The podcast-series „Voices for Europe“ is a series of interviews. It 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 Maija Setälä from Turku/Finland explains the political situation in Finland such as growing animosity between the right and the left wing parties, geopolitical factors like the proximity to Russia and the effects of climate change.
Maija Setälä is a professor of Political Science at the University of Turku/Finland. In her research she specializes in democratic theories, especially theories of deliberative democracy, political trust, as well as various types of democratic innovations such as citizens‘ initiatives and deliberative mini-publics. She has published widely on these topics. An further focus of her research is future-regarding policy-making, which was the topic of the recent co-edited book Democracy and the Future (Michael MacKenzie, Maija Setälä and Simo Kyllönen (eds), Edinburgh University Press 2023). In the recent and ongoing research projects FACTOR, FLAIRE and SINCRONY, her interests are in the role of citizen deliberation in climate and energy transitions and issues of inclusion in deliberative forums. In the future, Her plans include an increasing focus on the prospects and pitfalls of AI in citizen participation and deliberation.
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.
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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:
Moderation:
Felix Heidenreich (IZKT)
A project produced in cooperation with the Public Library of Stuttgart and Stiftung Geißstraße Stuttgart.
