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Published in: Can Europe Make It?: OpinionA shrinking space: media capture in Orbán’s Hungary
The demise of a once thriving independent broadcaster is yet another signpost in Hungary's deteriorating democracy...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Why Catalonia is not the Balkans
An analysis of where the Spain/Yugoslavia comparison succeeds, and where it fails.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The Slovenian United Left: from protest to movement, and from movement to party
Overlooked by many in Europe, a quickly growing radical left party in Slovenia is providing an example to movement...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Democracy, 25 years after Yugoslavia
Just how democratic are the former Yugoslav countries today?
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Media freedom in Slovenia
Even though Slovenia is "no longer under Communism" critical journalism in the country is still under siege and...
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Published in: HomeSpectre: I see a red door and I want it painted black
The attempts to escape the nightmare of Stalinism provoke false fantasy alternatives, of vacuous democratic...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The future of the past: why the end of Yugoslavia is still important
A new socialist model is emerging in the western Balkans. Can its political vocabulary transcend the ethno-national...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The new Balkan revolts: from protests to plenums, and beyond
The current wave of protests in Bosnia may represent the birth of true activist citizenship. These movements...
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Published in: HomeSlovenia in turmoil
In the last months, a wave of protest and anger has swept through Slovenia, as thousands of people challenge the...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?There and back again? Media freedom and autonomy in Central and Eastern Europe
Collusion between the press and politicians is not confined to western Europe. Central and Eastern European...
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Published in: HomeCatalunya and Spain: more than time for dialogue
In addressing Catalunya's call for autonomy, the EU and Spain must remember lessons from Slovenia’s case for...
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Published in: HomeGlobal trade politics and the spectre of the public
This opening paper of the workshop, Creating publics, Creating democracies (see this week's theme) explores the...
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Published in: HomeYugoslavs in the twenty-first century: ‘erased’ people
Two decades after the dissolution of Yugoslavia, Balkan countries have a complicated relationship with their...