Von Ben Gardner-Gill

This paper examines a 2012 speech by then-Prime Minister of the Czech Republic Petr Nečas, also a member of the ODS. The speech, entitled “10 Theses from the Prime Minister on the Future Shape of Europe,” hereafter “10 Theses,” serves as a prominent, contemporary encapsulation of the state of Czech Euroscepticism in the ODS 23 years after the fall of communist Czechoslovakia. This paper examines the speech in the context of those 23 years, focusing on primary source analysis of speeches and political documents, particularly those of Václav Klaus as the intellectual leader of the ODS. The “10 Theses” speech is emblematic of a long-term progression within the ODS, and of Petr Nečas’s own views towards a particular Euroscepticism that reflects Czech Republic’s own ambivalent Europeanization. [weiterlesen...]

Von Jan Carsten Schnurr

Am 16. Juli 1974 stand der amerikanische Baptisten-Pastor und Evangelist Billy Graham (1918–2018) vor knapp zweieinhalbtausend Delegierten und über tausend weiteren Zuhörerinnen und Zuhörern aus 150 Ländern und hielt die am aufwändigsten vorbereitete Rede seines Lebens. Es handelte sich um den Eröffnungsvortrag des Internationalen Kongresses für Weltevangelisation im schweizerischen Lausanne. „Why Lausanne?“ hieß Grahams Vortrag. [weiterlesen...]