An interview with Zeev Sternhell, by Maciej NowickiWe can achieve a tolerable coexistence with Iran, remindful of the relationship between Western Europe and the Soviet Union during the Cold War—says Zeev Sternhell interviewed by Maciej Nowicki

The European approach to jihadists domestically is totally apolitical, therapeutic in concept, and focused on identifying and dealing with potential time bombs among our youth. Abroad, the approach of America and its European allies is primarily about dropping bombs. There is no long-term political strategy.

What makes a nation’s soul? One thinks of the cultural, historical and biological determinants, and if one thinks of these properly, one realizes that only surprisingly few are crucial. Among them recent history is most influential. As nations of Central Europe go, Czechoslovakia’s post war history marks it as an outlier. Its road to communist…

An interview with Włodzimierz Marciniak by Filip MemchesThe events in Ukraine are just an excuse for Russia’s confrontation with the West. The Kremlin adopted an insular model of Russia, threatened by enemies lurking around it—says prof. Włodzimierz Marciniak in conversation with Filip Memches.

The question of the size of the state is secondary to the question of the quality of the state. An inefficient small state is as much of a nuisance as an inefficient large state. It is a fact of modern life that the size of the state (in terms of public expenditures as a proportion…

This question may seem like a provocation. After all, do we not already have a European state?

To what extent German economy owes its success to the policy of the German state?

Politicians want a rapid economic and therefore political success. What they get instead are fading economic dynamics and risk of future crises.

The fundamental civilizational and cultural differences between America and Europe are a myth. The United States could very well be a member of the European Union. Of course, this is even less likely than EU membership of the Russian Federation. But it is worth knowing that in every possible aspect, such as attitude to religion,…

Peter Sloterdijk, Musisz życie swe odmienić [You must change your life], trans. Jaroslaw Janiszewski, PWN, Warsaw 2014

Eric Baratay, Le point de vue animal. Une autre version de l’histoire [“The animal point of view. Another version of the story “], SEUIL Edition

Carsten Kretschmann: Zwischen Spaltung und Gemeinsamkeit. Kultur im geteilten Deutschland, be.bra Verlag, Berlin-Brandenburg, 2012, ISBN 978-3-89809-412-2

Michael Gubser, The Far Reaches: Phenomenology, Ethics, and Social Renewal in Central Europe. (Stanford California: Stanford University Press, 2014).

No politician did more harm to the Polish-Czech relations than Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk. For him the “lordly” Poland symbolized everything he hated.

For all those who had staked their future— be it political or economic—on cooperation with Russia, the second half of 2014 was a time of heart-searching. This was initially sparked off by the outbreak of fighting in the east of Ukraine and later by the imposition of sanctions on Russia by Europe and the US,…

Hungary’s PM Viktor Orbán has been practicing seesaw politics between the East (Russia) and the West (Germany) for years. His aim is to exploit the relations with Russia and with Western partners alike. His pragmatic approach has not been without examples and predecessors in Europe. However, he made two mistakes which put him in a…

Fortunately for the world, no matter how “Asian” the Russian leadership may become, the Russians have been and remain an inherently European people.

Both liberal democracy and business environment in Central Europe suffer from the extreme level of formalism in making and implementing laws and regulations—the approach, which has unfortunately been eagerly promoted by the region’s legal elite.