...orks-formed for the sake of family, faith, interest, and ideology--that fill this space. Central and East Europe an dissidence flourished within a highly restricted version of civil society, and the fi...
...y." One wonders about the audience for Walzer's paper. It makes most sense as a reminder to East Europe ans who think that civil society can stand on its own, without political support. In Eas...
...tly become fashionable thanks to struggles against communist and military dictatorships, first in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, and second in Latin America. Accordingly, to some, it seems to in...
...or not there is a difference in the import of the end of the Cold War for the United States as opposed to Europe . Does the end of what we call the Cold War, or what we call the end of what we call the...
...ons--Catholic social thought and the democratic theorizing of civil society emerging from Central Eastern Europe --as sources of insight and strength for American political thinkers who, with me, have ...
...ity or subcommunity from another. And in precisely that spirit, I must introduce a question: how much can Europe learn from America, and how much can America learn from Europe , if what differentiates ...
... Nephew, Diderot tried to show the vanity and emptiness of the pre-revolutionary culture and character of Europe an life. This story about modernity does not fit in seamlessly with the story about auto...
Is there a common idea of the "left" in Europe and the United States? And should this idea be a "communitarian" one? Or is this "just another label"--as many people (espe
...important. This conclusion also has political meaning. The economic and political difficulties in Eastern Europe , for instance, demonstrate that nothing seems to be easier than establishing a market s...
...n a few short years many U.S. high-tech firms found themselves outspent and outmaneuvered by Japanese and Europe an companies whose home markets were secured by protectionist policies and who had acces...
...onvert socialist countries to capitalism than vice-versa. In fact, you can hardly find anyone nowadays in Europe to defend socialism at all. Socialism is considered as an ideal only for dreamers, bure...
...state, and even today the topic plays an important role in the scientific and political debate in Western Europe -- and North America. Ironically, this debate was started in the early 1960s ( M. Fried...
The United States, as has been said for at least 100 years, is different from Europe . And it has been different, it has been said over and over again, because of the importance of the doctrine of lais
The political world has been changing radically since the Central Europe an revolution of 1989. Instead of traditional bi-polar conflict, we now have the potential for multi-polar political conflict. S
...many observers in the West. What could have been more stark than the contrast between Western and Eastern Europe ? As the Europe an Community pursued new modes of integration, nationalist virulence asse...
...es of living through a period of global mass migration comparable to and potentially much bigger than the Europe an mass migration of 1880 to 1920. What we are seeing today is not a proof of the irres...
...ugh 1939, after the progression of democratic tendencies in the beginning of the 1920s, most countries in Europe gradually returned to autocratic, even fascist regimes. Today it is a fact that democra...
...cial costs of their integration into the world market, the peoples of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe have good reason to be apprehensive. In our own nation, meanwhile, the loud, triumphant...
As the Berlin wall and the Gulf War underscored, the Europe an Left is out of step with history. As long as Europe remains little more than an alibi for surrendering or converting to liberalism,
...the Berlin wall and more generally, the failure of communism in the (now former) Soviet Union and eastern Europe has suddenly put an end to half a century of cold war. The division of the world in two...
