Iron Curtains of the Mind
Iron Curtains of the Mind
Author(s): Benjamin Tallis, Derek SayerSubject(s): Governance, Political history, Recent History (1900 till today), International relations/trade, Political behavior, EU-Accession / EU-DEvelopment, Asylum, Refugees, Migration as Policy-fields
Published by: SAGE Publications Ltd
Keywords: Iron Curtain; 20th century; Eastern Europe; political history; politics; Czech Republic; Czech politics; European Union; referendums on EU membership; Muslim refugees;
Summary/Abstract: The Iron Curtain may have been drawn back in 1989–1991, but you wouldn’t know it to read much of the commentary on the Czech parliamentary elections – and much recent commentary on ‘Eastern Europe’ more generally. Much attention has been lavished on comparing Czech politician Andrej Babiš to Viktor Orban, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, Donald Trump and, more plausibly, to Silvio Berlusconi, but this has obscured deeper problems in western analyses of the region. Many of the sins laid at the door of central and eastern Europeans are no less prevalent in western countries, but this is too often lost amidst enduring Cold War stereotypes.
- Issue Year: 26/2018
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 133-135
- Page Count: 3
- Language: English
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