I found this post in my draft folder. I must have written it last summer. It is just a fragment at the moment, not a real essay, probably not even a proper blog post. It is not finished but somehow I am not motivated to work on it at the moment and before it becomes [...]
… ok, “week” as in “last 12 weeks”… and as you can see a rather short and subjective list… Neil MacFarlane We may be living post-historically. Russia is not. Russia Today Opposition candidates will get the right to lose elections. Mark Danner If Everybody Knew, Who’s To Blame? Timothy Garton Ash Europe is nice, boring [...]
Dmitry Medvedev joined Vladimir Putin in interpreting world affairs “in a Russian way”. Or is it just a ‘lecture’ in international politics for Sarah Palin? “Just by getting closer to Russia’s borders, NATO is not becoming stronger,” Medvedev said. “…what if Georgia had a NATO membership action plan? I would not wait for a second [...]
There has been a lot of talk about the role of information/propaganda during the war in Georgia. The question what information is actually correct has been one of the major problems in analysing the conflict. Robert Amsterdam posted a translation of Propaganda 2.0, a good article on the topic (here the original in German). Via [...]
Russia Blog: The Misconception of Russian Authoritarianism This looks interesting. Don’t forget the other 5 parts! “Kevin Cyron, an American living in the Russian Federation who recently graduated with a Masters degree in Sociology from St. Petersburg State University, has agreed to Russia Blog publishing his thesis titled, “The Misconception of Russian Authoritarianism (doc)“. Continental [...]
Public perceptions of the EU as a system of governance Good overview on the state of research… Is Europe doing any good in Chad? | Certain ideas of Europe Apparently there is not much to do in Chad. Sudan is far away, the local dictator feels more secure, and anyway, the EU mission has the [...]
Corruption in eastern Europe | Talking of virtue, counting the spoons The state of the elites in Eastern Europe. It seems as if especially anti-corruption agencies and justice ministries are very reform resistant. Or as the Economist puts it: “Yet from the Baltic to the Balkans, even politicians facing the most startling accusations of corruption [...]
Edward Lucas talks about his new book (The new cold war – How the Kremlin Menaces Both Russia and the West) at Google HQ: Edward Lucas talks about his new book (The new cold war – How the Kremlin Menaces Both Russia and the West) at Google HQ: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMtTja8uA8Y]
The “Kosmolinks” are finally back, and with the help of diigo I will try to make it a weekly feature! You can also watch and navigate through a slide show of all live pages of “Kosmolinks”: Just click here to start the “WebSlides”! Medvedev’s Russia A bunch of experts share their views about the new [...]
twitter
kosmopolit @ twitter- kosmopolit: @Lionelsola that is also misleading as the post is not about FT's opinion - but a summary of a eurobarometer poll cc @spignal @ringrda February 2, 2012
- kosmopolit: [being a EU Commissioner]"is about as high as an official can climb in the eurocracy."-> misleading opening by @spignal http://t.co/vy5omNuv February 2, 2012
- kosmopolit: @wettach Oh - Interessant, mit oder ohne US? Irgendwelche Erfahrungen mit Zeitungsabos? February 2, 2012
- kosmopolit: RT @ECFRheadlines: What's your take on Europe's foreign policy? Do you disagree with our grading? http://t.co/jgwPTmRO Blog it & let us ... February 2, 2012
- kosmopolit: @wettach Idee des Artikels war doch eher zu zeigen dass die AGBs suboptimal fur Endnutzer sind. Stimmt, Problem ist DRM im ebook Markt... February 2, 2012
-
-
- Bloggingportal.eu – Editors’ choice
- ... Kaffee bei mir?: Gegen Warnhinweise: DigiGes stellt Bundes-Studie eigenen Schattenbericht gegenüber February 4, 2012
- Erkan's field diary: Europeans fighting against ACTA and snow… A Eurosphere roundup February 3, 2012
- #euroblog: AnTyx: ACTA Is Not Evil; It Should Be Rejected Anyway - Part One February 3, 2012
- Grahnlaw: Piercing ACTA armour February 3, 2012
- The Honeyball Buzz: European Parliament makes strong progress on outlawing counterfeiting February 3, 2012
- L'Europe Libre: Le charme réel, mais somme toute superficiel, de madame Merkel à Pékin February 3, 2012
- #euroblog: Guttenberg - das Gespräch | Stephan Urbach February 2, 2012
- Brussels Blog (Financial Times): Who’s the highest-profile European Commissioner? February 2, 2012
- #euroblog: Nye mødeformater skal sikre EU-resultater | Mandag Morgen February 2, 2012
- #euroblog: The German view of the crisis | The World | International affairs blog from the FT – FT.com February 1, 2012
-
Creative Commons
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.-
