{"id":8950,"date":"2016-06-28T14:33:49","date_gmt":"2016-06-28T19:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/?p=8950"},"modified":"2017-11-10T14:35:06","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T19:35:06","slug":"eu-views-igor-lukes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/2016\/06\/28\/eu-views-igor-lukes\/","title":{"rendered":"EU-Views: Igor Lukes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Name:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/history\/faculty\/igor-lukes\/\">Igor Lukes<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Nationality:<\/strong> Czech<br \/>\n<strong>Occupation(s):<\/strong> Boston University Professor of History, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies Professor of International Relations; Honorary Consul General of the Czech Republic in New England<br \/>\n<strong>Connection to Europe:<\/strong> European citizen; Expertise in Central European history, East European politics, contemporary Russia; Specializes in the interwar period, the Cold War, and contemporary developments in East Central Europe and Russia <\/p>\n<p><em>Date of Interview: April 22, 2016<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/283487423&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;visual=true\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<em><a href=\"\/eufutures\/files\/2017\/09\/Lukes-Transcript.pdf\">Lukes Transcript<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>In this episode, Toria Rainy talks to Igor Lukes, Professor of International Relations and History at Boston University about the &#8220;civilizing role&#8221; of the European Union on the European continent, the politics of hate behind some critiques of the EU&#8217;s so-called &#8220;democratic deficit,&#8221; and the lingering threat to Europe&#8217;s future posed by Russia. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Name: Igor Lukes Nationality: Czech Occupation(s): Boston University Professor of History, Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies Professor of International Relations; Honorary Consul General of the Czech Republic in New England Connection to Europe: European citizen; Expertise in Central European history, East European politics, contemporary Russia; Specializes in the interwar period, the Cold War, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14061,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8950"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14061"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8951,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8950\/revisions\/8951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/european\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}