EU Views: Chandler Rosenberger
Name: Chandler Rosenberger
Nationality: United States
Occupation(s): Chair of the International and Global Studies Program at Brandeis University
Connection to Europe: Rosenberger is a historical sociologist specializing in the cultural foundations of politics and in the intellectual roots of political revolutions.From 1992 to 1994, he covered the collapse of Czechoslovakia and the war in Yugoslavia as a journalist and as a fellow of the Institute of Current World Affairs.
Date of interview: February 28, 2017
In this episode, Olya Yordanyan and Toria Rainey talk to Chandler Rosenberger about the emerging future in Europe. The conversation focusses on the different political cultures in Europe, different conceptions of nationalism, and the relationship between nationalism and democracy. Rosenberger shares his concern over the re-emergence in some states of an undemocratic and ethnic nationalism many thought had been put to rest after the “return to Europe” of the formerly communist nations of Eastern Europe. He describes the need to rethink the cultural and intellectual roots of the European project in order to reawaken a sense of Europe that people will want to belong to. The more successful politicians are in capturing the imagination of citizens, the more healthier the future of Europe will be.