Forty years on, the differences between the 1968 uprisings in western and eastern Europe move into ever sharper focus. "In retrospect, the great event of '68 in Europe was not Paris, but Prague. But we were unable to see this at the time."
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To coincide with the awarding of the 2016 Jean Améry Prize for European essay writing, Eurozine publishes essays by authors nominated for the prize, including a representative selection of Eurozine partner journals.
The Snowden leaks and the ensuing NSA scandal made the whole world debate privacy and data protection. Now the discussion has entered a new phase - and it's all about policy. A focal point on the politics of privacy: claiming a European value.
The fate of migrants and refugees attempting to enter Fortress Europe has triggered a new European debate on laws, borders and human rights. A debate riddled with the complex, often epic, narratives that underlie immediate crisis situations.
At a time when the global pull of democracy has never been stronger, the crisis of democracy has become acute. Eurozine has collected articles that make the problems of democracy so tangible that one starts to wonder if it has a future at all, as well as those that return to the very basis of the principle of democracy.
Defence spending in Europe is on the rise. The US threat to withdraw its military commitment has focused political discourse. And yet finding a unified response to Russia’s war escalating further in Ukraine and pushing into NATO territory, to Gaza and the Middle East, will be a challenge given Europe’s polarized views on militarization. Eurozine’s partners, from across Europe and beyond, in once colonial powers, neutral territories, ex- Soviet countries and neo-colonial nations, are well placed to analyse pressing issues from sanctions and pacificism to recruitment, weaponization and civil protection mechanisms.