Forthcoming March 2024 London: Routledge 2024 Abstract Introduction abstract This chapter introduces the aim and the global challenge that the book intends to address, i.e., the fact that a convincing grand narrative has failed to materialize since the discrediting...
Two Planetary Perspectives and the Great Transformation in the 1970s and 1980s Abstract The book explores the two opposite planetary perspectives on a new economic-political world order that the Brandt Commission and the multinational corporations developed in the...
Abstract It is often taken for granted that modernity emerged in Europe and diffused from there across the world. This book questions that assumption and re-examines the question of European modernity in the light of world history. Bo Stråth and Peter Wagner...
Edward Elgar July 2016. Co-authored with Lars Magnusson Abstract The book examines the three historical master tales of Karl Marx, John Maynard Keynes and Friedrich Hayek, and questions their validity and relevance in today’s moment of global disorientation which...
Abstract Europe's Utopias of Peace explores attempts to create a lasting European peace in the aftermath of the Napoleonic wars and the two world wars. The book charts the 250 year cycle of violent European conflicts followed by new utopian formulations for peace....
The European Shadow of the Past and Future of the Present Martti Koskenniemi and Bo Stråth (eds), Creating Community and Ordering the World: The European Shadow of the Past and Future of the Present. Report from the Research Project "Europe between Restoration...
(Sweden's History 1830-1920). Stockholm: Norstedts 2012. 712 pp Abstract The focus of the book is on the emergence of the modern mass society under intensestruggles about how to shape the future. The period between 1830 and 1920 was the timebetween two major...
Contested Histories and Politics of Remembrance Abstract An examination of the role of history and memory is vital in order to better understand whythe grand design of a United Europe – with a common foreign policy and market yet enoughdiversity to allow for...
The hypocricy of democracy-through-market. London: Routledge 2010. Co-authored with Hagen Schulz-Forberg Abstract The Maastricht Treaty in 1992 was based on neoliberal ideas of a market-driven Europeaneconomy and democracy and continues to be seen as a new step...
Tensions and Contentions of a Concept Lars Magnusson and Bo Stråth (eds.), European Solidarities. Tensions and Contentions of a Concept. Brussels: PIE-Peter Lang 2007. Abstract The book discusses the tensions between a market Europe and a social Europe, between the...
