A Task for Sisyphus
Iulius Rostas. A Task for Sisyphus. Why Europe’s Roma Policies Fail (Budapest-New York: CEU Press, 2019). Despite an increase in the number of EU and government initiatives in their favor, the situation of Roma in Europe has only worsened. This book explores the many miscalculations, misconceptions, and blunders that have led to this failure. For Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Romania, Rostas shows how policy makers in each country...
Osservatorio Sociale Mitteleuropeo (OSME)
Osservatorio Sociale Mitteleuropeo (OSME) Si tratta di un’agenzia che si propone di monitorare il mondo del lavoro e degli affari sociali in Ungheria in Slovacchia e nella Repubblica Ceca, tre realtà che fanno parte del gruppo di paesi entrati nell’Unione europea il primo maggio del 2004. L’intento dell’Osservatorio è quello di fornire agli interessati degli aggiornamenti inizialmente bisettimanali su quanto riguarda le complesse...
Vocabularies of International Relations after the Crisis in Ukraine
Andrey Makarychev, Alexandra Yatsyk Vocabularies of International Relations after the Crisis in Ukraine The conflict in Ukraine and Russia’s annexation of Crimea has undoubtedly been a pivotal moment for policy makers and military planners in Europe and beyond. Many analysts see an unexpected character in the conflict and expect negative reverberations and a long-lasting period of turbulence and uncertainty, the de-legitimation...
Semantics of Space
Semantics of Space Conceptual History Perspectives 23–24 January 2017 German Historical Institute, Rome Via Aurelia Antica, 391 Spaces of Expectation is a collaborative research project based at Södertörn University, Stockholm and Ca’ Foscari University, Venice. Its objective is comparative research on mental mapping, historical imagination, and political uses of historical narratives in the Baltic Sea and Mediterranean regions. The...
The EU and Russia in Their Contested Neighbourhood
By Laure Delcour The EU and Russia in Their ‘Contested Neighbourhood’ Multiple External Influences, Policy Transfer and Domestic Change The literature on the European Union influence’s in its Eastern neighbourhood has tended to focus on EU-level policies and prioritize EU-related variables. This book seeks to overcome this EU-centric approach by connecting EU policy transfer to the domestic and regional environment in...
