The Centre for East European Studies of the University of Warsaw (STUDIUM EUROPY WSCHODNIEJ UW) is organising the Warsaw East European Conference, Eleventh Annual Session, to be held in Warsaw, July 10th-14th, 2014.
February 13, 2014 - New Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe has become an “unwanted child” for some Western countries, one they would prefer to forget about. From their perspective, the Eastern Partnership will absorb attention and financial resources as well as capabilities that should be exploited in the south of Europe. And yet the paradox is that success in Eastern Europe will be much easier to achieve.
February 13, 2014 - Dominik P. Jankowski and Paweł Świeżak
February 13, 2014 - New Eastern Europe
In the mid-1920s, the Soviet government embarked on a campaign to “engineer human souls”. How? It unleashed the full power of the state machine to fundamentally alter the behaviour and values of Soviet citizens. Never had there been, as Nobel Prize-winning Polish poet Czesław Miłosz put it, “such enslavement through consciousness” as the mastery over human minds was almost obsessive inside the Kremlin.
February 12, 2014 - Ola Cichowlas
For more than 80 days, the Ukrainians have been occupying the streets and so far nothing seems to suggest that the situation will stabilise. An unending extension of the sessions of the Verkhovna Rada and a lack of real compromises on the part of the authorities can at any moment lead to new social unrest. Now they fear not only a mass mobilisation but also the use of force.
February 11, 2014 - Paweł Pieniążek
Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev said last Friday that he is considering changing the name of his country.
February 10, 2014 - Zbigniew Rokita
An interview with Latvian Member of Parliament and former Ambassador to the United States Ojārs Kalniņš. Interviewer: Filip Mazurczak
February 7, 2014 - Filip Mazurczak
Thirty years ago, the West undertook a manoeuvre involving the use of chemical and nuclear arms against the USSR under the codename “Able Archer ‘83”. This only narrowly avoided the outbreak of a Third World War.
February 5, 2014 - Jacek Stawiski
February 5, 2014 - New Eastern Europe
Join private and public sector energy policy experts from Poland, Germany and the European Commission for a one-day event to discuss renewable energy in contemporary Poland on March 27th in Warsaw at the Intercontinental hotel.
February 4, 2014 - New Eastern Europe
The Celestial Wives of the Meadow Mari. A film directed by Alexey Fedorchenko, Russia, 2012.
February 4, 2014 - Heloisa Rojas Gomez
Join New Eastern Europe and the Casimir Pulaski Foundation for a panel a discussion titled: Belarus: Prospects and Challenges
February 3, 2014 - New Eastern Europe
The consequences of Russia’s invasion are visible not only in Ukraine. The Kremlin has set off or exploited a series of crises that face most European countries.
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New thinking is needed in policies towards Russia, in whatever form it will take after the war.
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Ukraine’s suffering goes well beyond the front line.
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With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine we now see our western values under siege, whether we consciously recognise it or not.
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The invasion by Russian forces of Ukraine from the north, south and east – with the initial aim to take the capital Kyiv – has changed our region, and indeed our world, forever.
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The situation with Russian threats towards Ukraine once again illustrates the high level of instability in our region.
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Only a year ago we witnessed the second Nagorno-Karabakh war between Armenia and Azerbaijan. It took at least 5,000 lives and significantly shifted the geopolitics in the South Caucuses.
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This special issue aims to honour the plight of Belarusians whose democratic choice made in August 2020 was shamelessly snubbed by Alyaksandr Lukashenka.
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From the social, economic and political points of view, a lot of work still remains for this country. And this is why Ukraine’s story is incomplete.
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Our societies are more polarised than ever before, which makes them more susceptible to disinformation, untruth and conspiracy theories.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed limitations and weaknesses in nearly all countries around the world.
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Uncertainty, volatility and the relationship between Russia and the West.
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The Black Sea region is quickly becoming a geopolitical battleground which is gaining the interest of major powers, regional players and smaller countries – and the stakes are only getting higher.
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This issue is dedicated to the 10 year anniversary of the European Union’s Eastern Partnership as well as the 30 years since the 1989 revolutions in Central Europe.
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The consequences of the emerging multipolar world.
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This issue takes a special look at the role and responsibility of the public intellectual in Central and Eastern Europe today.
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In the eastern parts of the European continent, 1918 is remembered not only as the end of the First World War, but also saw the emergence of newly-independent states and the rise of geopolitical struggles which are felt until this day.
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It often seems, at least from the outside, that Belarus remains isolated from the West and very static in its transformation. Yet, despite its relative isolation, Belarus is indeed changing.
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The Summer 2018 issue of New Eastern Europe tackles the complexity of para-states in the post-Soviet space.
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