A recent article in El País by returning Visiting Professor to CEU’s Political Science Department, Julian Casanova (Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Zaragoza), discusses current socio-political and economic conflicts. After a post-Second World War period of growth and prosperity, a lately seen overhand attitude of the political and economic elite to negotiating capital-labor consensus is forcing protest out of existing institutional channels. The article envisions this process as a new and circuitous route back to the old culture of class confrontation that left Europe in ruins. A highly respected Spanish journalist and expert in contemporary politics, with his volume, A Short History of the Spanish Civil War soon to be published by I.B Tauris, Professor Casanova is member of the Editorial Committee of the journal Historia Social and member of the Advisary Board of The International Journal of Iberian Studies (Bradford, England) and Cuadernos de Historia de España (Buenos Aires, Argentina). He is also Visiting Professor in several prestigious universities of England, USA and South America. The article can be found here.
