Liberty and Responsibility: Two Sides of the Same Coin?
Curated with Political Academy, Konrad Adenauer-Stiftung e.V. and Alois Mock Institute
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Alphof Seminarraum
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in englischer Sprache”In politics liberty means responsibility.” Joachim Gauck’s quote brings the essence of our topic to the point. Society demands for more liberties, but does it come together with the willingness to take responsibility? How can we raise the desire in people to act in a more responsible manner?
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Dr. Mikulas DZURINDA
President, Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies, Brussels; former Slovak Prime Minister, Bratislava
| Mikulas Dzurinda was elected president of the WMCES in December 2013. He is the former prime minister of Slovakia (1998-2006) and has held various positions in government since first entering politics in 1990. Once he became prime minister and formed a coalition government in 1998, Dzurinda introduced far-reaching reforms which have enabled Slovakia to begin the process of joining the EU and NATO. After being re-elected in 2002, Dzurinda led Slovakia to become a member of the EU and NATO in 2004, a process which he actively took part in from the beginning. Since Slovakia gained independence in 1993, Dzurinda has also held the position of Minister of Transportation and more recently that of Minister for Foreign Affairs (from July 2010 to April 2012). Dzurinda is a founding member of the Slovak Democratic and Christian Union-Democratic Party (SDKÚ-DS) and was chairman of the party from 2000 to 2012. From 2012 to 2016 he was a member of the Slovak Parliament. In 2007 he was awarded the F.A. Hayek International Prize for reforms and fight against bureaucracy. He is also a marathon runner. |
Ivan KRASTEV
Chairman, Centre for Liberal Strategies, Sofia
| Ivan Krastev is the chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia and permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna. He is a founding board member of the European Council on Foreign Relations, a member of the Board of Trustees of The International Crisis Group and is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times. In 2018-2019 Ivan is appointed as the Henry A. Kissinger Chair in Foreign Policy and International Relations at the John W. Kluge Center, Library of Congress. His latest books in English are 'After Europe' (UPenn Press, May 2017) 'Democracy Disrupted. The Global Politics on Protest' (UPenn Press, May 2014); 'In Mistrust We Trust: Can Democracy Survive When We Don't Trust Our Leaders?' (TED Books, 2013). He is a co-author with Stephen Holmes of a forthcoming book 'The Light that Failed' (with Penguin) on perils of the politics of imitation. |
Volker ULLRICH
Saskia STACHOWITSCH
Professor International Relations, University of Vienna, Scientific Director, oiip - Austrian Institute of International Affairs, Vienna
| Saskia Stachowitsch holds a Doctoral degree in political science from the University of Vienna, 2010. She is a professor in International Relations at the University of Vienna and a Scientific Director of the oiip - Austrian Institute of International Affairs in Vienna. Moreover, she is a member of various scientific academies, such as the Austrian Academy of Sciences and a reviewer for numerous renowned journals. Her main research topics are critical security and military studies, feminist and postcolonial theories in international relations, privatization of security, private military and security companies (PMSCs), EU border security, transnational actors (e.g. Frontex) and parliamentarianism, antisemitism, and the political history of Austrian Jews. |
