Issue 55 | February 2024

A Special Feature, Europe and NATO Since Ukraine

• Introduction by Carl J. Strikwerda and Ruud van Dijk

Research

• “Security and Stability in Germany’s ‘Zeitenwende'” by William Glenn Gray

• “Personal Life Stories under Stalinism: The Case of Atto Liesi” by Oksana Ermolaeva

Commentary

• “Europe’s Watershed and Ukraine’s Shift From Periphery to Center” by Paul D’Anieri

• “Russia-Europe Relations Before the 2022 Invasion of Ukraine” by Marc Jansen

• “The Impact of the Ukraine War on the Transatlantic Relationship” by Bram Boxhoorn

• “An Assessment of the Impact of the War in Ukraine on the Baltic States” by Jordan T. Kuck

• “’Are You Paying Attention to Us Now?’ Recognizing the Centrality of Central and East European Countries” by Emilian Kavalski

A Roundtable on Serbian Philosopher Radomir Konstantinović: “Parochialism” in Translation

• Introduction by Suzana Vuljevic

• “The Spirit of Parochialism and Imperial Teleophilia” by Branislav Jakovljević

• “The Parochial Spirit in Translation Through the Lens of Radomir Konstantinović” by Matvei Yankelevich

• “The Subject in Palanka: ‘The Philosophy of Parochialism’ and the Work of Immanent Critique” by Djordje Popović

• “‘Our Experience:’ Two Postwar Readings of Radomir Konstantinović’s Philosophy of Parochialism” by Edin Hajdarpašić

Visual Art

• “C-art-ographic Dreamings,” an art series curated by Hélène B. Ducros

Poetry

• To the Letter by Tomasz Różycki, translated from the Polish by Mira Rosenthal

Fiction

• The Ukraine by Artem Chapeye, translated from the Ukrainian by Zenia Tompkins

Nonfiction

• The War Came to Us: Life and Death in Ukraine by Christopher Miller

• The Plural Island by Gesualdo Bufalino, translated from the Italian by Julia Conrad

Interviews

• “Ukraine and the Transformation of Europe: An Interview with Clara Portela” by Carl J. Strikwerda

Book Reviews

• France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Pétain, reviewed by Nathan Bracher

• Holding Their Breath: How the Allies Confronted the Threat of Chemical Warfare in World War II, reviewed by Richard Overy

• The Malleable Body: Surgeons, Artisans, and Amputees in Early Modern Germany, reviewed by Alyssa Culp

• New Energies: A History of Energy Transitions in Europe and North America, reviewed by Nicholas Ostrum

• Eccentric Days of Hope and Sorrow, reviewed by Elizabeth B. Jones

Campus

• “How German Higher Education Institutions Collaborate with Industry: The DAAD’s ‘Germany Today’ Tour” by Amy Bridger, Uta Gaedeke, Thomas O. Haakenson, Christine Menand, Michael A. O’Neill, Frank Peters, Christian Schäfer, and Angela K. Wilson

Campus Round-Up

• “The Englishization of Higher Education” by Hélène B. Ducros

Editor’s Pick

• Border Conditions: Russian-Speaking Latvians Between World Orders by Kevin M. F. Platt

• Germany 1923: Hyperinflation, Hitler’s Putsch and Democracy in Crisis by Volker Ullrich (translated by Jefferson Chase)

Cover image: Ed Fairburn
Cover design: Hélène B. Ducros