Name: EUROPE'S CULTURE WARS
Start: 2018-11-06T19:45:00+01:00
Location: Berlin

This public debate is part of the Battle of Ideas Berlin

The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 was greeted with elation. A generation later, many look at Europe with fear. The spectre haunting the continent is not communism but populism, which many feel has been spreading from the East to the West.

And indeed, several European states now have governments that have been termed populist, illiberal or chauvinistic.

Imperceptibly, a silent and not-so-silent culture war has erupted, with allusions to the Weimar Republic.

While each country is, of course, quite different, the issues driving the changes seem to be surprisingly similar: a rejection of the EU and of mass immigration.

What can we make of the changes taking place? No one can deny that the rise of the so-called populists has also opened up the debate. But is this debate going in the right direction? Are we experiencing a new backwardness or a democratic awakening?

Speakers:

Professor Frank Füredi, sociologist, author: How Fear Works
Professor Michael Zürn, FU, Director director, Research Unit Global Governance, WZB (Berlin Social Science Center); author: A Theory of Global Governance: authority, legitimacy and contestation

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