Unlike the extremist parties of the 1930s, the new populist movements do not aim to abolish democracy: quite the opposite, writes Ivan Krastev. What we are witnessing is a conflict between elites suspicious of democracy and increasingly illiberal publics. [Slovak version added] [ more ]
"Esprit" watches market prophecies self-fulfil; "Blätter" calls off the bets in the financial casino; "Mute" refutes the received wisdom about inflation; "Dilema veche" notes how the financial crisis is reimposing the East-West divide; "New Humanist" turns to Durkheim to make sense of the depression; "Wespennest" doesn't give in to resignation; "Le Monde diplomatique" (Berlin) enters the belly of the piggy bank; "Vikerkaar" heeds cultures' anthropophagic appeal; "Dialogi" warns of a cultural wasteland in Maribor; and "Kritika & Kontext" returns a lost son to Bratislava.
Carl Henrik Fredriksson
Eurozine, Vienna (Editor-in-Chief)
António Sousa Ribeiro
Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais (Center for Social Sciences at the University of Coimbra), Coimbra
Märt Väljataga
Vikerkaar, Tallinn
Mircea Vasilescu
Dilema veche, Bukarest
Gaby Zipfel
Mittelweg 36 (Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung), Hamburg
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