Aviezer Tucker: Democracy against Liberalism: Its Rise and Fall. (Cambridge: Polity, 2020. Pp. 211.)

Westler, Brendon

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“…Here the situation in the Czech Republic partly follows the more general trends in Western societies affected by the wave of neo -illiberal populism (Tucker 2020), nativism, cultural backlash (Norris -Inglehart 2019) and in some cases even democratic backsliding and de -democratisation (Ágh 2019;Cianetti -Dawson -Hanley 2019). The liberal political and media mainstream, as well as the scholars in social sciences, reflect the disinformation as a serious hybrid threat based on some partial events, but also based on the continuous development of the disinformation strategies.…”

Section: The Czech Security Eco -System and The Struggle Against The ...mentioning

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Struggle against Disinformation in the Czech Republic: Treading the Water

Cabada

2023

Politics in Central Europe

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In the last decade, the Czech Republic’s foreign and security policy were destabilised with the activities of external actors, with Russia in the leading role, and also internal actors who followed the Russian and pro-Kremlin propaganda and disinformation campaigns and/or actively participated in such subversive activities. After 2015, within the set of crises and their securitisation, the disinformation network in Czechia was developed using the social media and the so-called alternative online media for the dissemination of disinformation, misinformation, fake news and chain mails including and disseminating these campaigns. As far as the leading persons in the executive belonged to the disinformers, the government did not develop working strategies against the disinformation campaigns as the new hybrid threat until 2021. At the end of 2021, the new government of Prime Minister Petr Fiala commenced in the Czech Republic with a new strategy regarding the hybrid threats, including disinformation. The one-year plan to establish the systemic platform for the struggle against such threats was challenged with the Russian aggression against Ukraine. The surprisingly strong response to disinformation campaigns after February 24, 2022, suggested a more systematic approach by the government against fake news and incitement to hatred. A year and a half on, however, we are seeing a stalling in place.

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Section: The Czech Security Eco -System and The Struggle Against The ...mentioning

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Struggle against Disinformation in the Czech Republic: Treading the Water

Cabada

2023

Politics in Central Europe

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“…As Rensmann (2012: 77) noted, the new cleavages are structured in three juxtapositions: 1) support of post -national political institutions (for example, EU) vs. opposition to post -national political institutions (for example, EU); 2) free (global) market allocation vs. economic redistribution or protectionism; 3) liberal -cosmopolitan values and recognition of cultural diversity (secularism) vs. authoritarian conformism, social cohesion and cultural homogeneity (including clericalism). Klikauer (2020: 3-4) labels the opposition against the liberal -democratic principles the conservative reactionary politics and culture war; Tucker (2020) uses the term 'neo -illiberalism'; Norris and Inglehart (2019), analysing events such as Brexit, the electoral success and performance of Donald Trump and the rise of Orbán -like politicians, use the term 'cultural backlash'. As Leggewie (2020: 49) demonstrates, focusing specifically on the East German case, the 'people in countries of the former Eastern Bloc have become more estranged from the EU, and this sentiment exists in East Germany too, more strongly than in the west of the country.…”

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Ostalgy in Flux? Transformations of the concept reflected in the case of (East) Germany

Körfer

2023

Politics in Central Europe

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The contribution focuses on the origin, genesis and transformation of (n)ostalgy in the new German Bundesländer. It focuses on the political-ideological, life biography, societal and economic frame of ostalgy and presents this phaenomenon as a general East-Central European feature. Later, it specifically analyses the East German case presenting and analysing the uniqueness of this case. The intra-German discourse is used as the main shape for such analysis, and the bipolarisation of the discourse and the stereotypes used. In the last analytical part we present the transmission of ostalgic supporters of the successor Party of Democratic Socialism towards the new radical party Alternative for Germany, showing the overlap of ostalgy as the socio-economic and ideo-political background with the new forms of anti-liberal and nativist stances.

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Aviezer Tucker: Democracy against Liberalism: Its Rise and Fall. (Cambridge: Polity, 2020. Pp. 211.)

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Struggle against Disinformation in the Czech Republic: Treading the Water

Struggle against Disinformation in the Czech Republic: Treading the Water

Ostalgy in Flux? Transformations of the concept reflected in the case of (East) Germany

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