The Return of History to the Present with Luuk van Middelaar

How to interpret the results of the Dutch elections? What does the return of history to European affairs really mean? Is the EU a stage or an actor in the big drama of history? And what kind of Europe is emerging from Donald Trump’s efforts to dismantle the American empire and the post-1945 world order?

Leszek Jazdzewski (Fundacja Liberte!) talks with Luuk van Middelaar, the founding Director of Brussels Institute for Geopolitics. A political theorist, historian, and author of the prizewinning The Passage to Europe (2013), he recently published Le Réveil géopolitique de l’Europe (2022), Pandemonium (2021) and Alarums and Excursions (2019), groundbreaking accounts of the Union’s crisis politics. Tune in for their talk!

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