Online conversation, hosted by Verso Books, July 28, 2020.
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Reflections on the Particular and the Universal: Varieties and Commonalities in Social Life and Social Science
Keynote lecture at conference ‘Work, Ethics and Freedom’, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, December 11, 2019.
Come finirà il capitalismo
The International State System after Neoliberalism
IWM Lectures in Human Sciences, Institute for Human Sciences Vienna, June 05, 2019.
The Kaleidoscope of Capitalism
Politische Stagnation – Reflexionen über einen unhaltbaren Zustand
Carl Friedrich von Siemens-Stiftung, München, 14. April 2019.
Was wird aus der Friedensmacht Europa?
Globalization and the Transformation of the International State System
Norbert Lechner Lecture, Diego Portales University, Chile, November 14, 2018.
In a globally integrated capitalist economy borders between states are supposed to become economically irrelevant. Globalization is the ultimate form of liberalization; it shields free markets, instituted on a global scale, from national state intervention, in particular of a redistributive kind. Rather than markets located in states, under globalization states become located in markets. This has momentous consequences for the nature of statehood, both domestically and internationally. States located in markets lose the capacity to protect their economies and societies from market competition; in fact their economic role, if one is left for them at all, is to deregulate their national economies in order to make them more competitive, internally first and as a consequence externally as well. (…)
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Aufstehen: Die Chancen einer linken Sammlungsbewegung in Deutschland
Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, 10. September 2018
Podiumsdiskussion mit Sahra Wagenknecht, Wolfgang Merkel und Nils Heisterhagen.
Driving forces: Social Theory as a Theory of History
The Dynamics of Capitalism: Inquiries to Marx on the occasion of his 200th birthday, Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung, May 04, 2018