Vychází nové číslo časopisu Czech Journal of International Relations (60:3)

Dear readers,

The new issue of the Czech Journal of International Relations (60:3) has just been published. It includes three research articles, a Book Forum discussing Quinn Slobodian’s seminal book Hayek’s Bastards, and two book reviews.

The three full-length research articles were written by Simona Fojtová (Transylvania University), Patrice McMahon and Hana Waisserová (both University of Nebraska-Lincoln); H. Ricard Nakamura (University of Gothenburg) and Patrik Ström (Stockholm School of Economics), and Ondřej Císař, Marta Kolářová (both Charles University) with Tomáš Profant (Bratislava University of Economics and Business). The first article titled From Grassroots Humanitarianism to Mutual Aid: Citizen Responses in Poland and the Czech Republic to Russia’s War in Ukraine, by Fojtová, McMahon and Waisserová, explores grassroots citizens’ aid in Poland and the Czech Republic towards Ukrainians since the start of the Russian invasion, arguing that in both countries, private individuals and small volunteer-run groups organized creative grassroots initiatives that went beyond providing immediate material assistance. The second article by Nakamura and Ström, titled How Geoeconomics Advances Geopolitical Cooperation: The Case of EU-Japan Relations, shows how political cooperation fostered economic interdependence on the Japan-EU case study. Lastly, Císař, Kolářová and Profant in their piece More Than Skepticism: Climate Change Discourses through an Economic Perspective in Czech Newspapers survey Czech newspapers’ coverage of climate change to show that this discourse is neither dominated by skepticism nor polarized along the axis of climate denial versus climate alarmism.

The three articles are followed by a Book Forum discussing Quinn Slobodian’s groundbreaking book Hayek's Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right, which examines the relationship between neoliberalism and the contemporary far right. Slobodian challenges the dominant view that right-wing populism represents a bottom-up revolt of globalization’s “losers” and instead argues that today’s far right emerged from within neoliberal thought itself. The forum, co-authored by Slobodian (Boston University) with Valentina Ausserladscheider (University of Vienna), Béla Greskovits (Central European University) and Daniel Šitera (Prague University of Economics and Business), discuss both the book’s key insights and its limitations.

Lastly, you can find two book reviews in the issue, by I. Rapoš Božič and Alfred Marleku, analyzing recent publications by IIR members Jan Kovář and Jan Eichler.

Dear readers, we hope you will find the issue intellectually stimulating.

Pleasant read,

Michal Kolmaš,

CJIR Editor-in-chief