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Religion in the Public Sphere

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The New Politics of Climate Change
The Copenhagen meeting ended with few tangible achievements nor any clear plan for future diplomacy on global warming. These troubles are fundamental to the strategy of broad UN-based talks that aim, as in Copenhagen, for universal agreement on binding treaties. A new approach is needed. In his recent lecture, held in the IWM series on climate politics, David G. Victor (University of California) shows that other approaches focused on smaller groups of countries and more flexible legal instruments would be much more effective. He also shows that even in the best scenario the world is likely to experience substantial changes in climate, requiring nations to make massive investments to adapt to new climate conditions.
Vergessen, Verdrängen, Verdrehen
Ohne Erinnerung keine Identität. Soziale Bewegungen, Organisationen, Nationen oder suprastaatliche Einheiten wie die Europäische Union – sie alle greifen auf historische Narrative, Gründungsmythen und zentrale Ereignisse der Vergangenheit zurück, um zu charakterisieren, wer sie sind und wie sie sich selbst sehen. Doch auch umgekehrt gilt: Identitäten färben die Erinnerung. Gemeinschaften sind stets „erfundene“ Gemeinschaften, die in ihren Identitätskonstruktionen selektiv und pragmatisch auf die Geschichte zugreifen. Vergangene Geschehnisse werden vergessen, verdrängt, verdreht. Der soeben in der Reihe Junior Visiting Fellows' Conferences erschienene Band „Perspectives on Memory and Identity“ geht diesem Wechselspiel von Identitätsbildung und Erinnerungspolitik anhand bekannter wie auch wenig bekannter Fallbeispiele nach. Die Verdrängung der kommunistischen Vergangenheit in Rumänien, das Schweigen über die Opfer der maoistischen Politik im heutigen China, und das Einrichten in einer Vergangenheitsbewältigung, die niemandem weh tut, im österreichischen „Gedankenjahr“ 2005 sind ebenso Thema, wie das Selbstbild der EU als rationale, wie langweilige Bürokratie. Der neue Band der Juniors Reihe stellt die Forschungsarbeiten von Katrin Hammerstein, Asim Jusic, Andreea Maierean, Paulina Napierala, Avraham Rot und Ewa Rzanna vor, die im vergangenen Winter am IWM zu Gast waren. Alle Beiträge, sowie die vorangehenden Bände, finden sich hier zum Nachlesen.
Eastern Europe in Focus
“The IWM is a place where people and ideas meet like in very few other places in the world,” says Bulgarian political scientist Ivan Krastev – and he is one to know. Krastev has been affiliated with the Institute for many years as Visiting Fellow, as a lecturer, a participant in several panel discussions and conferences as well as an author for the journals Transit and IWMpost. From now on you will meet Ivan Krastev and come into contact with his ideas regularly at the IWM as we are pleased to announce that he has recently been appointed a Permanent Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences. In his research, he will continue to concentrate on Eastern European politics and Europe’s strategic role in a multi-polar world thus strengthening the Institute’s longstanding work on contemporary European society. Prior to entering the IWM’s academic community, he has been awarded fellowships at several prestigious European and American research institutions such as the Open Society Institute, Budapest, the Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin and the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, Washington D.C. Currently he is director of the Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia and board member of the European Council on Foreign Relations, one of Europe’s most influential independent think tanks. He contributes frequently to leading European and American newspapers and is the editor-in-chief of the Bulgarian edition of Foreign Policy. We are honored that this excellent scholar will provide his input more frequently within the exchange of ideas at the IWM.
New Milena Journalists
The Milena Jesenská Fellowship program offers journalists working in print, broadcast and electronic media the opportunity to take time off from their professional duties in order to pursue in-depth research on a European topic of their choice. The IWM is pleased to announce the finalists of the 2010/2011 call for applications: Irina Nedeva, editor at the Bulgarian national radio, is going to work on the dilemmas of the country's intellectual elite, Vladimir Arsenijevic, columnist of the Croatian weekly Novosti, will be looking at “The Ever-Changing Face of Europe”, the Hungarian journalist Zsuzsa Balazs, will be following the actions of cultural "guerilla" movements which are trying to regain public places in Europe’s cities and finally Slawomir Sierakowski, who is editor-in-chief of the Polish monthly magazine Krytyka Polityczna, is going to show how the “New Europe” is shifting from "antipolitics" to "postpolitics". Members of the jury of the Milena Jesenská program are experienced journalists and editors from Europe and the United States, currently Anne Applebaum, The Washington Post, Michael Naumann, Cicero Magazine, Gerfried Sperl, Der Standard, as well as Ivan Krastev, Permanent Fellow at the IWM and Knut Neumayer, Program Director Europe of the Erste Foundation, which generously supports the Fellowships.
Was jetzt?
Kopenhagen ist zu einem Symbol für das Scheitern internationaler Vereinbarungen zum Klimaschutz geworden. Der Weltklimagipfel, der vergangenen Dezember in der dänischen Hauptstadt 192 Nationen versammelte, um die globalen CO2 Emissionen radikal zu reduzieren, endete mit einer unverbindlichen Erklärung statt mit dem erhofften Nachfolgeabkommen zum 2012 auslaufenden Kyoto-Protokoll. Ein Mega-Gipfel mit Mini-Ergebnis. David G. Victor, Klima- und Energieexperte an der University of California in San Diego, war einer jener Wissenschaftler, die „Floppenhagen“ vorausgesehen haben. Denn: Je mehr Länder einer Einigung zustimmen sollen, desto geringer ist die Wahrscheinlichkeit, zu einem Ergebnis zu kommen. In seinem Vortrag „The New Politics of Climate Change: What Next After Copenhagen?“ am 24. Juni am IWM schlug er daher bilaterale Verhandlungen zwischen einzelnen Ländern oder einer kleinen Gruppe einflußreicher Staaten vor. Solche innovativen Kerngruppen kämen weitaus schneller zu Vereinbarungen zum Klimaschutz als die Weltgemeinschaft mit ihrer Pluralität an Einzelinteressen. Zumindest dies lasse sich aus dem Scheitern von Kopenhagen lernen.
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