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The International State System after Neoliberalism
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Lecture
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Wolfgang Streeck
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Speakers: Wolfgang Streeck
Series: Lecture
Wolfgang Streeck began by recalling a short essay by Karl Polanyi, written in 1945, in which he discusses the prospects of a new, peaceful global order, based on the lessons of the war and the interwar period. In it Polanyi advocates an international regime beyond both Communist and neoliberal universalism that allows for national political-economic self-determination. Of particular importance here is Polanyi’s concept of “regional planning”, which stands for jointly regulated sectoral economic cooperation between neighboring sovereign countries that retain their monetary sovereignty. Comparing Polanyi’s vision to the world of today he found differences and similarities that both appear highly instructive. Among other things, it seems that the prospects for a democratically decentralized European state system, as opposed to the technocratic centralization promoted by the European Union, are intertwined with the emerging global relationship between China, now occupying in Polanyi’s scenario the position of the Soviet Union, and a, perhaps, increasingly isolationist United States. In this context, Wolfgang Streeck pointed to the propagation of a new collective defense narrative – the “European army” project – as a substitute for the social welfare and prosperity narrative in support of “European integration” that has lost its credibility with the collapse of neoliberalism as a viable political formula.
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Speakers: Wolfgang Streeck
Series: Lecture
Wolfgang Streeck began by recalling a short essay by Karl Polanyi, written in 1945, in which he discusses the prospects of a new, peaceful global order, based on the lessons of the war and the interwar period. In it Polanyi advocates an international regime beyond both Communist and neoliberal universalism that allows for national political-economic self-determination. Of particular importance here is Polanyi’s concept of “regional planning”, which stands for jointly regulated sectoral economic cooperation between neighboring sovereign countries that retain their monetary sovereignty. Comparing Polanyi’s vision to the world of today he found differences and similarities that both appear highly instructive. Among other things, it seems that the prospects for a democratically decentralized European state system, as opposed to the technocratic centralization promoted by the European Union, are intertwined with the emerging global relationship between China, now occupying in Polanyi’s scenario the position of the Soviet Union, and a, perhaps, increasingly isolationist United States. In this context, Wolfgang Streeck pointed to the propagation of a new collective defense narrative – the “European army” project – as a substitute for the social welfare and prosperity narrative in support of “European integration” that has lost its credibility with the collapse of neoliberalism as a viable political formula.
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The Intersections of Syrian Refugees’ Dilemma: Settlement, Onward Movement, and Return
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Seminars and Colloquia
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Ayşe ÇağlarAhmet İçduygu
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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The Invention of Ukraine: How War Is Remaking Ukrainian Media
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Seminars and Colloquia
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Aleksander PalikotMariia Shynkarenko
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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The Last Forty Years and the Next Forty: Eastern Europe, Europe, the World
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Panels and Discussions
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Ivan KrastevTimothy SnyderYuval Harari
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Series: Panels and Discussions
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Series: Panels and Discussions
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The Light That Failed. A Reckoning
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Panels and Discussions
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Ivan KrastevStephen HolmesMichael Ignatieff
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The Limits of Migration Control
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Lecture
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Dariusz StolaIvan VejvodaRanabir Samaddar
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Series: Lecture
Thanks to a historically unprecedented system of police control, transnational mobility from European communist states is probably the best documented social phenomenon of its kind and a unique experiment in the limits of the state control of mobility. This lecture presented some of the conclusions of Stola’s research project on migrations from communist Poland. These migrations underwent a marked evolution, from the movement of millions of people in the 1940s; to almost nil under the non-exit policy of the early 1950s; to the reemergence and gradual expansion of transnational mobility, especially within the Soviet bloc, between 1956 and 1980; to mass population flows in the late 1980s. Each trip outside the bloc, and indeed each trip abroad for most of the duration of communist rule, required applying for a permit from the Security Service. This procedure resulted in an archival collection of passport files that fills some 60 kilometers of shelf space. Despite the constraints, more than two million people eventually left Poland for good, and temporary movements occurred on a mass scale, pioneering forms of mobility that continued well after 1989. This lecture shed light on the key factors and currents of migration in communist Poland, as well as the evolution of the migration regime, from early imitation of the Soviet model to its eventual implosion.
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Series: Lecture
Thanks to a historically unprecedented system of police control, transnational mobility from European communist states is probably the best documented social phenomenon of its kind and a unique experiment in the limits of the state control of mobility. This lecture presented some of the conclusions of Stola’s research project on migrations from communist Poland. These migrations underwent a marked evolution, from the movement of millions of people in the 1940s; to almost nil under the non-exit policy of the early 1950s; to the reemergence and gradual expansion of transnational mobility, especially within the Soviet bloc, between 1956 and 1980; to mass population flows in the late 1980s. Each trip outside the bloc, and indeed each trip abroad for most of the duration of communist rule, required applying for a permit from the Security Service. This procedure resulted in an archival collection of passport files that fills some 60 kilometers of shelf space. Despite the constraints, more than two million people eventually left Poland for good, and temporary movements occurred on a mass scale, pioneering forms of mobility that continued well after 1989. This lecture shed light on the key factors and currents of migration in communist Poland, as well as the evolution of the migration regime, from early imitation of the Soviet model to its eventual implosion.
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The Most Documented War. Symposium for Documentation and Archiving Initiatives
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Conferences and Workshops
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The New Asian Geopolitics
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Panels and Discussions
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Shivshankar Menon
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Speakers: Shivshankar Menon
Series: Panels and Discussions
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Speakers: Shivshankar Menon
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The New Class Divide and the American Election
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Panels and Discussions
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Ivan KrastevMark LillaMichael Fleischhacker
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Series: Panels and Discussions
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Series: Panels and Discussions
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The Odesa Childhood of Isaac Babel
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Seminars and Colloquia
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Aleksander KaczorowskiKatherine YoungerMischa Gabowitsch
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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