Jaroslaw Kuisz

The new politics of Poland (eBook, ePUB)

A case of post-traumatic sovereignty

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The election of populist far-right party Law and Justice in 2015 marked a shocking break in Polish politics. A period of stability was brutally interrupted as Jaroslaw Kaczynski and his allies took over public media and launched a controversial 'reform' of the judiciary.

How was this illiberal turn possible after years of democratic development? Jaroslaw Kuisz, one of Poland's leading liberal thinkers, digs deep into Polish history to propose an original analysis of the crisis. He reveals how centuries of statelessness have left Poles with a 'post-traumatic' attitude to sovereignty, making them wary of powerful foreign blocks, be it the EU, the Soviet Union or present-day Russia. This is a phenomenon populists have proved adept at exploiting.

Providing a brilliant account of Europe's largest illiberal democracy, The new politics of Poland shines a light on the broader situation in East and Central Europe, offering valuable lessons for other countries experiencing the rise of populist right-wing movements.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: United Methodist Publishing House
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526155863
• Artikelnr.: 69585047

Autorenporträt

Jaroslaw Kuisz is a writer and political analyst. He is the editor-in-chief of Kultura Liberalna, Poland's leading online political and cultural weekly, the author of several books in Polish and the co-editor of The End of The Liberal Mind (2020), on Poland's politics after 2015. His work has been published in The Journal of Democracy, The Guardian, The New York Times, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Gazeta Wyborcza and Le Monde. He studied law and philosophy at the University of Warsaw and Sciences Po in Paris.