• FOREWORD

  Radek Špicar

• EDITORIAL: Central Europe Re-Enters history

  Aleksander Kaczorowski

Cover Story

• The Shock of Ukraine

  Sir Robert Francis Cooper

• Why Enlargement Brakes?

  Marek Cichocki

• We Live in a World of Ailing Powers

  Maciej Nowicki

• What Does the Russian Elite Really Believe in?

  Peter Pomerantsev

• Europe: the Return of Politics

  Luuk van Middelaar

• Decisions and Consequences

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The Interview

• Ukraine Can Be a Neutral State

  Filip Memches

• Exit Politics

  Ivan Krastev

Politics

• A Plan for NATO: Central Europe Indistinguishable from Western Europe

  Grzegorz Kostrzewa-Zorbas

• Russian Minority in Estonia after Crimea

  Martin Ehala

• Post-Soviet Central Asia: The Changing Politics Of Leadership Transition

  Luca Anceschi

• Europe and the Problem of Force

  Wojciech Przybylski

• Right in Ascendance or Mainstream in Decline?

  Frank Furedi

• A Heavy Hangover after the 2014 EP Elections

  Leonidas Donskis

Economy

• Czech Foreign Trade in Healthy Condition

  Jan Bureš

• Eurasian Integration: Putin’s Futureless Project

  Anton Barbashin

• The Social Role of Business in Central Europe

  Katharina Bluhm

• Africa Wrapped in —Genetically Modified—Cotton

  Tomáš Nídr

• A Question of Trust: Why Europe Misses a Shale Energy Revolution

  Aviezer Tucker

Culture

• Another Code of Nabokov

  Leszek Engelking

• Two Recapitulations and One Stocktaking

  Václav Burian

• A Broken Trail

  Wojciech Stanislawski

• Hašek in Galicia

  Aleksander Kaczorowski