Academy Lecture: The Enemy Within: What should we understand about transatlantic illiberal-liberal divisions?

Read Daniel Hamilton's Academy Lecture here.

A widening divide threatens to crack the very foundation of the transatlantic relationship. This cleavage is not between the United States and Europe, it is between transatlantic liberals and illiberals. European and American partisans each identify more with their soulmates on the other side of the Atlantic than with their political opponents at home. U.S. president Donald Trump personifies this divide, but these divisions did not begin with him and will not end when he leaves office. 

Where did these divisions come from? How have U.S. illiberals and liberals shaped European debates? How have they been influenced by European thinkers and practitioners? What should we understand about transatlantic illiberal-liberal divisions? 

For the first event in our new series, the Robert Bosch Academy Lectures, we welcome Dan Hamilton to explore the origins and consequences of this divide.  

Following his lecture, Natalia Gavrilița will join him for a fireside chat to reflect on the evening's guiding question. 

Following the conversation, we invite you to a reception to continue the discussion. 

Grzegorz Nocko, Director of the Robert Bosch Academy, will provide opening remarks.