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The Green Humboldt
Andrea Wulf, The Invention of Nature, Alexander von Humboldt’s New World. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2015. 473 pp.
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The Most Famous Female Writer of Europe?
Elena Ferrante, „My Brilliant Friend”, „The Story of a New Name”, „Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay”, „The Story of the Lost Child”, Penguin
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Centrifugal Force
Dennis Marks, Wandering Jew: The Search for Joseph Roth, Notting Hill Editions, 2016.
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Farewell to Central Europe
Let us consign the notion of Central Europe to the scrapheap. It imposes on us the idea of a fictitious historical and cultural community that does not match the reality of the region.
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China under Uncle Xi
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Germany Holds the Key to Schengen
No European nation has benefited as much from the abolition of custom checks between European Union states as Germans. Lately, however, they have been increasingly questioning not only the free…
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Leapfrogging
During the transition, societies of Central Europe were faced with a double challenge: to transform their economies from centrally planned to capitalist ones and at the same time subject them to the…
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Falling into the Middle Income Trap
The Central European policy of using cheap labor as an instrument of growth is reaching its limits.
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Opportunities and Risks for the Economies of Central Europe
Out of the eleven countries of the region which are members of the European Union only the Polish government declares that it does not intend to join the eurozone.
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A Small Country with a Big Problem