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Capitalism on Edge
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Albena AzmanovaLudger HagedornWolfgang Merkel
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The Climate Question
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Dipesh Chakrabarty
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Speakers: Dipesh Chakrabarty
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Speakers: Dipesh Chakrabarty
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The Climate Question II
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Reading Russian Philosophy in the Age of Putin
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Clemena AntonovaGeorge PattisonChristoph Schneider, Diana Dukhanova
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Democracy - A Fragile Way of Life
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Shalini RanderiaTill van Rahden
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After the Cold War ended, liberal democracy was taken for granted. Now it is in crisis: citizens distrust parliamentary politics, the people’s parties are losing members and votes, and social media are crowding out public debates. Challenging the sense of despair that informs recent studies on how democracy dies, Till van Rahden argued that it might prove more useful to explore what keeps it alive. A fruitful point of departure is the insight that democracy is not only a matter of elections and political parties, constitutions and parliaments, but is grounded in democratic experiences. The attention is less on how democratic government works, but on what equality, freedom, and justice feel like. A focus on democratic forms and aesthetics allows us to revisit the cultural and social foundations of democracy. No matter how stable a democracy may seem, it will wither and perish without ways of life that allow for and encourage democratic experiences.
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After the Cold War ended, liberal democracy was taken for granted. Now it is in crisis: citizens distrust parliamentary politics, the people’s parties are losing members and votes, and social media are crowding out public debates. Challenging the sense of despair that informs recent studies on how democracy dies, Till van Rahden argued that it might prove more useful to explore what keeps it alive. A fruitful point of departure is the insight that democracy is not only a matter of elections and political parties, constitutions and parliaments, but is grounded in democratic experiences. The attention is less on how democratic government works, but on what equality, freedom, and justice feel like. A focus on democratic forms and aesthetics allows us to revisit the cultural and social foundations of democracy. No matter how stable a democracy may seem, it will wither and perish without ways of life that allow for and encourage democratic experiences.
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Atomic Energy and the Arrogance of Man
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Katherine YoungerSerhii Plokhii
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On the morning of April 26, 1986, the world witnessed the worst nuclear disaster in history: the explosion of a reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Soviet Ukraine. Dozens died of radiation poisoning, fallout contaminated half the continent, and thousands fell ill. In his lecture, Serhii Plokhii draws on new sources to lay bare the flaws of the Soviet nuclear industry, tracing the disaster to the authoritarian character of Communist party rule, the regime’s control of scientific information, and its emphasis on economic development over all else. Today, the risk of another Chernobyl, claims Plokhii, looms in the mismanagement of nuclear power in the developing world.
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On the morning of April 26, 1986, the world witnessed the worst nuclear disaster in history: the explosion of a reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Soviet Ukraine. Dozens died of radiation poisoning, fallout contaminated half the continent, and thousands fell ill. In his lecture, Serhii Plokhii draws on new sources to lay bare the flaws of the Soviet nuclear industry, tracing the disaster to the authoritarian character of Communist party rule, the regime’s control of scientific information, and its emphasis on economic development over all else. Today, the risk of another Chernobyl, claims Plokhii, looms in the mismanagement of nuclear power in the developing world.
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Ukrainian Identity in the Time of War
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Ayşe ÇağlarMariia ShynkarenkoVolodymyr Kulyk, Mariia Shynkarenko
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Europe and the World After Ukraine
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Heather GrabbeIvan VejvodaNathalie TocciStefan LehneMisha Glenny
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A Speech to Europe 2024: "Shadows of History, Spectres of the Present: The Middle East War and Europe’s Challenge"
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Omri Boehm
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Speakers: Omri Boehm
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Speakers: Omri Boehm
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For the Ransom of the Soul
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Peter R.L. Brown
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Speakers: Peter R.L. Brown
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Speakers: Peter R.L. Brown
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