Looking West – Zur aktuellen Lage in den USA

In the organizer's words:

Heike Paul and Marcel Dirsus

The news is confusing, the status quo is fragile
is fragile and political about-turns on a daily
hardly come as a surprise anymore.
American scholar and Leibniz Prize winner Heike Paul
talks to political scientist and journalist
Marcel Dirsus about current political developments
in the USA and attempts to explain them by reflecting
about political violence and the possible need for
and the possible need for new concepts.
How to deal with the increasing influence of
corporations and accusations of the new fascism?
What does this political era mean for the model of
liberal democracy, our relationship with the "West"
and transatlantic relations?