Public lecture with professor Jan-Werner Müller: The Next State

Public lecture by Professor Jan-Werner Müller
Department of Politics, Princeton University
Founding Director, Project in the History of Political Thought
Acting Director, Program in Contemporary European Politics and Society

THE NEXT STATE

Almost four years into the "Eurocrisis" it remains far from clear what kind of crisis we are in. The lecture will claim that we are in a double crisis: one at the level of the EU itself, one at the level of individual nation-states.

The lecture will discuss two ways in which this double crisis could be addressed: an ordo- or neoliberal one and one that takes the risk of some form of democracy at the European level.

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The lecture will be introduced by professor Ole Thyssen and is organised in collaboration with Golden Days Festival

Jan-Werner Müller is a professor of politics at Princeton University, where he also directs the Project in the History of Political Thought. During the fall of 2012 he was a non-resident fellow at the Transatlantic Academy in Washington, DC; he is currently at the Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ. He has written numerous books, including A Dangerous Mind: Carl Schmitt in Post-War European Thought (Yale University Press, 2003); Constitutional Patriotism (Princeton University Press, 2007); and Contesting Democracy: Political Ideas in Twentieth-Century Europe (Yale University Press, 2011). He is currently writing a book on how Catholic thinkers in 19th and 20th century Europe imagined reconciling religion and modern democracy