|
Civilisations, Barbarity, Conquest, Legitimacy and Crimes of War
|
|
Lecture
|
John DunnMisha Glenny
|
Series: Lecture
The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February of this year has cast a glaring new light on a very old but ever more urgent question. In his lecture John Dunn asked, if there are any terms on which the human population of the world could still hope to live with one another in peace and personal freedom into a future of many generations? Could we still create together a modus vivendi of real duration? We know now, as we did not yet know in the year 1940, in which John Dunn was born, that any future generational horizon is in ever starker jeopardy because of the colossal and ever less controllable harm we are inflicting as a species on our global habitat. We know, as we could have known in much of Europe for at least three centuries, that the world was then, as it mercilessly remains, a vast distance from realising those terms and that it could not in principle realise them at all rapidly. We still have only a tiny repertoire of forms through which to try to act collectively on any scale: international agencies, civilisations, states, peoples (or, if you prefer, nations) – each of doubtful efficacy and eminently questionable legitimacy. Which of these forms could still take how much of the strain and how and why could war still feature as anything but grounds for despair within that ever more desperate struggle? We have never had any clear idea of how the world could be made a just world for its human inhabitants. Do we still have any rational horizon for collective hope over time?
Read more
|
Series: Lecture
The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February of this year has cast a glaring new light on a very old but ever more urgent question. In his lecture John Dunn asked, if there are any terms on which the human population of the world could still hope to live with one another in peace and personal freedom into a future of many generations? Could we still create together a modus vivendi of real duration? We know now, as we did not yet know in the year 1940, in which John Dunn was born, that any future generational horizon is in ever starker jeopardy because of the colossal and ever less controllable harm we are inflicting as a species on our global habitat. We know, as we could have known in much of Europe for at least three centuries, that the world was then, as it mercilessly remains, a vast distance from realising those terms and that it could not in principle realise them at all rapidly. We still have only a tiny repertoire of forms through which to try to act collectively on any scale: international agencies, civilisations, states, peoples (or, if you prefer, nations) – each of doubtful efficacy and eminently questionable legitimacy. Which of these forms could still take how much of the strain and how and why could war still feature as anything but grounds for despair within that ever more desperate struggle? We have never had any clear idea of how the world could be made a just world for its human inhabitants. Do we still have any rational horizon for collective hope over time?
Read more
|
|
Civil Society and its Enemies
|
-
|
Conferences and Workshops
|
|
-
Speakers:
Series: Conferences and Workshops
|
-
Speakers:
Series: Conferences and Workshops
|
|
Citizens of Nowhere
|
|
Panels and Discussions
|
Ivan VejvodaNiccolo MilaneseUlrike Lunacek
|
Series: Panels and Discussions
|
Series: Panels and Discussions
|
|
Cities and Human Mobility Research Collaborative Vienna Research Symposium
|
-
|
Conferences and Workshops
|
Achilles KallergisAyşe ÇağlarColleen Thouez, Alex Aleinikoff, Liav Orgad, Lucy Earle, Gianluca Gatta
|
-
Series: Conferences and Workshops
|
-
Series: Conferences and Workshops
|
|
Christ the Savior – Orthodoxy’s Ground Zero
|
|
Seminars and Colloquia
|
Lucy AshMisha Glenny
|
Series: Seminars and Colloquia
|
Series: Seminars and Colloquia
|
|
Changing Politics and Geopolitics
|
|
Panels and Discussions
|
Robert Sawers
|
Speakers: Robert Sawers
Series: Panels and Discussions
|
Speakers: Robert Sawers
Series: Panels and Discussions
|
|
Challenges to Democracy
|
-
|
Conferences and Workshops
|
Claus OffeKrzysztof MichalskiMarcin KrólMichael J. SandelJohn Gray, Ulrich K. Preuß, Jacques Rupnik, Aleksander Smolar
|
-
Series: Conferences and Workshops
|
-
Series: Conferences and Workshops
|
|
Capitalism, Alone
|
|
Panels and Discussions
|
Ivan KrastevShalini RanderiaBranko Milanovic
|
Series: Panels and Discussions
|
Series: Panels and Discussions
|
|
Capitalism on Edge
|
|
Lecture
|
Albena AzmanovaLudger HagedornWolfgang Merkel
|
Series: Lecture
|
Series: Lecture
|
|
Can Machines Save the World?
|
-
|
Conferences and Workshops
|
Allison StangerEdward LeeGeorge MetakidesHannes WerthnerHelga NowotnyLudger HagedornAnita Eichinger, Erich Prem, Ivona Brandic, Felix Creutzig, Stavros Makris, Cristiano Codagnone, Thomas Bugnyar, Thomas Haigh, Joseph Sifakis, Julia Neidhardt, Gerti Kappel, Christoph Thun-Hohenstein, Michael Wiesmüller, Stefan Woltran
|
-
Speakers: Allison StangerEdward LeeGeorge MetakidesHannes WerthnerHelga NowotnyLudger HagedornAnita Eichinger, Erich Prem, Ivona Brandic, Felix Creutzig, Stavros Makris, Cristiano Codagnone, Thomas Bugnyar, Thomas Haigh, Joseph Sifakis, Julia Neidhardt, Gerti Kappel, Christoph Thun-Hohenstein, Michael Wiesmüller, Stefan Woltran
Series: Conferences and Workshops
|
-
Speakers: Allison StangerEdward LeeGeorge MetakidesHannes WerthnerHelga NowotnyLudger HagedornAnita Eichinger, Erich Prem, Ivona Brandic, Felix Creutzig, Stavros Makris, Cristiano Codagnone, Thomas Bugnyar, Thomas Haigh, Joseph Sifakis, Julia Neidhardt, Gerti Kappel, Christoph Thun-Hohenstein, Michael Wiesmüller, Stefan Woltran
Series: Conferences and Workshops
|