AUTHOR'S BIO
Jacques Rupnik
Jacques Rupnik is Director of Research, Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Internationales (CERI), Paris, and Visiting Professor at the Collège d’Europe, Bruges.
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The Return of Post-Communism
Jacques Rupnik Series: The Worldly Philosophers 2006-12-29The collapse of communism in Central and Eastern Europe 15 years ago brought vast and positive democratic changes. But in 2006, after more than a decade of striving for acceptance by the West, the moral and political vacuum left by communism was fully exposed. Can a new balance between the democratic ethos and the undertows of the region’s political history and culture be found?... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 13694
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Look East To Save Europe's Social Market
Jacques Rupnik Series: The World in Words 2004-04-23As expansion of the EU approaches, many Europeans see in it only things to be feared: masses of economic migrants, and poor countries demanding subsidies. But Europe's new eastern members can also act as a beacon for the Union, as Jacques Rupnik suggests.... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 10335
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The Other Central Europe
Jacques Rupnik Series: The World in Words 2002-04-15A specter is haunting Central Europe as its countries prepare for EU membership. That promising development is being endangered by a fevered electoral nationalism which seeks to gain votes by promising to reopen old wounds and settle old scores. ... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 7784
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Who Will Speak For The Larger Europe?
Timothy Garton Ash, Michael Mertes, Jacques Rupnik and Aleksander Smolar Series: The World in Words 2000-09-19The top priority for the European Union at the beginning of the twenty first century must be the historic project concealed beneath the rather boring label of ‘enlargement’. The prize is something that has never been achieved in European history: the building of a liberal order that embraces the whole continent. ... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 7729
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Europe after the Kosovo War
Timothy Garton Ash, Janos Kis, Adam Michnik, Jacques Rupnik, Karel Schwarzenberg, Milan M. Šimečka and Aleksander Smolar Series: The World in Words 1999-07-23The Kosovo war should force the European Union to rethink its future. As the new commission chaired by Romano Prodi takes over it should seize the opportunity to move the EU from an inward looking institution consumed with an economic agenda to an all-European political project. ... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 6047
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