Between dream and tragedy: Europe’s story after 1989
Luke Cooper
6 episodes
7 months ago
This podcast offers numerous certain insightful views of the making of the EU and the challenges Europe confronted during this period of three decades. Through events such as the post-communist transition, the violent collapse of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, or the creation of the single market in Maastricht, to the economic and financial crises of the late 2000s, Luke Cooper interviews actors who were involved as well as analysts studying these events. It is at moments a riveting listen.
Dr Luke Cooper, is an academic and scholar of international relations and politics from the United Kingdom, he is also the co-host of the “Another Europe” podcast. Luke was a Europe’s Futures Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna in 2018-2019. One of the projects that he worked on during his tenure was this series on Europe after 1989.
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This podcast offers numerous certain insightful views of the making of the EU and the challenges Europe confronted during this period of three decades. Through events such as the post-communist transition, the violent collapse of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, or the creation of the single market in Maastricht, to the economic and financial crises of the late 2000s, Luke Cooper interviews actors who were involved as well as analysts studying these events. It is at moments a riveting listen.
Dr Luke Cooper, is an academic and scholar of international relations and politics from the United Kingdom, he is also the co-host of the “Another Europe” podcast. Luke was a Europe’s Futures Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna in 2018-2019. One of the projects that he worked on during his tenure was this series on Europe after 1989.
Between dream and tragedy: Europe’s story after 1989
23 minutes 3 seconds
4 years ago
Shock Therapy
The dream seemed over in a flash. After the triumph of 1989 came the disappointment and hardships of the 1990s. In the second episode of the series, Luke Cooper explains how a Western economic experiment in free markets came crushing down in the post-communist world with often disastrous results. Could it have gone differently or was the break with statist economics always likely to push the pendulum back too far in the other direction?
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Dr Luke Cooper is an associate researcher and consultant at LSE IDEAS, the foreign policy think tank of the London School of Economics. He was previously a visiting fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM), Europe’s Futures programme (2018 – 2019). His book, Authoritarian Contagion, will be published by Bristol University Press in June 2021. He is the co-founder of Another Europe Is Possible and co-host of the Another Europe podcase.
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Between Dream and Tragedy is hosted by the Europe’s Futures programme at the IWM and was supported by the ERSTE Foundation and the European Cultural Foundation. For more information on Europe’s Futures go to EuropesFutures.EU.
Between dream and tragedy: Europe’s story after 1989
This podcast offers numerous certain insightful views of the making of the EU and the challenges Europe confronted during this period of three decades. Through events such as the post-communist transition, the violent collapse of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, or the creation of the single market in Maastricht, to the economic and financial crises of the late 2000s, Luke Cooper interviews actors who were involved as well as analysts studying these events. It is at moments a riveting listen.
Dr Luke Cooper, is an academic and scholar of international relations and politics from the United Kingdom, he is also the co-host of the “Another Europe” podcast. Luke was a Europe’s Futures Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna in 2018-2019. One of the projects that he worked on during his tenure was this series on Europe after 1989.
