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Constitutional Identities in Central and Eastern Europe

In: Central and Eastern European Forum for Legal, Political, and Social Theory Yearbook Ser v.76446272

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Abstract

Cover -- Copyright information -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- Part I Central and Eastern Europe Reexamined: The 'CEE Forum' -- Introduction -- References -- The (First) Ten Years of the CEE-Forum: Timeline, Data and Assessment -- 1 Introductory remarks -- 2 Timeline: an academic journey from 2009 to 2018 -- 2.1 2009 - The birth of an idea and the first CEE Forum -- 2.2 2010 - The conference goes to Budapest -- 2.3 2011 - The formation of the settled 'CEE-Forum format': conference, yearbook, and online presence -- 2.4 2018 - The tenth birthday of the CEE-Forum in Timi ș oara -- 3 Some basic data on the CEE-Forum -- 3.1 Geographical expansion -- 3.2 Participants and presentation -- 3.3 The CEE-Forum Yearbook -- 4 General assessment -- 5 Conclusion -- Part II Constitutional Identities: Theoretical Frameworks -- In Quest of Democratic Values and Identities in Central European Constitutionalism: on the Post-1989 Histories and Politics in the Czech Republic 1 -- From 1918 to 1989, our main threats were external, first Germany and then the Soviet Union, but today the biggest danger seems to come from within. Do we have the strength needed to defend our democracy? -- So you would say that value pluralism is not relativism, as we sometimes hear. Can you expand on that? In what circumstances could we talk about relativism? -- But how do you want pluralistic democracies to defend themselves against totalitarian ideologies when people are clamouring ever more insistently for simple solutions in a globalised and bewildering world? -- Democracy is a culture that defines the framework of what is acceptable, but the protracted absence of a political elite and two totalitarian regimes heave meant that this tradition of high culture is lacking in our country ….