Democracy and Its Discontents

18th Forum 2000 Conference

Video Recordings


Accompanying Events

Havel Forever
Prague, Wenceslas Square
Happening in support of the prisoners of conscience Ahmed Maher, Leopoldo López, and Liu Xiaobo

Forum 2000 Opening Ceremony
Jakub Klepal, Ivan M. Havel, Jürgen Hoffmeister, Michail Chodorkovskij, Igor Blaževič

Gala Dinner with Lilian Tintori
Lilian Tintori, Jakub Klepal

Democracy and Its Discontents

Democracy and Its Discontents
Jacques Rupnik, Iveta Radičová, Karel Schwarzenberg, Čang Čchien-fan, Ramín Džahánbeglú, Michael Novak

Can a Change in Electoral System Offer a Cure for an Ailing Democracy?
Jacques Rupnik, Karel Janeček, Marc Plattner

Challenges for Democracy in Latin America
Enrique ter Horst, Carl Gershman, Marcel Granier, Antonio Rodiles, Juan Requesens

Democracy in Russia Today
Jan Macháček, Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Imperfect Democracy: Václav Havel's Concerns About the Development of Democracy
Marta Smolíková, Tomáš Vrba, John Shattuck, Michael Žantovský, Jan Macháček

What Next for Democracy

Priorities and Aspirations for Democracy in the 21st Century
Jiří Schneider, José María Aznar, Yogendra Yadav, Mu-žung Süe-cchun, Juan Requesens, Šimon Pánek

Technology and Democracy: Are Horizontal Networks Fostering or Undermining Democratic Governance?
Leonidas Donskis, Nay Phone Latt, Michael Anti, Emin Milli, Vitalij Jaroševskij, Yoani Sánchez

The Future of Kurdistan
Tomáš Pojar, Falah Mustafa Bakir, Sergey Danilochkin

Changing International Environment

Europe and the Democratization of Its Neighborhoods
Jacques Rupnik, Gilles Kepel, Alexandr Vondra, Jerzy Pomianowski, Júsef Amrání, Thomas O. Melia,Mykola Rjabčuk

Is Democracy in Decline? Reflections from the Fall of the Berlin Wall to the Euromaidan
Christopher Walker, Marc Plattner, Alina Mungiu-Pippidi, Tarek Osman, Yoani Sánchez, Jevhen Hlibovitskij

Russia: A Non-Democratic Power on the World Stage?
Petr Kolář, Michail Chodorkovskij, Vytautas Landsbergis, Andrej Zubov, Daniel Baer

The Significance of Václav Havel’s Value Based Foreign Policy
John Shattuck, Lozang Sengge, Carl Gershman, Ales Bjaljacki, Andrew Schapiro, Yoani Sánchez

Transferability of Democracy?

Expansion of the Global Economic Influence of China
Viphandh Roengpithya, Jang Ťien-li, Milos Alcalay, Etienne Smith

Is Democracy Possible in the Post-Soviet Space?
Tomáš Vrba, Chadidža Ismailová, Emin Milli, Oleksandra Dvoretskaya, Igor Kochetkov

Systemic Change, Economic Reforms, and Democracy: What Have We Learned? What Lessons for the Future?
Danilo Türk, Jan Švejnar, Grigorij Javlinskij, Ivan Mikloš, Mauricio Pozo

Ukraine: Perspectives for a Democratic Future in Europe?
Natalia Čuriková, Oleksandra Dvoretskaya, Karel Schwarzenberg, Grigorij Javlinskij, Daniel Baer

3 Years After Arab Spring: Middle East at a Crossroads
Šlomo Avineri, Salám Fajád, Falah Mustafa Bakir, Tarek Osman, Júsef Amrání, Gilles Kepel

Art, Society, Nature and Politics

Art, Society, and Politics: Artists or Activists?
Daniel Herman, Antonio Rodiles, Mu-žung Süe-cchun, Petr Motyčka, Michal Hvorecký

Events Outside Prague

The Czech Way of Democracy: Did We Want It This Way? (in Czech)
Libor Magdoň, Petr Placák, Vladimír Baar