About the Hybrid Event
"Think back to late June and early July. The French far right was favored to win a snap parliamentary election. Trumpist judges in the United States were conveniently resolving the legal woes of the former president, who seemed to be gliding to victory after President Joe Biden’s disastrous debate performance. And while Britain was getting a Labor government, a new anti-immigration party led by the chief Brexiteer, Nigel Farage, had made unprecedented gains. Faced with it all, pundits warned that a wave of populist, 'anti-incumbency' rage was sweeping across the world’s democracies." - Jan-Werner Mueller, Project Syndicate, August 16, 2024
Jan-Werner Müller is in Munich the day after the US vice-presidential candidates Senator JD Vance and Governor Tim Walz face off, to talk about the upcoming U.S. Presidential Elections and to discuss the state of our politics and the problems with our political parties, both in Europe and in the run-up to the US elections on November 5th. We'll unpack the debate as well as the workable strategies that Prof. Mueller proposes.
Photo: Jan-Werner Müller ©K.D. Busch
About the Speaker
K.D. Busch
Jan-Werner Müller is the Roger Williams Straus Professor of Social Sciences and Professor of Politics. He is a co-founder of the European College of Liberal Arts (today known as Bard Berlin), Germany’s first English-language liberal arts college. Müller’s recent books include What is Populism? (Penn Press, 2016), which has been translated into more than 20 languages, Furcht und Freiheit (Suhrkamp, 2019), which won the Bavarian Book Prize, and Democracy Rules (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021). At Princeton, Müller directs the Program in Political Philosophy, the Forum for the History of Political Thought, and the Academic Freedom Initiative. His public affairs commentary appears in the London Review of Books, The Guardian, and Foreign Policy.
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Organizers
A part of the Munich Dialogues on Democracy Speakers Series, a cooperation between The Yale Club of Germany e.V. (Munich Chapter) and the Amerikahaus - Bavarian Center for Transatlantic Relations.
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Location
Amerikahaus München
Karolinenplatz 3, 80333, München
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Contact
Program Manager – Culture and Politics
Email
mueller@amerikahaus.de
programm@amerikahaus.de
Telephone
+49 89 552537-13
Program Manager – Culture and Politics
Email
licht@amerikahaus.de
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