Internationalization

My interest in the topic of internationalization—or globalization—began with my return to Germany in 1995 and the emergence of the New World Order following the end of communism, as well as with the evolution of the European Community into the European Union. The first connections to the theory of democracy arose from a conference I organized at the MPIfG in 1997. Efforts to understand the impact of internationalization on national institutions went hand in hand with a growing focus on the structure of the emerging international order beyond Europe. My book Zwischen Globalismus und Demokratie (2021) and its English-language expansion, Taking Back Control? (2024), undertook to synthesize the two perspectives.