series "Europe talks to Europe", prominent intellectuals diagnosed causes for the current malaise of the EU. 20.10.2011
This article is now available in English and Spanish: http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2011-08-05-vienna-en.htmlhttp://www.eurozine.com/articles/2011-10-20-vienna-es.html
Jane Bennett, Klaus K. Loenhart Vibrant matter, zero landscape Interview with Jane Bennett Philosopher Jane Bennett explains what she understands by "vital materialism" and why rightwing religious rhetoric led her to entertain the notion of an "undesigned order of materiality" possessing "the dynamic, incalculable, awesome and awful qualities elsewhere ascribed to God". 19.10.2011
This article is available in English: http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2011-10-19-loenhart-en.html
Tobias Hübinette, Catrin Lundström White melancholia Mourning the loss of "Good old Sweden" Sweden's post-war image as frontrunner of egalitarianism and antiracism contains more than a trace of national and racial chauvinism, argue two whiteness studies scholars. As myths of the better Sweden fade, both Right and Left are consumed by "white melancholy". 18.10.2011
This article is available in English and Swedish: http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2011-10-18-hubinette-en.htmlhttp://www.eurozine.com/articles/2011-10-18-hubinette-sv.html
Ivan Krastev, Gleb Pavlovsky, Tatiana Zhurzhenko The politics of no alternatives or How power works in Russia An interview with Gleb Pavlovsky In interview with "Transit", former dissident turned "political technologist" Gleb Pavlovsky talks about the workings of political power in the former Soviet Union and in post-Soviet Russia. 18.10.2011
This article is now available in English, Estonian, Polish and Romanian: http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2011-06-09-pavlovsky-en.htmlhttp://www.eurozine.com/articles/2011-09-21-pavlovsky-et.htmlhttp://www.eurozine.com/articles/2011-10-18-pavlovsky-pl.htmlhttp://www.eurozine.com/articles/2011-09-21-pavlovsky-ro.html
Øyvind Strømmen Caught in the web There are clear signs that Internet-radicalization was behind the terrorism of Anders Behring Breivik. Though most research on this points to jihadism, it can teach us a lot about how Internet-radicalization of all kinds can be fought. 14.10.2011
This article is available in English and Norwegian: http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2011-10-14-strommen-en.htmlhttp://www.eurozine.com/articles/2011-10-14-strommen-no.html
Ovidiu Nahoi War in Europe? Not so impossible The dark warnings of the Polish finance minister about the prospect of war in Europe if the crisis deepens were met with scepticism. But there is no call for complacency about where current, nationalist tendencies might lead, writes the editor of "Adevarul Europa". 13.10.2011
This article is available in English and Romanian: http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2011-10-13-nahoi-en.htmlhttp://www.eurozine.com/articles/2011-10-13-nahoi-ro.html
Eurozine Review Anything but democracy "Blätter" suggests a way to make Europe future-fit; "Lettera Internazionale" likes the pace and plurality of the South; "Fronesis" prefers the critique to the critiqued; "Dilema veche" finds Europe in thrall to a nationalist minority; "Dziejaslou" consults augurs and magic realists; "Res Publica Nowa" asks what Poles want of their leaders; "Multitudes" enters gaseous modernity; and "Du" bursts the neuro-bubble. 12.10.2011
This article is available in English and German: http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2011-10-12-eurozinerev-en.htmlhttp://www.eurozine.com/articles/2011-10-12-eurozinerev-de.html
Leila Brännström, Anders Johansson, Sharon Rider, Malin Rönnblom What is the state of critique today? A conversation with Anders Johansson, Sharon Rider and Malin Rönnblom Is what is taken to be critique today merely confirmation of the moral consensus? In the neoliberal culture of the audit, has critique been deprived of its role as check on ideology? And does preference for impact-oriented research produce political compliance rather than independent critical thought? 12.10.2011
This article is available in English and Swedish: http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2011-10-12-johansson-en.htmlhttp://www.eurozine.com/articles/2011-10-12-johansson-sv.html
Ola Larsmo The words that kill The challenge is to find the words with which to counter the visions of purity harboured by the propagators of terror. Ola Larsmo on the recent spate of terrorist acts in Sweden and Norway, culminating in the massacre in Oslo and Utøya on 22 July. 07.10.2011
This article is available in English and Swedish: http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2011-10-07-larsmo-en.htmlhttp://www.eurozine.com/articles/2011-10-07-larsmo-sv.html
Ivan Krastev Democratic, can travel The Russian regime's abandonment of the ideology of public interest prevents it being measured against its own standards, while its policy of open borders diffuses protest from a dissatisfied middle class. Ivan Krastev on reasons for authoritarianism's tenacity. 06.10.2011
This article is now available in English and Romanian: http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2011-03-17-krastev-en.htmlhttp://www.eurozine.com/articles/2011-10-06-krastev-ro.html
Ghania Mouffok Algeria: A country in search of its movement A brief account of the Years of Fire In Algeria, the uprising is being kept down by political propaganda and police brutality. Ghania Mouffok describes the deep anger of a population that has been living under a state of emergency since 1992, asking whether the street can join with the liberal elite to depose the corrupt and complacent government. 05.10.2011
This article is now available in English, French, Romanian and Turkish: http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2011-02-23-mouffok-en.htmlhttp://www.eurozine.com/articles/2011-02-23-mouffok-fr.htmlhttp://www.eurozine.com/articles/2011-04-21-mouffok-ro.htmlhttp://www.eurozine.com/articles/2011-10-05-mouffok-tr.html
Mária Eckhardt Franz Liszt 1811-1886 Franz Liszt, born 200 years ago in Hungary, lived a "trifurcated life" divided between Weimar, Rome and Budapest. On the composer's bicentenary, Mariá Eckhardt recalls the career of the only nineteenth century Hungarian musician to be recognized as among the greatest in the world. 04.10.2011
This article is available in English: http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2011-10-04-eckhardt-en.html
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