Fudan-LSE Lecture Series No.60

复旦—LSE讲座系列第60期

Title/题目: 

The Welfare State: Challenges of Sustainability in Times of New Uncertainty

福利国家：新不确定性时代的可持续性挑战

Speaker/主讲人: 

Prof. Stein Kuhnle, University of Bergen

Stein Kuhnle教授卑尔根大学

Host/主持人: 

Prof. Yijia Jing, Fudan IGPP

敬乂嘉教授复旦全球公共政策研究院 

Time/时间: 

12:00-13:20, October 17th2024

2024年10月17日12:00-13:20

Venue/地点: 

Room 805E, 8th Floor，West Sub-building of Guanghua Towers

光华楼西辅楼8楼805E会议室

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主讲人介绍/ The Speaker：

Stein Kuhnle is Professor of Comparative Politics, University of Bergen, since 1982. He chaired the Department of Comparative Politics for a total of 14 years during 1983-2005. During 2006-2014, he was Professor of Comparative Social Policy at the Hertie School, The University of Governance, Berlin, Germany. He has been a Visiting Scholar at universities in the USA, UK, Australia, Germany, Italy, China and Japan. He has published widely, in many languages, in the field of comparative welfare state studies. His publications include Survival of the European Welfare State (ed.; 2000); Normative Foundations of the Welfare State: The Nordic Experience (ed. with N.Kildal; Routledge, 2005); Globalizing Welfare: An Evolving Asian-European Dialogue (ed. with P. Selle, S. Hort, 2019).

讲座内容/ Abstract: 

It is nothing new that ‘the welfare state’ faces serious challenges. But new challenges due to a variety of new security issues and new dimensions of uncertainty have appeared in recent years due to wars, pandemic, geo-political tensions on top of a demographic megatrend towards ageing populations. Why should a state be socially active? What were historical reasons for developing welfare states? What are the economic, political and moral dimensions of welfare state sustainability? Can national welfare states be sustained in a globalized world without reinforced international political cooperation, coordination and regulation?