The Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence is pleased to host: “Failing European Orders: Pathological Learning in the Past and Today,” a research lecture presented by Dr. Jürgen Neyer (European University Viadrina) introducing:

A book project that deals with the intertwined social and political crisis of the EU and promising ways of overcoming it. In its first part, the talk explains a theoretical approach which draws on a body of literature combining cybernetic and deliberative concepts ranging from Karl Deutsch to Jürgen Habermas. It focuses on the notion of pathological learning and integrates the concepts in a model of three successive phases of political crisis. The second part applies the model to a most-different-case design discussing insights from more than 2000 years of European history and infers a set of lessons about the conditions under which political orders have failed in the past. In its final part, those lessons are applied to the EU and used for identifying a set of measures that are likely to help overcoming its social and political crisis.

This online lecture is an activity of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence which is co-funded with a grant by the Erasmus + Programme of the European Union and by Carleton University.