Writing and media
Essays on politics, economics and rhetoric, podcasts and conversations, and material for journalists.
Essays
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Preliminary Reflections on ’Social Cohesion’ (Part III)
The problem to which a notion like social cohesion refers, is the supposed contemporary division in the people, as if the people today was particularly wrought with internal…
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Preliminary Reflections on ’Social Cohesion’ (Part II)
Back in 2012, the OECD’s Development Centre focused its annual report on the topic of ‘Social Cohesion’. More specifically, the center had identified what they saw as a…
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Preliminary Reflections on ’Social Cohesion’ (Part I)
As a scholar of rhetoric, my first impulse when confronted with an unfamiliar concept is usually to try to understand what French philosopher, rhetoric scholar, and philologist Barbara…
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What Ukraine Teaches Us About War and Diplomacy
Towards the end of his Philosophy of Right, Hegel developed the idea of ‘the necessity of war’ as the ever-present threat against the modern nation state. What this…
Published elsewhere
SiteZones
A review of Olga Touloumi’s Assembly by Design, on the buildings of the United Nations and the architecture of global order.
Diplomacy
SiteZones
Theses on the Category of the People
With David Payne and Gustav Strandberg. The people as a limit category for critical thought.
Populism
Podcasts and conversations
Populism and the People
With David Payne, in conversation with Sven-Olov Wallenstein.
Nationalism and right-wing populism
With Richard Mole and Ronen Steinke.
Left populism and multiculturalism
With Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser, Christa Rautenbach and Julia Elad-Strenger.
What Holds the World Together?
A short report on the Residency Programme and social cohesion.
For journalists
I comment on political rhetoric, populism and post-truth, diplomacy, and how central banks and public authorities communicate.
Short, medium and long biography
Press photos, with photographer credit
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