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23 January, 2018

Frukostseminarium: Kan man planera för framtiden?

De senaste decennierna har flera politiskt tillsatta framtidskommissioner och utredningar sett dagens ljus för att snart falla i glömska eller drunkna i allt som redan händer här och nu. Men vilka behoVi har bjudit in Katarina Engberg, fil. dr. i Freds- och konfliktforskning samt tidigare departementsråd i Regeringskansliet, att berätta om sin erfarenhet av strategisk planering i Statsrådsberedningen (Kansliet för strategi- och framtidsfrågor och EU-kansliet), Försvarsdepartementet och Försvarsmakten. Tid: Torsdag, 15 februari 08.30–10.00 med enklare frukost från kl. 08.00Plats: Institutet för Framtidsstudier, Holländargatan 13 i Stockholm

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19 April, 2018

The Role of Elite Corruption in Today’s Illiberalism

Welcome to Janine Wedel's inaugural lecture as a Kerstin Hesselgrens Visiting Professor: The Role of Elite Corruption in Today’s Illiberalism: Trump as “Trickster,” Why Trumpism is No Accident, and theThis talk, by social anthropologist and public policy professor Janine R. Wedel, examines how the activities of a novel breed of “shadow” or “influence elites” have helped corrode civic trust and fueled the surge in income inequality.  Partly as a result, many citizens in the United States and Europe (notably Poland and Hungary) have turned to demagogic figures who flout both the norms of the rigged system they seek to smash, and the Weltanschauung of the establishment. The talk will explore why people turn to them, Donald Trump’s role as “trickster,” and how Trump and other taboo-breaking, system-busting leaders govern once in power. 

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19 September, 2018

Research and ideas for a brighter future

In the wake of the election one can start to wonder what politics should really be about. What are the greatest challenges to our modern society and what can be done to overcome these, with a brighter

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