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Francis Fukuyama, Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014.

At the end of October the Lithuanian port Klaipeda witnessed a historic event. The LNG vessel, named Independence, anchored there, built in South Korea and outfitted with Norwegian liquefied natural gas technology and crew. It was welcomed by the President Dalia Grybauskaité as well as by the prime ministers of Latvia and Estonia. After it…

Cityscape of Minsk embodies the imaginary environment of the Belarusian power as a legitimate successor of the socialist state.

The social contract between private owners and the Russian government that existed for the past ten to fifteen years is being revoked before our eyes. What will replace it?

People want to get rich. They can go to great lengths to achieve that. This rule is behind capitalism’s success. Its logical consequence has nearly become the cause of the system’s disaster.

After the Prime Minister Viktor Orbán openly proclaimed his wish of developing an “illiberal state” in Hungary, there is a theoretical need to define the real nature of this autocratic regime.

Since the collapse of Communism, the above triad serves Polish politicians to construct their political and economic agendas. Regardless of the political option, in the programmes of all Polish parties and the statements and actions of their leaders and rankand- file activists, these values are paramount. I suspect that it comes primarily from the still…

Some Croats compare Aloysius Stepinac to Cardinals Stefan Wyszyński and József Mindszenty. But neither the Polish nor the Hungarian “Prince of the Church” had an episode of collaboration with a satellite state of the Third Reich in their biography.

In Latin America, even the Right is talking like the Left. In recent times, this is the only way to win elections in most countries of the region. But to be able to rule afterwards, you must make deals with big money. And then you do your own thing—as much as possible.

As far as foreign politics is concerned, the Czech Republic tends to be rather dull and timid. There are only few topics that can put Czech diplomats into motion, one of them being Czech Republic’s keen interest in Israel and its destiny. What are the sources of this Czech specialty?

The Ukraine crisis presents a new challenge to the relationship between the U.S. and us, the new countries of the EU. It is the most serious test since the end of the Cold War.

The Kremlin believes soft power to be a set of tools for manipulation, a sort of weapon.

What is the political situation in the country after this year’s autumn municipal and Senate elections, twenty-five years after the fall of Communism in 1989? We have an unpredictable president with an astronomical ego and small sense of responsibility. President Miloš Zeman seems reliable when it comes to strong ties between the Czech Republic and…

Russia is the main ally of Bashar al-Assad. The game around Ukraine is seen in the Middle East as an extension of the Syrian issue—says Gilles Kepel in conversation with Jacques Rupnik.