The failure of forced Europeanization and the birth of defensive nationalist democracy in Estonia
The EU accession process over, writes Tonis Saarts, Estonia's rightwing party politics has found a new rallying cry: the threat of Russia. [ more ]
"Index" follows counter terrorism from the courtroom to the community; "Osteuropa" anticipates a renaissance of Jewish life in eastern Europe; "The Hungarian Quarterly" has it out with eastern European savages; "Dilema veche" goes undercover in Italy; "Host" asks who flies the flag of commitment; "Kulturos barai" deplores toothless journalism; "Akadeemia" celebrates academia; "Magyar Lettre Internationale" debates '68 East and West; and "Fronesis" reads Marx beyond Marxism.
Professor of Politics and Sociology. Université de la Sorbonne-Nouvelle, Paris.
Islamism itself does not prove the absence of secularization or rejection of modernity. Nor does it represent a natural return to any authenticity, writes Burham Ghalion. It is rather an attempt to substitute national politics in crisis with religion as the foundation of an eventual political identity. [more]
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