Image Covers of Tim Jackson’s books Prosperity without Growth and Post Growth The national states: The historical ballast Through a coincidental confluence of events and inventions ‒ expressly not as a project inherent and preprogrammed in European enlightenment ‒...
The 2024 UN Pact for the Future outlines a brave plan for a new world order. Its ideas are not new. The plan echoes the Brandt Commission on the North-South issue in the 1970s and the Carlsson-Ramphal Commission on global governance in the 1990s. Will political...
The future as progress The belief that the future is progress broke through with the French revolution and the enlightenment philosophy that paved its way. Before that, a cyclical time perspective had prevailed since antiquity. Cyclical time had a political...
This essay argues for a new universal meta norm in a time when there is no convincing grand narrative. The point of reference is the UN universal human rights declaration in 1948 and the de-essentialising postcolonial debate around key concepts like hybridity,...
Herfried Münkler, Welt in Aufruhr. Die Ordnung der Mächte im 21. Jahrhundert. Berlin: Rowohlt 2023. (“World in Turmoil. The Order of the Powers in the 21st Century”). The beginning is drastic. The promises of the future as progress that characterized the idea of...
Jonathan S Blake and Nils Gilman, Children of a Modest Star. Planetary Thinking for an Age of Crises. Stanford, Cal: Stanford University Press 2024. This book sets the bar high in its ambition to radically rethink the present world order based on sovereign national...
The discourse around globalization sped up in the 1990s. It was a strong expression of the remaining impact of the nineteenth-century narrative on how Europe civilized and modernized the world. Europe was capitalism and democracy as ever-expanding forces for the...
Once upon a time, this was the first and only individual professorial homepage on the website of the European University Institute. The Institute’s first webmaster Sieglinde Schreiner asked Bo Stråth to create it as a test case, and they began the experiment...
Forthcoming January 2024 Hardback deliverable from 6 December (preorder 15 November 2023) Description For over a decade, the world has experienced an accelerating erosion of a language that took hundreds of years to emerge. It is a language ordering time and space...
An experiended need for new world history, an alternative to the globalization narrative, was behind the initiation of this project in 2008. An alternative with a focus on how we conceptualize cohabitation on Earth, realizing that humans are not the only inhabitants, as opposed to the story about the transportation of commodities on a world market without borders where human labour, too, became commodities. This experienced need for a new conceptualization in 2008 has since then gained profile and precision in the argument for a planetary perspective on cohabitation on Earth.
