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Radio 3,13 Feb 2018,45 mins

Michael Ignatieff and Central Europe

Free Thinking

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Michael Ignatieff, President of Central European University in Budapest; Wojciech Przybylski, Editor in Chief of Visegrad Insight Magazine; and political historian Guido Franzinetti look at the changing political landscape of central Europe with presenter Philip Dodd. Wojciech Przybylski has written a book called Understanding Central Europe. Michael Ignatieff's books include The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror (2004), Fire and Ashes: Success and Failure in Politics (2013) and The Ordinary Virtues: Moral Order in a Divided World Guido Franzinetti teaches Political Science at the University of Eastern Piedmont. He's carried out research and worked in Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Albania and Kosovo. Producer: Robyn Read.

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