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“ZEITENWENDE? Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine: A Roundtable on the Implications for the Liberal Order”

English-language online panel discussion to be hosted by the Cluster of Excellence “Contestations of the Liberal Script – SCRIPTS” at Freie Universität Berlin on March 15, from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. (CET)

№ 027/2022 from Mar 11, 2022

On March 15, 2022, an online panel discussion hosted by the Cluster of Excellence “Contestations of the Liberal Script (SCRIPTS)” will address European and global perspectives on Russia’s attack on Ukraine. Seven scholars from China, Europe, India, and Ukraine will describe, explain, and discuss diverging European and global perspectives with regard to the attack by Russia, as well as possible consequences for the international liberal order. The English-language event can be followed via livestream.

In an extraordinary session of the German parliament on February 27, 2022, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) emphasized in his speech on the Russian invasion of Ukraine that we are living through a turning point in history, a so-called Zeitenwende. According to experts, Russia’s attack is not only threatening Ukraine’s sovereignty; it is also endangering and changing the European and international order that emerged after the end of the Cold War.

Panelists

  • Prof. Dr. Katharina Bluhm, Institute for East European Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, Division of Sociology; Principal Investigator in the SCRIPTS Cluster of Excellence;
    Main areas of research: economic sociology, political sociology, Eastern Europe
  • Prof. Dr. Tanja Börzel, Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science, Freie Universität Berlin, Center for European Integration; Director of SCRIPTS
    Main areas of research: enlargement of the EU, Treaties of Rome, institutional structure under the Lisbon Treaty, governance and institutional change in the EU
  • Prof. Dr. Thomas Risse, Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science, Freie Universität Berlin, Center for Transnational Relations, Foreign and Security Policy; Principal Investigator in the SCRIPTS Cluster of Excellence; Director of the Berlin International College of Research and Graduate Training (BIRT) in the SCRIPTS Cluster of Excellence
    Main areas of research: German foreign policy, transatlantic relations, European integration, challenges for the liberal international order
  • Dr. Tobias Rupprecht, Head of the Junior Research Group “Peripheral Liberalism” in the SCRIPTS Cluster of Excellence
    Main areas of research: (State) socialism, (neo) liberalism, Soviet Union, Eastern Europe
  • Prof. Dr. Ummu Salma Bava, Professor of European Studies and Jean Monnet Chair at the Center for European Studies (Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi)
    Main areas of research: European Union, Germany, India, domestic policy, foreign policy, security policy
  • Lunting Wu, Doctoral researcher in the “Orders” research group in the SCRIPTS Cluster of Excellence
    Main areas of research: International relations, comparative politics, South-South cooperation
  • Dr. Tatiana Zhurzhenko, Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS); postdoctoral researcher in the “The Liberal Script in Ukraine’s Contested Border Regions” group of the SCRIPTS Cluster of Excellence
    Main areas of research: borders and border regions in the post-Soviet space, politics of memory, conflict and post-conflict societies, gender and feminism

Further Information

  • “ZEITENWENDE? Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine: A Roundtable on the Implications for the Liberal Order”
  • Tuesday, March 15, 2022, from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. (CET)
  • Link to the livestream
  • The discussion will take place in English.

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Information about the SCRIPTS Cluster of Excellence

The Cluster of Excellence “Contestations of the Liberal Script (SCRIPTS)” is a research consortium that analyses the contemporary controversies about the model of liberal democracy and the market economy from a historical, global, and comparative perspective. The term “liberal script” relates to a set of ideas and institutional prescriptions about how society is organized based on the core principle of individual self-determination. The main purpose of SCRIPTS is to understand why the liberal model of order has fallen into crisis despite its political, economic, and social achievements.

In operation since 2019, SCRIPTS is hosted by Freie Universität Berlin and unites eight major Berlin-based research institutes. SCRIPTS is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) until the end of 2025 as part of the Excellence Initiative of the German federal and state governments. The directors of SCRIPT are Prof. Dr. Tanja A. Börzel (Freie Universität Berlin) and Prof. Dr. Michael Zürn (Freie Universität Berlin and WZB Berlin Social Science Center). The research teams are made up of scholars from the social sciences and area studies. In the areas of research and knowledge exchange, SCRIPTS works with research institutions throughout the world as well as with knowledge exchange partners from politics, culture, and society. In addition, SCRIPTS brings renowned visiting scholars from all over the world to Berlin.

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