Rosi Braidotti is a prominent scholar of gender studies and founding Director of the Centre for the Humanities at Utrecht University. She has explored the notion of “nomadism”, which has become the key concept for the development of an extremely rich and original research, varying from poststructuralism, to the history of feminism, to ethics.

In this interview Ulrich Beck claim the necessity for an inclusive, cosmopolitan outlook capable of breaking “with the seductive insularity of national consciousness”.

The plight of migrants, the ‘globalisation’ of the human condition, poses again the question of solidarity and demands a response of planetary ambition and responsibility.

A day without foreigners. It may seem a macabre commercial for the xenophobic Italian Northern League party, but it is actually the slogan of the general strike that has been called on 1st March by the migrants’ communities in Italy and France.

In this series of events organised in partnership with the LSE Forum for European Philosophy we invite thought provokers thinkers and scholars to reflect on key questions concerning the status of citizenship, the relations between Europe and the rest of the world and the question of the status of the migrant to Europe. Can there be a genuinely transnational demos?

Susan George is an author, Board Chair of the Transnational Institute, and Honorary President of Attac-France. This article is part of the Transnational Institute’s ongoing research in EU Trade Policy.

Althusius’s societal federalism presents a ‘bottom-up’, dynamic, participatory, consensual, and solidarist alternative to the static federal model of the European Union.

Seyla Benhabib is a professor of political science and philosophy at Yale, and director of the program in Ethics, Politics, and Economics, and a well-known contemporary philosopher. She is the author of several books, most notably about the philosophers Hannah Arendt and Jürgen Habermas. Benhabib is well known for combining critical theory with feminist theory.

This conference is one of the first opportunities for citizens, civil society groups and academics to feed into the Commission’s thinking on democracy in Europe under Lisbon.

Climate change is not just an environmental issue – global warming affects social justice, poverty, and human rights. There are many discordant voices on how best to tackle climate change and reach a globally just agreement. Here we begin a series of confrontations by looking at the question of the carbon trading scheme, a system set up by the Kyoto protocol to allow companies to buy, sell, and trade pollution certificates.