MILAN ŠIMEČKA. INTERVIEW WITH DAGMAR KUSÁ
Dirk Dalberg
Studia Politica Slovaca, 2025, vol. 18, no. 2, p. 56-65
Language: Slovak
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31577/SPS.2025-2.4
Abstract
Dagmar Kusá received her MA in political science from Comenius University and her PhD. in political science from Boston University. Currently working at Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts (BISLA), she focuses on the quality of democracy in countries transitioning from totalitarian or authoritarian regimes and its relation to the institutional choices of addressing the past, particularly in the context of South African and Central European transitions. Besides, she also serves as the country expert on citizenship at the European Democratic Observatory (at the EUI) and co-organizes the annual Muslim-Jewish Conference. She is the Vice President of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Slovakia. Dagmar Kusá is the daughter of Miroslav Kusý, one of Slovakia’s most essential dissidents. He was a close friend of Milan Šimečka. For this reason, the conversation also has a reminiscent character in certain places
Keywords
Milan Šimečka, dissent, intellectuals, normalization, Czechoslovakia, Slovakia, Europe, democracy, liberalism
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