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Between states: the Transylvanian question and the European idea during World War II
The "Transylvanian question" and European statehood -- "Why we fight" -- Homefront as battlefield -- A league of their own -- The "Jewish question" meets the Transylvanian question -- A "new Europe"?
A Dialectical Cure for Germany's Angst?
In: Current history: a journal of contemporary world affairs, Band 123, Heft 851, S. 116-118
ISSN: 1944-785X
At a time of soul-searching and demoralization in Germany, a revival of the great philosopher of history might provide guidance—but many Germans prefer to avoid thinking about their country's history.
The Mobile Fortress
In: Current history: a journal of contemporary world affairs, Band 121, Heft 833, S. 114-116
ISSN: 1944-785X
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán rails against migration from countries outside of Europe, yet he has been eager to grant citizenship to Hungarian-speakers from countries in the near abroad. Like other populist conservative leaders in the region, he promotes a fortress mentality, based on fear of an "uncertain world," to remake his country—renewing strategies pursued by Hungarian governments in the early twentieth century.
Whose Absolutism?
In: Current history: a journal of contemporary world affairs, Band 120, Heft 824, S. 121-124
ISSN: 1944-785X
Frederick the Great, king of Prussia, was an Enlightenment philosophe as well as an absolute monarch. His writings, available in a new translation, reveal a complex character and raise questions about government and autocracy in contemporary Europe.
Saving What We Love
In: Current history: a journal of contemporary world affairs, Band 119, Heft 815, S. 114-116
ISSN: 1944-785X
The Trouble With Overcoming the Ancien Régime
In: Current history: a journal of contemporary world affairs, Band 118, Heft 806, S. 117-119
ISSN: 1944-785X
An ambitious attempt to trace the uneven progress toward liberal democracy over several centuries of European history may have drawn the wrong conclusions for dealing with today's illiberals.
Introduction: Austria-Hungary as Ancien régime du jour
In: Slavic review: interdisciplinary quarterly of Russian, Eurasian and East European studies, Band 78, Heft 4, S. 895-899
ISSN: 2325-7784
Shape-Shifting Illiberalism in East-Central Europe
In: Current history: a journal of contemporary world affairs, Band 116, Heft 788, S. 112-115
ISSN: 1944-785X
In Hungary and Poland, populist leaders with authoritarian tendencies have drawn on the cynical power-holding playbooks of the old communist regimes whose traces they vowed to erase.
Hope and Scandal in Hungary
In: Dissent: a quarterly of politics and culture, Band 62, Heft 3, S. 118-125
ISSN: 1946-0910
White God could be an allegory about Hungary—a proud creature, kicked around and abused, diminished and blamed, that eventually lashes out in fury. Or maybe it's about how Hungary has treated some of its own since the second half of the nineteenth century—assimilating them, but forever suspecting them of betrayal; marginalizing them, persecuting them outright, or even killing them. And so, as in the film, the odd victim leaps up to tear out the jugular of a Hungarian guard in a single snap.
THE "SOCIAL QUESTION," 1820–1920
In: Modern intellectual history: MIH, Band 13, Heft 3, S. 747-775
ISSN: 1479-2451
In 1921, John A. Ryan, a priest and professor at Catholic University in Washington, DC, and one of his students, the Reverend Raymond McGowan, publishedA Catechism of the Social Question. The first question in it reads, "What do we mean by the social question?" Answer: "Aquestiondenotes a problem or a difficulty which demands solution. A social question is one that concerns society, or a social group. The social question means certain evils and grievances affecting the wage-earning classes, and calling for removal or remedy."
Review: Chad Bryant, Prague in Black: Nazi Rule and Czech Nationalism, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007; xv + 378 pp; $49.95 hbk; ISBN10: 0674024516
In: Journal of contemporary history, Band 44, Heft 3, S. 561-563
ISSN: 1461-7250
The Combined Legacies of the “Jewish Question” and the “Macedonian Question”
In: Bringing the Dark Past to Light, S. 352-376
From a Place of Paradoxical Plurals
In: Journal of Austrian-American history, Band 7, Heft 1, S. 18-26
ISSN: 2475-0913
Abstract
The contribution describes István Deák as both personification and propagator of paradoxical plurals, or seemingly self-contradictory elements concentrated in a single entity. Drawing on examples from his life, scholarship, public-facing writings, and extensive interview material, the authors explore this facet of his career and person.
Introduction
In: Global society: journal of interdisciplinary international relations, Band 24, Heft 1, S. 3-8
ISSN: 1469-798X