Events at the MPIfG

We live in a postneoliberal age, or so we often hear. The state again has transformative ambitions, guided by national security, SDG development, or clean industrialization priorities. Yet it faces one critical question: how to pay for transformation? [more]

In light of debates about the “return of the state,” the conference explores the idea that fragmentation has transformed and on the whole weakened public capacities for coherent and consequential responses to the social, economic, ecological, and political problems of our time. [more]

The European Union’s approach to market competition is undergoing significant changes. Originally enshrined in the treaties that built the Single European Market, the EU’s model emphasized neoliberal competition policies. Competition, now being “securitized” in the EU, is reshaped by geopolitical concerns rather than purely economic ones. As the EU was initially established as a peace project, how will the intertwining of market and security logics shape the EU going forward? [more]