Lev Gudkov on the roots of fear in Russian society; translation as survival strategy in Soviet Kyiv; why the EU needs to get real on Belarus; what the Armenia–Iran relationship means for the South Caucasus @osteuropa.bsky.social www.eurozine.com/phenomena-of...

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Was there something inherent to Milan Kundera’s concept of Central Europe that explains the logic of contemporary Polish, Hungarian, Czech and Slovak nationalism? By Przemysław Czapliński via Czas Kultury and @osteuropa.bsky.social www.eurozine.com/from-arch-eu...

Looking at what we have learned not to see: on the secrets of communist infrastructure; museums and mnemonic warriors; folklore and the spirit of community. Review of Scena9 www.eurozine.com/hic-sunt-leo...

A discussion with the historian Nancy L. Green on the historiography of migration from structuralism to intersectionality. Via L'Homme: European Review of Feminist History 2/2025 www.eurozine.com/challenging-...

Hermann Broch, Naguib Mahfouz, Manès Sperber: A trinity of trilogies

Fascinating, great interview! @lbenardo.bsky.social www.theideasletter.org/essay/a-pure...

Despite a semblance of calm, Maduro’s removal has unsettled the Venezuelan regime. Will Chavismo’s tried and tested combination of coercion and expectation management continue to delay the long-awaited rupture? By Pedro Garmendia via @letraslibres.com www.eurozine.com/venezuelas-s...

Against a backdrop of crime, corruption, inequality and sexual violence, Mexican novelists are returning to the tradition of the child narrator as way to pose questions about love, justice and human dignity. Via @ord-och-bild.bsky.social www.eurozine.com/mexicos-inne...

After years of hesitation, the series of atrocities committed by the Bosnian-Serb forces in 1995 prompted the West to finally intervene directly. NATO’s entry into the Bosnian War set in motion a fundamentally new development, writes Tihomir Loza via Transitions: www.eurozine.com/new-bosnia-p...

While lasting peace between the Turkish state and the Kurds now seems a genuine possibility, Ankara’s assault on Turkish democracy continues. Sırrı Süreyya Önder, the longtime dissident who died last year, remains a symbol of hope, writes @kayagenc.bsky.social www.eurozine.com/peace-be-the...

Contemporary Moldovan novelists continue to thematize the struggle for self-definition within a system designed to erase linguistic and ethnic identity. Taken together, their works form a literature of post-Soviet recovery. By Oxana Gherman via @neweasterneurope.eu www.eurozine.com/recovering-m...

The mid-21st century began in Caracas.

Crises tend to correlate with intense literary activity, but not necessarily with intellectual perspicacity. Our picks of 2025 have clearsightedness in abundance – as do all the articles Eurozine has had the privilege to publish in the past year. www.eurozine.com/our-picks-of...

The Dayton Agreement appeared as the triumph of the liberal post–Cold War order, but had been preceded by three years of political deadlock, with western policy driven primarily by media coverage of the atrocities in Bosnia. By Tihomir Loza via Transitions www.eurozine.com/the-war-that...

All human drama is encounter, and all human communication is translation. @sjgarnett.bsky.social @iwm.at

We live in a world where the borders between one language and another, between reality and non-reality, between the human and the non-human, are all being denied. Translation can be an antidote to this nihilism of borderlessness, writes @marcishore.bsky.social www.eurozine.com/encounters-i...

A]lthough Trump’s re-election could by no means be ruled out when the Ukraine war began, Western governments failed to grasp after Russia’s invasion that this conflict ... had to be concluded within Joe Biden’s term of office.' Disqualifies an otherwise good argument k-larevue.com/en/from-here...

A combination of geopolitics and economic pressure is weakening the political will behind the European Green Deal, the EPP leading the deregulatory offensive. Forests risk becoming collateral victims of a political U-turn. Kelsey Perlman via @revueprojet.bsky.social www.eurozine.com/europes-fore...

🔴 Journalist Fatih Altaylı given jail term, kept in prison ➡️ The court has sentenced Altaylı to 4 years and 2 months in prison and ruled that he should remain in custody on the grounds of “risk of flight” ✍️ Eylem Sonbahar www.expressioninterrupted.com/journalist-f...

The sharp drop in support for Ukraine in Italy has less to do with the traditionally Russia-friendly policy of the Italian right, and more with the anti-US sentiment rooted in the culture of the Italian left. By @tilmanalioscia.bsky.social via @neweasterneurope.eu www.eurozine.com/italy-and-ru...

The Authoritarian Stack: how tech billionaires are building a post-democratic America and why Europe is next. My new project is an interactive investigation and open data platform to expose tech authoritarianism and mobilize collective power for democratic alternatives. www.authoritarian-stack.info

A stunning conclusion to a stunning book @haymarketbooks.org www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2499-p...

'Obwohl beim Beginn des Ukraine-Kriegs schon eine erneute Wahl von Trump keineswegs ausgeschlossen werden konnte, haben die westlichen Regierungen nicht begriffen, dass dieser Konflikt ... unbedingt innerhalb der Regierungszeit von Joe Biden hätte beendet werden müssen.' 🧐

This is the real threat to BBC impartiality. A weekend read by me setting the shambles of the last fortnight in proper context www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...

New: for @equatormag.bsky.social I spent months talking to BBC journalists, from front-line reporters to the former head of the World Service, about how the corporation came unstuck over Gaza. But as I was working on the story, it collided with something... bigger... www.equator.org/articles/ins...

While civilizational rhetoric in the West reflects a sense of threat, globally it is recognition-seeking. Common to all civilizationalisms, however, is a blurring of the distinction between authoritarianism and democracy. By Hans Kundnani and Srirupa Roy www.eurozine.com/the-clash-of...

‘By going out of its way to appease its critics on the right – by, for example, providing disproportionate coverage of Reform and amplifying right-wing talking points from social media – the BBC has only fuelled the forces that are set on undermining it.’ Des Freedman www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...

But Prescott’s memo wasn’t an internal BBC document — it was unsolicited. And its “neutral” proof relies on partisan, Trump-aligned sources. Full analysis in Part Two: bylinetimes.com/2025/11/11/p... 7/12

As propagandists of a patriarchal order, tradwives perpetrate harm. But harm is being enacted on tradwives too. So why do some feminists see tradwifery as self-empowerment? By Katie Buckley via Dublin Review of Books www.eurozine.com/honey-im-home/

Why the only complaints the BBC fears are those from the right: @lewisgoodall.com on the Prescott Report. open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

The 33rd European Meeting of Cultural Journals will take place this weekend in the Slovenian–Italian cities of Nova Gorica/Gorizia, a ‘borderless’ European Capital of Culture in 2025. The conference is co-organized with Razpotja magazine. www.eurozine.com/translating-...

Eurozine is deeply saddened by the death of Judith Vidal-Hall, editor of @indexoncensorship.org from 1993–2006 and a longstanding member of Eurozine’s advisory board. We recall the deep and lasting mark she made on the network. www.eurozine.com/judith-vidal...

Strong argument by the legal and political historian Aziz Rana for the analytical fruitfulness of the term 'settler colonialism' across a very diverse range of contexts:

Eurozine is very saddened to hear of the death of Judith Vidal-Hall (1938–2025), a former editor of @indexoncensorship.org, former Eurozine editorial board member, and member of Eurozine’s advisory board since 2005. She will be deeply missed by the network and wider community.

Israel's war on Gaza inaugurates a global era in which consensus itself has lost legitimacy, writes Seyla Benhabib via Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik @blaetter.bsky.social @voelkerrechtsblog.org www.eurozine.com/gaza-and-the...

Interesting interview with Manfred Sapper editor Osteuropa @dgoberlin.bsky.social and Katharina Raabe editor @suhrkamp.de: - Access to authors in RU, BY and much of Caucasus near impossible, forcing reliance on diaspora - Public interest in Ukraine much diminished podcasts.apple.com/at/podcast/o...

Jewish people are not only divided over Israel, they also feel alienated from societies in which antisemitism is regularly disguised as anti-Zionism, writes Eva Illouz on the aftermath of October 7th. www.eurozine.com/after-octobe...

Mouin Rabbani as usual cutting through the noise (read to end): www.newarab.com/opinion/good...

A century after publication, ‘Mein Kampf’ is instructive not just about the mass appeal of delusional xenophobia, but also about the circumstances under which morality can become a form of terror. By Arnon Grunberg @arnonyy.bsky.social www.eurozine.com/the-elastici...

Abandoning the myths of statehood through negotiated settlement, younger Palestinians are defining the goals of liberation and return anew, writes Hazem Jamjoum via Vikerkaar 9/2025 (upcoming in Estonian). www.eurozine.com/left-alone-t...

Sven Lütticken and Ana Teixeira Pinto on political speech and the paradoxes of critique after Trump and Gaza; why the far right fills the gap left by restorationist liberalism; and how fascization depends on white middle-class solidarity www.eurozine.com/surviving-fa...

Founded to eradicate the legacies of colonialism, the African Union was supposed to have been a means to assert sovereignty. But it has proven ineffective in countering a combination of western and domestic power, writes Adéwálé Májà-Pearce www.eurozine.com/did-coloniza...

Education has become a battleground in the Kremlin’s campaign to militarize the Russian public consciousness. Youth organizations, book bans, changes to school curricula – all amount to a ‘special anthropological operation’, writes Andrei Kolesnikov @letraslibres.com www.eurozine.com/intellectual...

Israel has authorized a full military takeover of Gaza exactly 20 years after declaring it had ‘left’ the Strip. Disengagement failed because it was never designed to succeed – least of all on Palestinian terms. By @ytouval.bsky.social via @greeneujournal.bsky.social www.eurozine.com/setting-the-...

Imperial Russia saw the nation as the sea into which all the other Slavic cultures flowed. The idea persists today in way the region is studied in the West. Ukraine scholar @uilleamblacker.bsky.social pleas for institutional reform: www.eurozine.com/russia-is-no...

France risks becoming ungovernable. Many blame the situation on Macron’s autocratic style. But the problem lies deeper, in the development of the parties and party elites. By Gilles Bataillon via @letraslibres.com www.eurozine.com/a-political-...

When Belarusian society rose up five years ago, the century-old hopes of the national liberation movement seemed close to realization. What remains of those hopes today? By Uladzimir Liankievič in collaboration with @dekoder.org www.eurozine.com/my-testament/

Erdoğan’s silence about clampdowns on pro-Palestinian speech at US universities, even when Turkish students are directly affected, is telling, writes @kayagenc.bsky.social via @indexoncensorship.org www.eurozine.com/borrowing-fr...

'Die eigentliche Leistung des britischen Luftwaffenführungsstabes bestand darin, das Konzept des Air Policing aus dem Kontext der asymmetrischen Kriegführung gegen kolonisierte Volksgruppen auf den Staatenkrieg zwischen europäischen Industrienationen zu übertragen.'👇🏼 www.hsozkult.de/publicationr...