Preface
- This volume, the fourth in the series of yearbooks published by transform! europe, is appearing one year before the European Parliament elections. Despite moderate economic growth the process of European integration is in political crisis. Our volume is characterised by a critical evaluation of integration as such.
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Europe, the World, and the Left
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By
Gregor Gysi
- A clarification at the outset: ‘Europe’ is used here both as an abbreviation for the European Union and a term for ongoing integration processes, in other words, ‘Europeanisation’. It goes without...
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Walter Baier
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Samir Amin
- Walter Baier: The world always has been a dangerous place, but now it seems to have reached its most dangerous moment since the Second World War. Some say it has to do with Trump. Others believe that...
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By
Jan Kavan
- Europe is at a crossroads and has been there now for some time. One could even say that a spectre is haunting Europe – a spectre of several fears: fear of terrorism, of Islam, of war, Russia, China,...
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By
Veronika Sušová-Salminen
- It is almost ten years now since the beginning of the Great Recession, and both the European Union as a whole and its individual Member States are still struggling. The Greek debt crisis is not over,...
Confronting ‘Governance’ and Exit – Whither the European Union?
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By
Leonardo Paggi
- The crisis of the European Union is developing in a continually more unmistakable direction through the inextricable intertwining of three problems: a) Its interrupted development. The data speak...
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By
Ilona Švihlíková
- Economic reforms for the EU are – once again – in the limelight. Although the prevalent view is that the current situation of the euro area is not sustainable (and certainly cannot be called socially...
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By
Joachim Bischoff
- The growth rate of global GDP has increased markedly in the second half of 2016. The main contributors to this are the capitalist core countries, and the most important factors for the accelerated...
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By
Marisa Matias
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José Gusmão
- There is an apparent moment of peace in the European Union. A moderate economic recovery is being made the basis for a number of quite optimistic declarations and initiatives regarding the future of...
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By
Axel Troost
- The most recent meeting of the EU heads of state and government perfectly illustrated the strain under which the European project currently finds itself. Today the European Union is facing the most...
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By
Marica Frangakis
- A significant change has taken place in the state of affairs of the EU in the aftermath of the global financial crisis in 2007/2008, which morphed into a debt crisis in the Eurozone in 2009/2010. What...
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By
John Grahl
- It is increasingly obvious that Brexit is a Luddite project, one that will severely damage the existing productive systems which link Britain to the other members of the EU. Damage will result from...
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By
Erhard Crome
- At a certain level of abstraction one might say that international relations in Europe after the Cold War are shaped by diverse, partly opposed, processes:
The integration processes in the framework...
Right and Left Populism – Elections and Security Policy
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By
Walter Baier
- A sigh of relief was breathed throughout Europe at Emmanuel Macron’s victory over Marine Le Pen in France’s presidential elections, although in the second round the Front National’s candidate got...
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By
Yann Le Lann
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Antoine de Cabanes
- The electoral cycle of 2017 is a turning point in France’s political landscape; the presidential and legislative elections were a major rupture which upset the political field. Historically, French...
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By
Friedrich Burschel
- An ethnic-nationalist citizens’ movement has finally emerged in Germany too, and in record time; and with the entrance into the Bundestag of the Alternative für Deutschland it is becoming normalised.
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By
Rafał Pankowski
- Once Europe’s most multi-cultural country, Poland is nowadays the most homogenous nation-state on the continent. Ethnic minorities amount to less than 2 per cent of the population, yet the...
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Dirk Burczyk
- In what follows I would like to explore possible answers to the question of public security from a radical-democratic, basic-rights-oriented perspective. This requires first staking out the political...
The Battle Over Public History – Anti-fascism and the New Totalitarianism Discourse
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By
Haris Golemis
- The revision of the history – European and worldwide – of what Hobsbawm called ‘The Short Twentieth Century’ (1914-1991) by means of equating Communism to Nazism has an impact on European integration...
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By
Leonardo Paggi
- The challenge facing European political democracy is reflected in the fragmentation of its historical consciousness. With a new monetary system (1944), the Marshall Plan (1947), and NATO (1950) a...
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By
Thilo Janssen
- For the centenary of the 1917 Russian Revolution conservative parties of the EU organised a whole series of events dealing with the heritage of communist regimes. The Estonian Presidency of the EU...
Two Anniversaries: 150 Years of Marx’s Capital – 100 Years after the Hungarian Soviet Republic
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By
Lajos Csoma
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The wave of world revolution between 1917 and 1923 that swept through the entire globe was a fundamental event of the twentieth century. The Russian Revolution in February 1917 proved to be the...
The Christian-Marxist Dialogue
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By
Walter Baier
- During the private audience that Alexis Tsipras, then still leader of Greece’s parliamentary opposition, and I had with the Pope in 2014, which, as L’Osservatore Romano reported, lasted 35 minutes,...
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By
Luciana Castellina
- At the second WMPM (World Meeting of Popular Movements), held in Bolivia in 2015, after the first which took place in Rome in 2014, President Evo Morales presented Pope Francis with a cross composed...
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By
Michael Löwy
- A few weeks ago I took part in a Conference in Brescia in honour of the 60th anniversary of Paul VI’s Encyclica Populorum Progressio (March 1967). This document contains interesting reflections on the...
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By
Piero Coda
- In the brief reflections offered here I am prompted by a provocative idea of the philosopher Emmanuel Lévinas and by an approach enunciated by Pope Francis.
1. Lévinas writes in Otherwise Than Being,...
Book Order
- Yearbook as eBook available soon.
INTEGRATION – DISINTEGRATION – NATIONALISM. transform! 2018 Edited by Walter Baier, Eric Canepa and Eva Himmelstoss
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