Petr Kratochvil, Religion as a Weapon: Invoking Religion in Secularized Societies New article by professor Petr Kratochvíl in The Review […]
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“New wine in old bottles: Explaining the dimensional structure of European party systems”, ROVNY Jan and POLK Jonathan (CEE Sciences Po, France)
ROVNY, Jan et POLK, Jonathan. New wine in old bottles: Explaining the dimensional structure of European party systems. Party Politics. […]
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“Holy Rus challenged: The conflict between Churches in Ukraine has consequences for Russia, Ukraine and the Orthodox world”, Veera Laine (FIIA, Finland)
The initiative to create an autocephalous national Orthodox Church in Ukraine, proposed by the political leadership of the country, now […]
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“Religion’s waning influence in Western Europe”, Andrés Ortega (Elcano, Spain)
In general –despite the fact that several countries in the EU have some form of Christianity as their official state […]
Read morePapal Geopolitics: The World According to Urbi et Orbi, Petr Kratochvíl & Jana Hovorková (IIR, Prague)
“The Catholic Church (or the Church, in this article) is, despite appearances, one of the most influential geopolitical actors in […]
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Spirituality as a political instrument: The Church, the Kremlin, and the creation of the ‘Russian World’, Veera Laine & Iiris Saarelainen (FIIA, Finland)
This Working Paper analyses the way in which the Russian state and the Russian Orthodox Church use the claims related […]
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