{"id":2476,"date":"2022-11-15T17:25:23","date_gmt":"2022-11-15T17:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/axsonjohnsonfoundation.org\/?post_type=seminar&p=2476"},"modified":"2022-11-25T12:47:27","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T12:47:27","slug":"2011-politics-and-ideology","status":"publish","type":"seminar","link":"https:\/\/axsonjohnsonfoundation.org\/sv\/seminarier\/2011-politics-and-ideology\/","title":{"rendered":"2011: Politics and Ideology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\n Where are we heading in the global political landscape? Will old ideologies disappear, fade away or be reborn, and if the former is the case, what will the new ideological landscape look like and how will it affect the conditions of political life? The death of ideology has been predicted repeatedly over the years, but time and time again we have also seen old ideologies return under new covers. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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Most of the major political parties in the Western world have, in recent times, moved towards the centre, motivated by the idea of universal welfare, and in our global era all Western states embrace the idea of the welfare society.<\/p>\n

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In a country like Sweden, some on the left see the adjustments of the Social Democratic party as treason or an adaptation to \u201cneo-liberalism\u201d, blaming the decline of the party on its drift towards the \u201cright\u201d. Meanwhile, in the conservative and liberal parties, critics rail against the adjustment to the left in their own parties.<\/p>\n

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Nevertheless, the centre-rightwing alliance in Sweden has won two elections in a row with this policy. Do these developments signal a general international trend, where the old struggle between labour and capital has finally been settled in a universally embraced welfare ideology, and classical social democratic components are spiced up with a dose of life-style liberalism?<\/p>\n

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All over Europe, parties characterised as national \u201cwelfare huggers\u201d are being set up. That includes the Sweden Democrats, a party difficult to pinpoint on the left\/right scale, and whose sympathisers are often members of the labour union.<\/p>\n

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Not everyone, however, sees \u201cthe end of history\u201d in the form of the welfare state. Irrational exuberance of course also applies to careless politicians who have allowed citizens to over-consume, as in Britain and Greece. Some have also begun to question the sustainability of the welfare state as such, asking how deep the cuts in the welfare systems will be in the developed world. In some ways the \u201csacred cow\u201d of universal welfare has already suffered its first serious blow; families with an income over \u00a340,000 in the UK will no longer receive child care benefits from the state.<\/p>\n

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And last but not least: some ask whether the national welfare state in the long run is compatible with liberal ideals such as free immigration.<\/p>\n

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In this conference we will address the present but also the past. We will highlight some of the historical political ideas and systems which impact on the present. We also look at authoritarian state capitalism, as in the case of China, asking if it is sustainable. And if it is, how will it influence the world? Will it become the exemplary model, just as liberal democracy has been for a long time to many peoples and nations? Will Islamism, xenophobic and anti-immigrant parties and other movements on the fringes of the political and ideological spectrum in Europe, US and the Islamic world, strengthen the existing order of things, or undermine confidence in them? And what are the long-term consequences of the recent developments in the Arab world \u2013 liberal democracy or democracy bringing Islamism to power?<\/p>\n

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Has globalisation meant that politics has taken a quantum leap, so that the ideologies from the 18th and 19th century \u2013 communism, conservatism, social democracy and liberalism \u2013 are no longer relevant as expressions of the class interests that characterised the modern era? In the final analysis, what are the implications of globalisation for politics and ideology? Will a world parliament, a worldwide green movement, or various movements with religion as the common denominator be the answer? Or will we perhaps instead see the return of another old phantom: nationalism?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

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\n Richard Miles: Politics & Ideology in the Ancient World <\/p>\n

\n Senior Lecturer in the Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Sydney, Australia <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Dick Harrison: Politics Before the French Revolution <\/p>\n

\n Professor, Lund University, Sweden <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Kenneth Minogue: Ideology versus Politics in History <\/p>\n

\n Emeritus Professor of Government, LSE, UK <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Michael Bentley: British Ideologies: Separation and Fusion <\/p>\n

\n Professor, University of St Andrews, UK <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Richard Evans: German Ideologies <\/p>\n

\n Regius Professor of History and Professor at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, UK <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n John Keane: Ideology of Democracy <\/p>\n

\n Professor of Politics at the University of Sydney and at the Wissenschaftszentrum, Berlin, Germany <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Michael Freeden: Ideology: From Temporal Contingency to Political Ubiquity <\/p>\n

\n Professor of Politics and Professor at Mansfield College, Oxford, UK <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Vernon Bogdanor: On the Journey of British Li\u00adberalism <\/p>\n

\n Research Professor, Institute of Contemporary History, King\u2019s College, London, UK <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Nicholas Boles: Role of Ideology in Modern Conservatism <\/p>\n

\n MP and Parliamentary Private Secretary, Political Fellow, Institute for Government, UK <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Ulrike Ackerman: Eco\u00ad-Egalitarianism <\/p>\n

\n Professor and Head of the John Stuart Mill Institute for Research on Freedom, Germany <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n John Lloyd: Strains in the Centre\u00ad-Left <\/p>\n

\n Contributing Editor to the Financial Times. Director of the Axess Programme on Journalism and Democracy. Director of Journalism, Reuters Institute, Oxford, UK <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Per Schlingmann: Swedish Welfare: A Moderate Future <\/p>\n

\n State Secretary, Prime Minister\u2019s Office, Sweden <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Robert Shapiro: America and the Reluctant Welfare State <\/p>\n

\n Chairman of Sonecon. Member of the Board, Ax:son Johnson Foundation, USA <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n James Bartholomew: The Welfare State as Drug Addiction <\/p>\n

\n Journalist and Author, UK <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Stephan Eisel: Social Market Economy: An Alternative <\/p>\n

\n Member of the Editorial Board of Die Politische Meinung, Germany <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Minxin Pei: Strains in Authoritarian Capitalist Regimes <\/p>\n

\n Professor and Director, Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies, Claremont McKenna College, USA <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Mark Leonard: China\u2019s Intellectual Emancipation <\/p>\n

\n Co-Founder and Director of the European Council on Foreign Relations, UK <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Johan Lagerkvist: Uneasy Coexistence: Social Media and China\u2019s Authoritarian Capitalism <\/p>\n

\n Senior Research Fellow, Swedish Institute of International Affairs, Sweden <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Robert Kaplan: Is Authoritarian Capitalism an Ideology? <\/p>\n

\n Author and Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security in Washington, USA <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Scott Atran: The Science of the Sacred <\/p>\n

\n Research Director, National Center for Scientific Research, France. Visiting Professor, University of Michigan, USA <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Malise Ruthven: Religion, Ideology, Identity <\/p>\n

\n Writer, UK <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Paul Berman: Religion and Intolerance <\/p>\n

\n Author, USA <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Maria Wetterstrand: The Greens in Between <\/p>\n

\n Former Spokesperson Green Party, Swedish Parliament, Sweden <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Roger Scruton: Mass Movements and Local Loyalties <\/p>\n

\n Visiting Fellow, American Enterprise Institute, Senior Research Fellow, Blackfriars Hall, Oxford. Visiting Research Professor, University of St Andrews, UK <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Anna Jardfeldt: Challenges to Overcome <\/p>\n

\n Director, Swedish Institute of International Affairs, Sweden <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Hisham Melhem: Arab Springs: The Promise and the Perils <\/p>\n

\n Washington Bureau Chief, Al Arabyia, USA <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Nathan Shachar: Western Influences on Arab Ideologies <\/p>\n

\n Foreign Correspondent, Dagens Nyheter. Member of the Editorial Board, Axess Magazine, Sweden <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n David Frum: Will America Turn Hard Right? <\/p>\n

\n Editor, FrumForum.com, USA <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Robert Cooper: A World Without Ideologies? <\/p>\n

\n Counsellor in the European External Action Service (EEAS), UK <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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\n Oliver Kamm: Tranquillity of Spirit: the Future of Liberalism <\/p>\n

\n Leader Writer, The Times, UK <\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n\n

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