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How 9/11 Shaped the Outlook of an International Relations Theorist from Hungary
Like in a game where you have to remember where you were and what you were doing at the time of a given event, I still remember how I first heard about what happened in the US ten years ago. Due to the time difference, the tragic news reached Hungary […]
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Why Doesn’t Poland Have Any Nuclear Power Plants?
The answer to this question is a chronological sequence of various factors which have interacted ever since the Second World War. Coal The first factor is coal. Mother Nature has richly endowed the current territory of Poland with “black gold” as the Poles call it. Its coal reserves were sufficient […]
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Democratic transition in Slovakia – An Environmental Game-Changer
In her lead article Ulrike Reinhard asks wherever “democracies are dressing climate challenge better than non-democracies?” Let’s look at the case of Slovakia, a country that left the non-democratic socialist club in 1989 and after some time moved towards the European Union. Even in limiting the fight against climate change […]
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Lack of Public Confidence is the Main Issue facing Serbia’s NGO Sector
The Serbian NGO sector is facing many challenges today. A survey conducted in 2005 (but still applicable) by a group of international human rights organizations (Freedom House, Oxfam Netherlands, civic initiatives and the Federation of NGOs in Serbia – “Vanredno izdanje: NVO sektor u Srbiji“) highlighted a number of the main […]
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9/11 and Romania. Jumping into the American Void?
Did we have any choice other than to play the American card? Probably not. Did we go too far in playing the game? Probably yes. Corina Murafa analyzed 9/11’s effects on Romania