L'ombre de l’Empire : la géopolitique russe de l’Europe orientale aux Balkans

Russian Geopolitics in Eastern and Southeastern Europe, assume une position normative forte, et certaines de ses propositions historiques ou comparatives gagneraient à être davantage nuancées. Mais les questions qu’il pose sont difficiles à contourner. Son apport le plus singulier tient peut-être précisément à ce déplacement du regard : la géopolitique ne se présente pas de la même manière lorsqu’on l’observe depuis ses marges, depuis des sociétés pour lesquelles la rivalité des grandes puissances n’est pas seulement une catégorie des relations internationales, mais une expérience historique récurrente.

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From Flamingos to Magpies: Why Transparency Matters

The experience of East Germany and the Czech Republic after communism offers an important point of comparison, even if the processes followed different paths. Lustration became one of the institutional means through which these societies confronted the question of who had participated in the former repressive apparatus and in what capacity. There is an entire literature about the strange and painful experience of opening one’s own file and discovering oneself as the state once watched, classified, and recorded you. Albania never seriously completed such a reckoning with its past.

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Transparenca: Kushti Themelor i Revolucionit të Flamingove

Në Gjermaninë Lindore, në vendet baltike apo në Çeki, procesi i lustracionit shërbeu si mekanizëm institucional për të pastruar hapësirën publike, duke treguar qartë kush ishte pjesë e aparatit shtypës dhe kush jo. Timothy Garton Ash ka shkruar gjatë mbi këtë përvojë, mbi çka do të thotë të hapësh dosjen tënde dhe ta lexosh veten siç e ka parë aparati i shtetit. Shqipëria nuk e kaloi kurrë këtë proces seriozisht.

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