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SUMMARY:Socialism\, Socialists and the state in Western Europe from 1914 t
 o the present: a complex and ambiguous relationship - Mathieu Fulla (Scien
 ces Po Paris)\, Kalypso Nicolaïdis (University of Oxford)
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DESCRIPTION:Mathieu Fulla will present the outline of a forthcoming edited
  volume\, dealing with the complex relationship between socialism and the 
 state that took hold in a number of Western European countries. His book q
 uestions the widespread popular belief\, still frequently conveyed by the 
 medias\, that socialism simply means “statism”. In fact\, a scientific
  approach based on historical\, sociological and political science methods
  could dispel this misunderstanding and display a more complex history. In
  order to shed light on what largely remains a blind spot in the existing 
 scientific literature\, the contributors aim at connecting two key histori
 cal perspectives: the history of the Labour movement\, on the one hand\, a
 nd the history of the contemporary state in Western Europe\, on the other.
  From the 20th century to the present\, the Western European socialist org
 anisations – political parties\, trade unions and associations – maint
 ained an ambiguous relationship with the state. Some of their leaders argu
 ed that the socialist organisations should aim at “conquering” the sta
 te\, for this allow them to reform or transform capitalist society. In oth
 er cases\, the social-democratic parties’ grassroots as well as the trad
 e unions fiercely disapproved any regulations aiming to bolster state powe
 rs\, notably in the realm of the economy. The perspective adopted is trans
 national and comparative\, and the essays collected deal with various case
  studies\, from the three historical cradles of European Socialism (German
 y\, England and France) to less-known cases (Austria\, Greece\, Sweden\, N
 orway\, Spain\, Italy\, Belgium)\, most of them having played a prominent 
 role as a “vanguard model” over the 20th century.\n\nMathieu Fulla is 
 a faculty member in the Centre d’histoire de Sciences Po (CHSP). His pri
 ncipal research interests are concerned with the economic and political hi
 story of the West European Left in the 20th-21st centuries in a comparativ
 e and transnational perspective. His current research focuses on the compl
 ex and ambiguous relationships between the West European Socialists and th
 e State\, from the Great War to present time\, and on economic experts wor
 king for the British Labour Party and the French Socialist Party from the 
 1970s to the present.\nSpeakers:\nMathieu Fulla (Sciences Po Paris)\, Kaly
 pso Nicolaïdis (University of Oxford)
LOCATION:70 Woodstock Road (Seminar Room)\, 70 Woodstock Road OX2 6HR
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