Yascha Mounk

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Yascha Mounk (2017)

Yascha Mounk (* 1982 in Munich ) is a German-American political scientist who works as a lecturer at Harvard University in Boston. He is Senior Fellow at the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University , and Associate Professor of the Practice at the School of Advanced International Studies at the same university.

As a freelance publicist , he writes for the New York Times , The Wall Street Journal , Foreign Affairs , Slate and Zeit Online, among others . He also maintains a podcast "The Good Fight". Mounk became a US citizen in 2017.

Early years

Yascha Mounk is the son of a Jew who left Poland with her parents in 1969 due to a wave of purges in the Communist Party . He grew up in various small towns in Germany. Due to various experiences, he always felt like a stranger in his country of birth, and although German was his mother tongue, he never saw himself as a “real German” accepted by his peers.

SPD membership

After Yascha Mounk joined the SPD at the age of 13 , he left the SPD in 2015 with an open letter to the SPD chairman Sigmar Gabriel . The reasons he named included the unwillingness of German institutions to help refugees, the passive attitude of leading SPD exponents and parts of the party during the Crimean crisis in 2014 and the SPD's policy on Greece , which he called a “betrayal of the social democratic dream of a united Europe”.

Emigration to the USA

In 2005, Mounk went to the United States to study and earned a Ph.D. in Political Science. When he accepted American citizenship in March 2017, he justified this step by saying, among other things, that this would enable him to better counter the election of Donald Trump as President of the USA.

Positions

nationalism

In an interview in the Süddeutsche Zeitung in February 2018, Mounk stated that he had changed his position on nationalism . While he used to regard this as a relic of the past that had to be overcome, he now spoke out in favor of “inclusive nationalism”, since otherwise the fallow field of the national would be occupied by people who had an aggressive nationalism in mind. In the Tagesthemen he said that “we” are “daring a historically unique experiment, namely to transform a mono-ethnic and monocultural democracy into a multi-ethnic one”. In the Haaretz he advised the “liberal camp” to adopt the nationalism so understood, so that it would be easier for people to live in a multiethnic and democratic society. “The key” to this, he notes with “an ironic smile”, is adopting the populist demand that people and nations should regain the feeling of being in control of their lives or their fate.

migration

On the issue of migration, Mounk expressly welcomes immigration from foreign cultures to Europe and the changes associated with it. Opponents of a multiethnic society who react with hatred should be punished by the state for hate crimes , according to Mounk .

“It is a historically unique experiment to take a democracy that had this mono-ethnic concept of itself and transform it into a multi-ethnic society.

Now there are large sections of the population, including myself, who welcome this, who think it's wonderful, who think it's right. But of course there are also parts of society who are afraid and then rebel against it. We have to openly acknowledge that. "

- Yascha Mounk : Deutschlandfunk

“An experiment is running in Western Europe that is unique in the history of migration: countries that have defined themselves as mono-ethnic, mono-cultural and mono-religious nations must change their identity. We don't know if it works, we just know that it has to work. "

- Yascha Mounk : Der Spiegel 40/2015

European Union

Mounk recommends addressing the EU's democratic deficit by giving the European Parliament “much more power” over the European Council and the EU Commission, while at the same time giving back to the member states decisions that could just as easily be made in national parliaments. The idea of ​​an “ever closer union” should be abandoned.

Fonts

  • Stranger in My Own Country. A Jewish Family in Modern Germany. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York 2014, ISBN 0-374-53553-1
  • The Age of Responsibility: Luck, Choice and the Welfare State . Harvard University Press, 2017, ISBN 978-0-674-23767-4
  • The People vs. Democracy: Why Our Freedom Is in Danger and How to Save It. Harvard University Press, 2018, ISBN 978-0-674-97682-5
    • The collapse of democracy. How populism threatens the rule of law. Droemer, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-426-27735-5

Essays

Interviews

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Yascha Mounk: Stavros Niarchos Foundation SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins. Retrieved January 22, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Yascha Mounk: How Did I Celebrate Becoming American? Protesting Trump . New York Times . March 24, 2017. Retrieved September 26, 2017.
  3. ^ Stranger in My Own Country: A Jewish Family in Modern Germany , jewishbookcouncil.org
  4. ↑ I am resigning from the SPD , zeit.de, July 15, 2015
  5. ↑ Waarom ik uit de SPD stap , dewereldmorgen.be, July 17, 2015
  6. ↑ How Did I Celebrate Becoming American? Protesting Trump , nytimes.com, March 24, 2017
  7. ↑ "Liberal democracy is falling apart" , sueddeutsche.de, February 15, 2018
  8. ↑ Broadcast on February 20, 2018 , Tagesthemen / ARD-aktuell , February 20, 2018, from minute 24:45
  9. ↑ Does the Political Scientist Who Foresaw the Trump Era Still Believe Democracy Has a Future? / Memento at archive.is , Anshel Pfeffer, Haaretz , March 29, 2017; “ The key, says Mounk with an ironic smile, is in the slogan often used by populists, also popular among Brexit supporters: to give people a feeling they have a control over their lives and that your own nation has control over its destiny. In order for people to feel that, they have to be convinced that they can live in a multi-ethnic and democratic society and still be better off materially and the liberal camp must learn how to embrace nationalism. ”
  10. ↑ Yascha Mounk - Press Club from July 8, 2018. Accessed August 3, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Deutschlandfunk: POLITIKWISSENSCHAFTLER YASCHA MOUNK The prophet of the downfall of democracy
  12. ↑ "Unique Experiment" . In: Der Spiegel . No. 40 , 2015, p. 126 ( online ).
  13. ↑ Yascha Mounk: Only radical reforms can save the EU. In: Zeit Online . February 1, 2020, accessed February 9, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Mounk, Yascha
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American and German historian and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich