Ulrich Beck: How the European Project Can Be Saved: The Cosmopolitan Outlook

Public Lecture by Ulrich Beck, Thursday- 13th November, 19:00, Zadužbina Ilije M.Kolarca, Studentski trg 5, Belgrade

Europe is not a fixed condition, not a territorial unit, not a state, not a nation. In fact, there is no 'Europe', there is Europeanization, a process of on-going transformation, or metamorphosis: dissolving an old order and creating a new one– in a very specific sense: Europeanization is about politics of side-effects! The EU was founded not on the logic of war, as were states. It is a new kind of polity constructed in reaction to the risk of war and now, in reaction to the risk of economic collapse.