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As part of our Let’s Talk Democracy series with Alexander Görlach, journalist and adjunct professor for democratic theory at NYU Gallatin School, we welcome historian Thomas Weber for a conversation on the forces shaping democracy in times of crisis. Drawing on his research into the “world wars of disinformation and demagoguery” past and present, we will explore the parallels between the drivers of democratic breakdown in the interwar years and the pressures democracies face today. The discussion will look at how new technologies, social media bots, and cyberwarfare influence public perception, political stability, and democratic resilience.
Biographies
Thomas Weber is Professor of History and International Affairs as well as the founding Director of the Centre of Global Security and Governance at the University of Aberdeen. He also is a Visiting Fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University; an Associate Fellow of the Center for Advanced Security, Strategic and Integration Studies at the University of Bonn; and a Member of the Security History Network at Utrecht University. His expertise lies in European, international, and global political history from the 19th century to the present. His books include ‘Becoming Hitler: The Making of a Nazi’ (2017) and the forthcoming ‘Wenn dasGestern anklopft: Weimar und die Wiederkehr der Geschichte’
Alexander Görlach is an adjunct professor to NYU Gallatin School where he teaches democratic theory. Prior to that he had various positions as visiting scholar and as fellow at Harvard University in the United States, and Cambridge University and Oxford University in the United Kingdom. He is a senior fellow to the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs in New York and a senior advisor to the Berggruen Institute in Los Angeles.
Alexander holds a ThD in comparative religion and a PhD in linguistics. His academic interests include democratic theory, politics and religion, and theories of secularism, pluralism and cosmopolitanism. In the academic year 2017-18 he was a visiting scholar at National Taiwan University and City University Hongkong. Since then he focuses on the rise of China and what it means for the democracies in East Asia.
Alexander Görlach is an honorary professor of ethics and theology at Leuphana University in Lüneburg, Germany. Alexander Görlach is the founder of the debate-magazine The European, that he also ran as its editor in chief from 2009 to 2015.
Today he serves as an op-ed contributor to the New York Times, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, and the South China Morning Post. He is a columnist to the business magazine Wirtschaftswoche, Deutsche Welle and Focus Online. He is a frequent commentator on German News Channel WeLT TV.
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As part of our Let’s Talk Democracy series with Alexander Görlach, journalist and adjunct professor for democratic theory at NYU Gallatin School, we welcome historian Thomas Weber for a conversation on the forces shaping democracy in times of crisis. Drawing on his research into the “world wars of disinformation and demagoguery” past and present, we will explore the parallels between the drivers of democratic breakdown in the interwar years and the pressures democracies face today. The discussion will look at how new technologies, social media bots, and cyberwarfare influence public perception, political stability, and democratic resilience.
Biographies
Thomas Weber is Professor of History and International Affairs as well as the founding Director of the Centre of Global Security and Governance at the University of Aberdeen. He also is a Visiting Fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University; an Associate Fellow of the Center for Advanced Security, Strategic and Integration Studies at the University of Bonn; and a Member of the Security History Network at Utrecht University. His expertise lies in European, international, and global political history from the 19th century to the present. His books include ‘Becoming Hitler: The Making of a Nazi’ (2017) and the forthcoming ‘Wenn dasGestern anklopft: Weimar und die Wiederkehr der Geschichte’
Alexander Görlach is an adjunct professor to NYU Gallatin School where he teaches democratic theory. Prior to that he had various positions as visiting scholar and as fellow at Harvard University in the United States, and Cambridge University and Oxford University in the United Kingdom. He is a senior fellow to the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs in New York and a senior advisor to the Berggruen Institute in Los Angeles.
Alexander holds a ThD in comparative religion and a PhD in linguistics. His academic interests include democratic theory, politics and religion, and theories of secularism, pluralism and cosmopolitanism. In the academic year 2017-18 he was a visiting scholar at National Taiwan University and City University Hongkong. Since then he focuses on the rise of China and what it means for the democracies in East Asia.
Alexander Görlach is an honorary professor of ethics and theology at Leuphana University in Lüneburg, Germany. Alexander Görlach is the founder of the debate-magazine The European, that he also ran as its editor in chief from 2009 to 2015.
Today he serves as an op-ed contributor to the New York Times, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, and the South China Morning Post. He is a columnist to the business magazine Wirtschaftswoche, Deutsche Welle and Focus Online. He is a frequent commentator on German News Channel WeLT TV.
As part of our Let’s Talk Democracy series with Alexander Görlach, journalist and adjunct professor for democratic theory at NYU Gallatin School, we welcome historian Thomas Weber for a conversation on the forces shaping democracy in times of crisis. Drawing on his research into the “world wars of disinformation and demagoguery” past and present, we will explore the parallels between the drivers of democratic breakdown in the interwar years and the pressures democracies face today. The discussion will look at how new technologies, social media bots, and cyberwarfare influence public perception, political stability, and democratic resilience.
Biographies
Thomas Weber is Professor of History and International Affairs as well as the founding Director of the Centre of Global Security and Governance at the University of Aberdeen. He also is a Visiting Fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University; an Associate Fellow of the Center for Advanced Security, Strategic and Integration Studies at the University of Bonn; and a Member of the Security History Network at Utrecht University. His expertise lies in European, international, and global political history from the 19th century to the present. His books include ‘Becoming Hitler: The Making of a Nazi’ (2017) and the forthcoming ‘Wenn dasGestern anklopft: Weimar und die Wiederkehr der Geschichte’
Alexander Görlach is an adjunct professor to NYU Gallatin School where he teaches democratic theory. Prior to that he had various positions as visiting scholar and as fellow at Harvard University in the United States, and Cambridge University and Oxford University in the United Kingdom. He is a senior fellow to the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs in New York and a senior advisor to the Berggruen Institute in Los Angeles.
Alexander holds a ThD in comparative religion and a PhD in linguistics. His academic interests include democratic theory, politics and religion, and theories of secularism, pluralism and cosmopolitanism. In the academic year 2017-18 he was a visiting scholar at National Taiwan University and City University Hongkong. Since then he focuses on the rise of China and what it means for the democracies in East Asia.
Alexander Görlach is an honorary professor of ethics and theology at Leuphana University in Lüneburg, Germany. Alexander Görlach is the founder of the debate-magazine The European, that he also ran as its editor in chief from 2009 to 2015.
Today he serves as an op-ed contributor to the New York Times, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, and the South China Morning Post. He is a columnist to the business magazine Wirtschaftswoche, Deutsche Welle and Focus Online. He is a frequent commentator on German News Channel WeLT TV.
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