Event Highlights: Neoliberals and Direct Democracy in the European Union
This lecture – Demos Veto and Demos Exit: Neoliberals and Direct Democracy in the European Union – by Quinn Slobodian, Associate Professor of History at Wellesley College, took place on Friday, April 23, 2021. Slobodian describes the embrace of direct democracy by the political right in Europe, most notably in the Brexit process, as a weapon against the state, challenging the claim that neoliberalism is inherently ”anti-democratic.“ Andrei Mamolea, Assistant Professor of International Relations at BU’s Pardee School of Global Studies, responded.
Quinn Slobodian is a historian of modern German and international history with a focus on North-South politics, social movements, and the intellectual history of neoliberalism. His most recent book is Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism (Harvard University Press, 2018).