Current Fellows' research
- The Cybernetic State: How States Use Digital Technology to GovernJames Rosenberg’s research investigates how the use of digital technology as a tool of statecraft shapes relations among states, markets, and citizens.
- Platform(ing) Illiberalism? Online Influencers, Digital Platforms, and the Illiberal Public Sphere in Central and Eastern EuropeDonald Trump’s victory in the November 2024 US presidential election has sparked fears that illiberal and authoritarian actors around the world will be further emboldened as a result, including in Central and Eastern Europe—a region which has been grappling with the rise of far-right
- Europe as an (Impossible) Task: Thinking Emancipation in Relation to Václav HavelThe goal of this project is to produce a manuscript on the politics of emancipation and the ethics of responsibility in the works of Václav Havel.
- Global Relations over the Next DecadeJames C. O’Brien will ask what kind of possibilities for international cooperation will emerge after the current period of instability. It is clear that there will be no restoration of the old “normal” (which never was normal).
- Karl Löwith: Nietzsches Philosophie der ewigen Wiederkunft des Gleichen [Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Eternal Recurrence of the Same] (GER > RUM)Karl Löwith’s exceptional work Nietzsches Philosophie der ewigen Wiederkunft des Gleichen (1935) aptly combines the hermeneutics of nihilism with existential phenomenology/ontology.
- Vasily Grossman: Писатель на войне [A Writer at War] (RUS > CRO)This project aims to produce a Croatian translation of A Writer at War by Vasily Grossman, a seminal collection of his frontline dispatches from World War II.
News
- Notes From the 2025 Autumn Fellows' ConferenceOn 12 November, the IWM hosted the autumn edition of its biannual Fellows' Conference, organized by visiting fellows Halyna Herasym and Anna Derzhypilska. A cornerstone of intellectual life at the Institute since its…
- Can We Resist the AI Empire, Karen Hao?So many of us seem to be scrambling to understand where the world is heading. Decade-old certainties seem to crumble before our eyes. Perhaps we are reaching the moment that Karl Marx predicted when all that is solid…
- Geopolitical Talk with Andrew Small: Deciphering the Triangle - US Disorder, Chinese Ambition, and European AgencyWe are delighted to announce the next edition of our Geopolitical Talks event series. On 25 November, IWM Permanent Fellow Ivan Krastev is joined by Andrew Small, incoming Asia director at the European Council on…
Upcoming events
- Conferences and Workshops
- Fellows' Colloquium with Sanja M. BojanićSeminars and Colloquia
- Geopolitical Talk with Andrew SmallPanels and Discussions
- Film Screening and DiscussionVisual and Performing Arts
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Upcoming events
- Conferences and Workshops
- Fellows' Colloquium with Sanja M. BojanićSeminars and Colloquia
- Geopolitical Talk with Andrew SmallPanels and Discussions
- Film Screening and DiscussionVisual and Performing Arts
News
- Notes From the 2025 Autumn Fellows' ConferenceOn 12 November, the IWM hosted the autumn edition of its biannual Fellows' Conference, organized by visiting fellows Halyna Herasym and Anna Derzhypilska. A cornerstone of intellectual life at the Institute since its…
- Can We Resist the AI Empire, Karen Hao?So many of us seem to be scrambling to understand where the world is heading. Decade-old certainties seem to crumble before our eyes. Perhaps we are reaching the moment that Karl Marx predicted when all that is solid…
- Geopolitical Talk with Andrew Small: Deciphering the Triangle - US Disorder, Chinese Ambition, and European AgencyWe are delighted to announce the next edition of our Geopolitical Talks event series. On 25 November, IWM Permanent Fellow Ivan Krastev is joined by Andrew Small, incoming Asia director at the European Council on…
Current Fellows' research
- Homo Academicus – Homo Politicus: An Academical-Political Biography of Philip E. MoselyPhilip Edward Mosely (1905-1972) has been remembered as the “the Cold War’s organization man.” The world’s leading Sovietologist, he was at the center of shaping what came to be known as Russian and East European studies.
- The Cybernetic State: How States Use Digital Technology to GovernJames Rosenberg’s research investigates how the use of digital technology as a tool of statecraft shapes relations among states, markets, and citizens.
- The Idea of Moral SocialismWhat Is Moral Socialism?
- The Relevance of Karl Mannheim in an Age of Generalized SuspicionThe Hungarian sociologist Karl Mannheim conceived the critique of ideology as a process of “unmasking” which reveals the close relationship between every thought and a given socio-historical condition: ideas reflect certain “social situations” among different classes and s
- The Fifth EstateThe Fifth Estate is a book about the sociology of knowledge: what people believe, how they have come to believe it, and the powerful interests which have may have gotten them there.
- Reassessing the Foundations of Liberal DemocracyLiberal democracy is based on a number of foundational assumptions. Among these are ideas such as that of the public good; the existence of a shared public sphere; the ability of citizens to get reliable information about politics; and so on.
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