Key Country Czech Republic
Politics and Society in the Middle of Europe

Osteuropa 4-6/2021
Vladimír Handl, Manfred Sapper, Volker Weichsel (Ed.)
Berlin 2021 [= Osteuropa, 4-6/2021]
432 pages, 69 figures, 24 maps
Price: 32,00 €

Deutsche Fassung

Contents

• Editorial
  Key Country Czech Republic
• Martin Schulze Wessel
  Czechoslovakia
  Structural Problems of a State (1918–1992)
• Miroslav Kunštát
  “God is Gone, but His Smell’s Still There”
  Church, Religion, and State in the Czech Republic
• Alfrun Kliems
  City, Country, Forest
  Spatial Imagery in Czech Film at the Turn of the Century

• Elements and Origins of Prague Politics

• Kai-Olaf Lang, Volker Weichsel
  Conflict instead of Struggle
  A Conversation about Politics and Society in the Czech Republic
• Vlastimil Havlík, Martin Mejstřík
  Parties on the brink?
  The Crisis of Representative Democracy in the Czech Republic
• Ondřej Císař, Michal Kubát
  Populism in the Czech Republic
  An East Central European Regional Comparison
• Stanislav Balík
  Regions in the Czech Republic
  Regional Policies in East Central Europe: a comparative approach
• Zuzana Lizcová
  Under Pressure
  On the State of the Press in the Czech Republic
• Christiane Brenner
  Women, Men, Dada?
  Czech Gender Relations

• Limits to Globalisation

• Vladimír Handl
  Familiar Strangers
  Czech-German Relations, 1989-2021
• Zdeněk Sychra
  Dream, Nightmare, Reality
  The Czech Republic’s European Policy
• Ondřej Ditrych
  Great Powers, Small World
  The United States, Russia, and China in Czech Foreign Policy
• Markéta Klásková
  Limited Mobility
  The Czech Republic in the International System of Migration

• Human Rights in Foreign Policy. Documentation of a Czech Debate

• Petr Drulák
  Human Rights as a Danger in Foreign Policy
• Šimon Pánek
  “Human Rights as a Danger to Foreign Policy”
  A Response to Petr Drulák
• Rudolf Fürst
  China and Human Rights
  Notes on a Misguided Debate
• Jakub Eberle
  Arms Exports and Human Rights
  Blind Spots of a Debate

• The Wealth of the Nation

• Petr Zahradník
  World Champion Exporter Czech Republic
  Fundamentals and Problems of an Economic Model
• Zuzana Lizcová
  Silicon Valley instead of Extended Workbench?
  The Czech Republic in the Global Knowledge-Based Society
• Tomáš Ehler
  Autarky and Self-Determination
  Czech Energy Policy amid Europe’s Competing Interests
• Marcela Efmertova, Jan Mikeš, Jaroslav Knápek
  Electrification and Europeanization
  A Brief History of Power Grids in the Czech Republic
• Tomáš Nigrin, Pavel Szobi
  The Czech Republic’s Transport Sector
  National and European Paths

• The Age of Extremes

• Jiří Holý
  Leaden Times, Gilded Times
  Czech Literature since 1945
• Michal Pullmann
  Disputed Past
  Debating Communist Rule
• Pavel Kolář
  The Prague Spring as Cause for Thought
  Between Disillusion, Grief, and Melancholy

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