Central European Papers, 2016 (roč. 4), číslo 1

Prologue to the first issue of the fourth volume of Central European Papers (C.E.P.)

Editors

Central European Papers 2016, 4(1):5  

Questions of Organisation, Portraits and Everyday Life in Vienna, 1814-1815. La Garde-Chambonas about the Congress of Vienna

prof. István MAJOROS

Central European Papers 2016, 4(1):8-19 | DOI: 10.25142/cep.2016.002  

This study presents an interesting memoir about the Congress of Vienna. La Garde-Chambonas, a French aristocrat, went to Vienna in 1814 to participate in the life of the city during the Congress. This book is a very good source for getting acquainted with the life of the European aristocracy in the capital of the Habsburg Monarchy. The author of the memoir presents a lot of personalities, rulers as Alexander I of Russia, Isabey, the famous painter and others. But first of all he writes about Prince of Ligne, his patron in Vienna. Before the presentation of the life in Vienna, the study deals with some questions of organisation regarding the Congress.

State Language Policies and Language Behaviour of the Czechs in the 20th Century

prof. Bořivoj HNÍZDO

Central European Papers 2016, 4(1):20-31 | DOI: 10.25142/cep.2016.003  

The article concentrates on state language policies and language behaviour of the Czech people in the 20th Century, particularly within the period of 1939-1989. In this period, we can speak about a restrictive, non-liberal state language policy, which was distinctively different in comparison to a previous historical period and a period which came later. The article tries to show that these policies are only partly successful, because equally important is a concrete language behaviour of the society. Reactions of Czech people to a restrictive language policy in 1939-1945 and 1948-1989 had some common aspects; mostly from political reasons a rejection...

Plural Voting and Representation of Minorities in Central Europe

Ágnes BALÁZS

Central European Papers 2016, 4(1):32-49 | DOI: 10.25142/cep.2016.004  

In this paper the relationship between parliamentary representation of nationalities and plural voting in Europe will be examined. First of all, it will be overviewed which European countries applied plural voting before 1945. Then the Hungarian legal scientists' judgement of multiple voting before 1945 will be described and we ascertain when the Hungarian decision-makers intended to enact plural voting and how is it connected to minority issues. The Venice Commission's opinion on the topic will also be detailed according to which plural voting is admissible only if it is in relation with representation of minorities and for the benefit of them. After...

The Influence of Ethnic Power Sharing Mechanisms on the Functioning of Parliaments in the Western Balkans

Zsolt SZABÓ

Central European Papers 2016, 4(1):50-62 | DOI: 10.25142/cep.2016.005  

The Western Balkans countries, yet differ in religious and ethnic background, their present-day constitutional setup - at least on paper - has plenty of similarities. Each of them has a parliamentary form of government, a proportional voting system, and a rather ceremonial head of state. Most of these countries have also a predominantly complex ethnic landscape. After the armed ethnic conflicts of the 1990s and 2000s, the region set out along constitutional consolidation. As a price of the peace, various ethnic-based power-sharing methods were introduced in the constitutional systems of the countries. However, this paper argues that any political regime...

Changes of American Foreign Policy towards the Countries of the Former Yugoslavia between 1991 and 1995

Lukáš VOMLELA

Central European Papers 2016, 4(1):63-81 | DOI: 10.25142/cep.2016.006  

Article deals with the changes of the foreign policy of the United States of America after the end of the Cold War towards disintegrating Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Article tries to explain the main reasons which influenced the process of disintegration of Yugoslavia and led to the war between 1991 and 1995. The main attention is paid to the main reasons of changes of the U.S. role and involvement in the conflict. It also evaluates the main goals and strategies of Serbs, Croats and Bosniaks. The last part deals with the negotiations in Dayton in 1995, which ended one of the most important conflicts after 1945 and it evaluates the significance...

The Past and Future of the European Union Internal Market - Visegrad Group Perspective

Silvia RUČINSKÁ, Miroslav FEČKO

Central European Papers 2016, 4(1):82-94 | DOI: 10.25142/cep.2016.007  

This article points out the role of Visegrad Group countries in the process of European Union Internal Market completion. European Union Internal Market isn't even thirty years after the Single European Act completed and needs to be understood as an ongoing process without a possible finish. The future of continuing European Union Internal Market completion is considerably influenced by current developments within the European Union. Protectionist tendencies of national states, the voting of Great Britain to leave the European Union, migration, security issues are testing the solidarity and consistency of the European Union and of its Internal Market....

József DEMMEL (ed.), A szlovák nemzet születése. Ľudovít Štúr és szlovák társadalom a 19. századi Magyarországon [Birth of the Slovakian Nation. Ľudovít Štúr and the Slovakian Society in Hungary in the 19th Century]
József DEMMEL, Ľudovít Štúr: A szlávok és a jövő világa. Szerk. Ford.: F. Kováts Piroska, Földes Zsuzsanna, Görözdi Judit, Németh Ádám, Tóth Gergely. Utószó: Rudolf Chmel. [Ľudovít Štúr: The Slavonians and the World of Future. Ed.: Jozsef Demmel. Translated by: Piroska F. Kováts, Zsuzsanna Földes, Judit Görözdi, Ádám Németh, Gergely Tóth. Prologue: Rudolf Chmel]

Csaba KATONA

Central European Papers 2016, 4(1):97-99  

József DEMMEL (ed.)A szlovák nemzet születése. Ľudovít Štúr és szlovák társadalom a 19. századi Magyarországon[Birth of the Slovakian Nation. Ľudovít Štúr and the Slovakian Society in Hungary in the 19th Century]Bratislava: Kalligram 2011, 374 pages.ISBN 978-80-8101-490-1József DEMMELĽudovít Štúr: A szlávok és a jövő világa. Szerk. Ford.: F. Kováts Piroska, Földes Zsuzsanna, Görözdi Judit, Németh Ádám, Tóth Gergely. Utószó: Rudolf Chmel.[Ľudovít Štúr: The Slavonians and the World of Future. Ed.: Jozsef Demmel. Translated by: Piroska F. Kováts, Zsuzsanna Földes, Judit Görözdi, Ádám Németh, Gergely Tóth. Prologue: Rudolf...

József DEMMEL (ed.), Az ismeretlen Ľudovít Štúr. Magyar tanulmányok a legnagyobb szlovákról [The Unknown Ľudovít Štúr. Hungarian Studies about the Greatest Slovakian Man]

Zoltán Oszkár SZŐTS

Central European Papers 2016, 4(1):100-101  

Békéscsaba: Magyarországi Szlovákok Kutatóintézete 2016, 104 pages, Kor/ridor Books 6.).ISBN 978-615-5615-22-1