Rapid advances in technology – e.g. artificial intelligence, the rise of the world’s largest technological companies, and autonomous driving – are leading to unprecedented changes in politics, society, and economics. At the same time, shock events in politics – e.g. the Brexit, the backlash against globalization, the rise of populism, the pandemic, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine – challenge liberal democracies and the global order. Against this background, in the focus group “Disruptions in Politics and Technology”, Carl von Linde Senior Fellow Prof. Eugénia da Conceição-Heldt and her team at the TUM School of Social Sciences and Technology investigate how disruptions happen in the national, European, and global spheres from an interdisciplinary perspective.
The main objectives of the project are to: a) provide a typology of disruptions; b) elaborate a theoretical framework to study disruptions from a multidimensional perspective; c) explain how, why and with what consequences political and technological disruptions occur at the national, European and international levels. To study disruptions systematically, Prof. Eugénia da Conceição-Heldt and her team will work together with renowned international political scientists, economists, historians, and engineers. The insights gained from the empirical analysis will enable us to map different patterns of disruptions from a multidisciplinary perspective and to understand what are the consequences of disruptions.
Heldt, Eugénia C.; Mello, Patrick A.; Novoselova, Anna; Ramon Serrano Oswald, Omar: Persistence Against the Odds: How Entrepreneurial Agents Helped the UN Joint Inspection Unit to Prevail. Global Policy 13 (2), 2022, 235-246 more…
Heldt, Eugénia C; Mello, Patrick A; Novoselova, Anna; Serrano Oswald, Omar Ramon: When Do International Organizations Engage in Agency Slack? A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of United Nations Institutions. Global Studies Quarterly 2 (3), 2022 more…
2021
Heldt, Eugenia C.; Dörfler, Thomas: Orchestrating private investors for development: How the World Bank revitalizes. Regulation & Governance 16 (4), 2021, 1382-1398 more…
Heldt, Eugénia C.; Herzog, Lisa: The Limits of Transparency: Expert Knowledge and Meaningful Accountability in Central Banking. Government and Opposition 57 (2), 2021, 217-232 more…
Heldt, Eugénia C.; Müller, Tony: Bringing Independence and Accountability Together: Mission Impossible for the European Central Bank? Journal of European Integration 44 (6), 2021, 837-853 more…
2019
The Oxford Handbook of Time and Politics. Oxford University Press, 2019 more…
