Who Gets to Claim History?
In a divided Poland, the trajectory of liberal democracy over the past 30 years is seen as a success by the liberal left. The ruling national conservatives have a very different narrative.
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+++ We are now living in a world of frenemies, and Berlin is caught in the headlights, argues Jörg Lau; in an interview, US Republican senator Tom Cotton warns of Chinese and Russian attempts to split the West; Daniela Schwarzer explains that Germany and Europe need to learn the rules of geo-economics; Anja Vladisavjevic profiles Andrej Plenković, Croatia’s prime minister; Noah Gordon, in his Carbon Critical column, dissects the four camps in the new climate debate; Sebastian Heilmann warns against the Chinese conception of humanity; Michael Rühle says that academics need to up their game (“Ground Control to Ivory Tower”); and much more +++