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SUMMARY:Fascism and Democracy Today: What Use is the Study of History in t
 he Current Crisis? - Mark Mazower\, Ira B. Wallach Professor of History\, 
 Columbia University
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DESCRIPTION:This lecture by Mark Mazower explores how historians have unde
 rstood the phenomenon of fascism and asks what use\, if any\, the resultin
 g insights are in helping us understand the nature of the current politica
 l and economic crisis in Europe. It focuses on the connections and differe
 nces between fascism then and now\, asks what function historical memory p
 lays in shaping political trends and  analyses the usefulness of the conce
 pt of a crisis of democracy in making sense of trends in the European Unio
 n.\n\nMark Mazower is Ira B. Wallach Professor of History at Columbia Univ
 ersity. He is the author of several books on the history of Greece\, moder
 n Europe and international affairs\, most recently 'Governing the World: t
 he History of an Idea' (Penguin\, 2012). He comments regularly on internat
 ional affairs for the Financial Times and the Guardian\, and reviews for t
 he TLS\, the New York Times\, the LRB and other journals.
LOCATION:Faculty of English\, West Road (Room GR06/07)
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