Jody Jensen, Igor Stipic and Dimitar Nikolovski: Studies in Contentious Politics
Jody Jensen, Igor Stipic and Dimitar Nikolovski: Studies in Contentious Politics
Reframing Europe’s Future
Reframing Europe’s Future : Challenges and failures of the European construction / ed. by Jody Jensen and Ferenc Miszlivetz Many fundamental questions have emerged since the global financial crisis began. These include how we want to live on this planet and how we want to live with each other. Questions have been raised about our…
Stuart Holland: Europe in Question
Stuart Holland: Europe in Question – and what to do about it In the 1960s, Stuart Holland was an adviser on Europe to Harold Wilson, but resigned when Wilson would not follow trough openings on Europe and domestic economic policy. He then drafted proposals on the latter, which were adopted by the Labour Party in…
21st Anniversary Conference of The Club Of Budapest
21st Anniversary Conference of The Club Of Budapest
Ferenc Miszlivetz is talking about the new democracy and the Great Transformation that is happening right now in the world at the 21st Anniversary Conference of The Club Of Budapest (2014. december 5-6).
The Club Of Budapest
Iván Vitányi: Chance and Danger
Jody Jensen: Globalizáció és Új Kormányzás. Budapest-Érd: MTA Társadalomtudományi Kutatóközpont Politikatudományi Intézet-Mundus Novus Könyvek, 2014. 245 p.
Global Challenges – European and Local Answers
Global Challenges – European and Local Answers : The Rise of Glocalty in Europe / ed. by Ferenc Miszlivetz and Jody Jensen The interdependent and manifold global crises have seriously disrupted the European project. Valid solutions and alternatives cannot be found by remaining within structurally separated disciplines. The multidimensional and complex approach of political scientists,…
The End of Certainty – a public lecture
Prof. Ferenc Miszlivetz, visiting professor, is to give a public lecture at Columbia University on Wednesday, January 25.
Democracy and Civil Society: Outlines of a New Paradigm
Evaluating 1989 has divided analysts from the outset. The majority of political scientists and sociologists saw the events as the victory of liberal democracy in Central and Eastern Europe. Thus, Jürgen Habermas or Timothy Garton Ash did not see the ‘velvety revolutions’ as offering anything new, they did not believe that any original or innovative…
Why Should We Reinvent Central Europe?
The European Union has been going through a crisis. It has lost its dynamism and can only strengthen its competitiveness and increase economic and social cohesion if the member states, regions, local governments and, not least, activist groups of local societies strive to achieve these aims. Not all public figures seem to have understood this in our…
The Future of Europe: Democracy, Civil Society and Enlargement
Laurence Whitehead in a recently published article, links the complex and blurred issue of Eastern enlargement of the EU to what he calls „democracy promotion”.* As is usually in the case of European enlargement, reality moves ahead of theory and the social sciences: one can agree with Whitehead that the Helsinki Summit of Dec. 1999, which concluded to start…