This series of podcast-interviews gives researchers from all over Europe a voice. We exchange views from different countries, talk about background specifics, and try to give an honest assessment of the state of the EU.

In this episode Hanco Jürgens from Amsterdam explains the political system in the Netherlands, its political culture, and the role the EU plays in Dutch politics. We also talk about the impact of the Russian war against Ukraine on Dutch politics and the German-Dutch relations.

Hanco Jürgens is a senior researcher at the Duitsland Instituut Amsterdam, the Germany Institute at the University of Amsterdam, and a fellow at the Montesquieu Institute in The Hague. He specializes in modern European history in a global context. He published on a wide variety of topics, such as the reports of German missionaries in India in the Eighteenth Century, on India and the Enlightenment, German – Dutch relations after the Fall of the Berlin Wall and German and Dutch EU policy. Currently, he is focusing on recent German history since the 1980s. He is particularly interested in the changes of key concepts in Germany such as the social market economy, civil society, civilian power, constitutional democracy, the GDR, the European Union or the Holocaust. In recent years, he published a book on the Netherlands since the Fall of the Wall and coedited a book on Germany within the European Union. As a Dutch expert on German history, he is a regular guest on Dutch radio and television and publishes op-eds in the Dutch quality newspaper NRC Handelsblad, among others about the Zeitenwende in the Netherlands and Germany.  

Notes:

• The BBC journalist Hanco Jürgens mentions at the end is Anna Holligan. Here homepage can be found here: https://www.ovgmanagement.com/anna-holligan

  The two books Hanco Jürgens mentioned are:

• “Joe Speedboat” by the author Tommy Wieringa.
  The English translation by Sam Garrett can be found here: https://groveatlantic.com/book/joe-speedboat/

• “A Concise History of the Netherlands” by James C. Kennedy: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/concise-history-of-the-netherlands/F5C341B3BCD9FA3F6846BECBC616A696

Moderation:
Felix Heidenreich (IZKT)

A project produced in cooperation with the Public Library of Stuttgart and Stiftung Geißstraße Stuttgart.

This series of podcast-interviews gives researchers from all over Europe a voice. We exchange views from different countries, talk about background specifics, and try to give an honest assessment of the state of the EU.

In this episode we learn from António Raimundo about the specific situation in Portugal, the fact that in contrast to other European countries populism does not play a major role in Portugal, about the way the European integration is viewed in Portugal, and about the way the role of the so-called “smaller countries” within in the EU is evolving.

António Raimundo is a Research Fellow at the Research Centre in Political Science of University of Minho. He holds a PhD in International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a Masters in European Politics from the Université Libre de Bruxelles. Recently he completed a postdoc on the Europeanization of Portuguese foreign policy and was part of the European research project “EU Foreign Policy Facing New Realities”. He has been Guest Lecturer in several Portuguese universities and has contributed to the “Yearbook of European Integration” of the Institut für Europäische Politik (IEP) as national expert on Portugal. His research has covered topics such as European integration, Europeanization, Portugal’s European and foreign policy, Brexit and EU-Africa relations. Among other outlets, he has published in the Journal of European Integration, Journal of Contemporary European Studies and European Politics and Society.

Notes:

• When debating the EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy, António at one point talks about „moving towards unanimity“, when he actually meant moving towards majority voting.

• The book António Raimundo mentioned is the Oxford Handbook of Portuguese Politics: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-handbook-of-portuguese-politics-9780192855404?cc=de&lang=en&

Moderation:
Felix Heidenreich (IZKT)

A project produced in cooperation with the Public Library of Stuttgart and Stiftung Geißstraße Stuttgart.

Mit der Vision der Universität Stuttgart „Intelligente Systeme für eine zukunftsfähige Gesellschaft“ ist eine Vielzahl von Fragestellungen verbunden – u.a. naturwissenschaftliche, ingenieurwissenschaftliche, philosophische, aber auch wirtschafts-, sozial-, erziehungs- und rechtswissenschaftliche. Mit ausgewählten Themen zu Letzteren setzten sich die sieben Vorträge der Ringvorlesung der Fakultät Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften der Universität Stuttgart im Wintersemester 2021/22 auseinander. Unsere Gesprächsreihe thematisiert die Forschungsergebnisse und Thesen im Gespräch mit den Referent:innen.

In dieser Folge geht es um eine politikwissenschaftliche Perspektive auf den Begriff „intelligentes System“ und darum, inwiefern auch politische Systeme und Demokratie als „intelligent“ bezeichnet werden können.

Rebecca Beiter (Cyber Valley) und PD Dr. Felix Heidenreich (IZKT) sprechen mit Prof. Dr. André Bächtiger, Leiter des Instituts für Sozialwissenschaften der Universität Stuttgart (Abteilung Politische Theorie und Empirische Demokratieforschung).

Kooperationsprojekt der Universität Stuttgart (Fakultät 10 & Internationales Zentrum für Kultur- und Technikforschung (IZKT)) mit dem Cyber Valley (Public Engagement).