Contributor(s): Professor Michael Cox | Ahead of the upcoming Dahrendorf Symposium in November 2011, Mick Cox, Professor of International Relations and co-Director of the IDEAS Research Centre at LSE explains how shifts in global power and wealth will both challenge the idea of Europe and provide a platform from which it might escape its current crisis mode.

Contributor(s): Professor Bernhard Lorentz, Professor Helmut Anheier, Professor Damian Chalmers | Professor Bernhard Lorentz, president of German foundation Stiftung Mercator; Professor Helmut Anheier, Dean of the Hertie School, Berlin; and Professor Damian Chalmers, head of the European Institute at LSE explain the inspiration behind and aims for the upcoming Dahrendorf Symposium, to be held in Berlin 9-10 November 2011.

Contributor(s): Damian Chalmers, Helmut Anheier, Hakan Seckinelgin, Michael Cox, Alina Mungiu-Pippidi, Chetan Bhatt, Anke Hassel | In November 2011, the first Dahrendorf Symposium will be held in Berlin. Supported by Stiftung Mercator, and jointly organised by LSE and the Hertie School of Governance, the symposium aims is to bring together scholars to discuss the future of Europe.