This year SID Netherlands' lecture series focuses on 'The role of the State in a Globalising World'. On 12 March René Cuperus, research fellow at the Wiardi Beckman Foundation, a think-thank for Dutch social democracy, delivered a lecture ‘All politics is domestic politics?!’. Lammert de Jong, former Dutch diplomat, reacted to the SID NL-lecture delivered by René Cuperus, providing a a different point of view in his paper ‘In Praise of Europeanization’. Is the world today more connected or rather disconnected? How shall the role of nation state be reconsidered? Are we global citizens?  Read Lammert de Jong's response to René Cuperus and add your comment.  Here

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