Revisiting Weber’s Spirit of Capitalism
The world must live up to tough challenges today, and the study of collective ethics under capitalism has never been more relevant. To that end, the work of Max Weber can still guide our reflection.
“Zoomplomacy” in Practice
Videoconferencing has changed the face of diplomacy during the pandemic. As an emerging practice, it has also been the object of intense debate. What does it teach us about international cooperation?
To Un-govern?
In many respects, complexity makes the world difficult to govern. Ungovernable, even. But ungovernance is not absence of governance. It is a murky concept, sometimes undemocratic, often invisible.
Key Insight
“Just as continuous (obsessive and unstoppable) modernization is not a process leading to modernity, but the substance of modernity itself, so the incessant and permanently unfinished globalization is the essence of the new globality of the human condition.”
Zygmunt Bauman, 2001