Journal Highlights
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The Economic Crisis, US Progressivism, and West European Socialism and Social Democracy. By Norman Birnbaum
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The Society of Freedom – Global Crisis Outlook. By Milos Pick
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New Politics, Old Dilemmas. By Stephen Barber
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Can the State still be saved? By Karin Roth
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The changing Face of Global Governance. By David Held
Columns
Europe’s Federalism Debate Revived
This issue is of persistent concern for investors worldwide. Holders of European government bonds believed that they knew what they had bought. Sure, there was no such thing as a eurozone sovereign security. But German, French, Spanish, and even Greek bonds all carried roughly the same interest rate, so they were deemed equivalent.
Investors now recognize [...]
Is Post-Ideology coming to a Voting Booth near You?
I hadn’t planned on writing about Hungary again quite so soon – not unless our domestic politics raised some point of larger significance to European progressives in general. But a few days ago our new right-wing (?) prime minister, Viktor Orbán announced that the time of the old ideologies that had shaped the 20th century [...]
New Transatlantic Relations with a “Pacific” President
By his own definition, Barak Obama is the US’ first „Pacific“ President. Indeed, raised in Hawaii and Indonesia there are few “Atlantic” ties to be found in his biography. Obama’s remarks, delivered during a visit to Asia, may be only intended as a polite gesture; nevertheless they indicate a shift of attention away from Europe [...]
Russia’s Great Gas Game
Russia and the European Union are geopolitical neighbors. Whether or not their relationship is in fact neighborly, rather than tense and confrontational, is of critical importance to both.
Unless it modernizes its economy and society, Russia can forget its claim to status as a world power in the twenty-first century and will continue to fall behind [...]
Europe’s New Climate Narrative – The Race is On!
It was an unexpected move and a surprise for many observers of Europe’s climate policy: German Environment Minister Norbert Röttgen, French Environment Minister Jean-Louis Borloo and UK Energy and Climate Change Minister Chris Huhne jointly called for a more ambitious European climate target in international newspapers two weeks ago. A reduction target of at least [...]
The “Stimulus Debate” and the Golden Rule of Mountain Climbing
The global macroeconomy is at a juncture; some economists argue for continued fiscal stimulus to avoid a double dip recession while others argue for fiscal prudence. In this column, one of the world’s leading macroeconomists argues for continued stimulus combined with a plan to ensure long-run sustainability by reforming the funding of pension liabilities.
The golden [...]
Blogs
Europe 2010: Collective Bargaining in Crisis? New Social Europe Journal Out Now!
The new Social Europe Journal Vol. 5 Issue 1 is now available as pdf download for those of you who prefer a pdf version to reading individual articles on this website.
The new journal includes contributions by Norman Birnbaum, Klaus Busch, Milos Pick, Vera Glassner, Andrew Watt, Uwe Fink, Nick Crook, Karolina Stegemann, Udo Rehfeldt, Mia [...]
European Economic Governance Madness
Euractiv reported about a new Franco-German declaration to the task force charged with working up a mechanism of economic governance for the EU/Eurozone. Completely ignorant about the ongoing debates about how counterproductive early fiscal austerity could be the document states:
Member States would be expected to enact national laws that formalise the public finance recovery path [...]
Would you ban the Burka?
The Pew Global Attitudes Project has recently published a very interesting piece of research investigating attitudes towards the full Islamic veil. The results show a remarkable difference between Europeans and US citizens.
Even though Damian Green, the UK immigration minister, says a ban of the Burka would be “un-British” the vast majority of Brits seem [...]
Social Europe Journal Editorial Board Member new Europe Minister
Social Europe Journal Editorial Board member Dr Angelica Schwall-Dueren has been appointed as Europe Minister in the new government of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany’s most populous state.
The whole Social Europe Journal team would like to congratulate Angelica. We know you will do a great job!
More info about Angelica and her new post can be found here (in [...]
