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The end of peace? | Eurozine

Any aftermath needs to be thought about beforehand. Questions need to be asked now about what we want after Russian and Ukrainian weapons have stopped

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Travellers in a liminal world

The run-up to Poland’s bitterly fought election on 15 October generated a spate of anti-immigrant stories in pro-government media, with suggestions that non-white newcomers are

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Our human responsibility | Eurozine

‘When violence answers violence in a growing frenzy that makes the simple language of reason impossible, the role of the intellectual cannot be … to

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Politicizing resource scarcity | Eurozine

Since the 1990s, water has been called the ‘oil of the twenty-first century’ or the ‘blue gold’ over which wars will inevitably be fought. This

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Sleepwalkers | Eurozine

It is difficult to follow the recent events in Israel – the latest salvo of cascading violence in a war that has lasted for over

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Endgame in Paris | Eurozine

On February 13th 1936, the French socialist leader Léon Blum left the Palais Bourbon in Paris, the site of the lower house of parliament, to

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The crisis of criticism | Eurozine

It is no secret that the field of criticism as a writerly practice – in art, music, literature, what have you – is in some

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From your post-Yugo: The Doomsday clock is still ticking

It is said that generals are always well prepared to fight the last war. They look back at their formative times as young officers and

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Kundera’s homecoming | Eurozine

Adam Reichardt: Although Milan Kundera was an internationally known writer with some ground-breaking books and essays, he was a very private person. You knew him

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Our enemy is not Tchaikovsky himself

This article first appeared in Positionen 136, reviewed by Eurozine. Despite the personal shock felt by every Ukrainian, the full-scale Russian attack on Ukraine on