The Jean Monnet Chair in EU External Economic Relations at OEI would like to invite you to Prof. Jeffrey Kopsteins talk on Wednesday, 30^th of April 2025, in the Seminarzentrum, Otto-von-Simson-Straße 26, L 115 at noon. He intends to talk about his new book The Assault on the State, written together with Steve Hanson.

 

Profile of Prof. Jeffrey Kopstein: https://faculty.sites.uci.edu/kopstein/

 

Abstract: Across  the world, in countries as diverse as Hungary, Israel, and the U.S.,  attacks on the modern state and its workforce are intensifying. These attacks are led by self-aggrandizing politicians who attempt to  seize control of the state for themselves and their cronies. What  replaces the modern state —professional  government agencies organized  under the rule of law— once it is fatally undermined is an earlier, more destructive form of politics: the rule of men. In a  lecture based on his new book with Stephen Hanson, The Assault on the State: How the Global Attack on Modern Government Endangers Our Future, Jeffrey Kopstein describes the dangers of state erosion and outlines a strategy that can reverse this destructive trend.