I Plenary Discussion

I Plenary Discussion

“The End of the liberal order – revisiting the postwar world”

Discussion Questions:

• The liberal exceptionalism of the United States. The ability of the US to penetrate other cultures. The re-interpretation of Europe in the spirit of American liberalism during the Cold War. The worldwide push towards liberalism in the age of globalization.
• The difficulty to remember. The loss of context and cultural complexity in all major world civilizations during the age of colonialism and neocolonialism.
• What and who is a “civilizational” state? The concept of a civilizational state and the possibility to restitute lost traditions? Is it possible to connect pre-modern traditions to the living realities of the 21st century?
• Prospects for the 21st century: Will there be “such thing as society? The (nation)state in the world of the 21st Century.
• Can those cultural trends, which were tight to American hegemony, be changed and re-directed? Or how to imagine an alternative to the neo-liberal development trajectory.