Jonathan White is Deputy Head of the European Institute and Professor in Politics at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is the author of In the Long Run: The Future as a Political Idea.
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25.02.2026
Politics of the Future in an Age of Emergencies
In our era of relentless crises, politics is trapped in the present, and the future seems to be closing in. The collective act of imagining new possibilities – a core feature of modern democracy – has given way to a politics based on opinion polls, short-term market projections, and economic indicators. Can the EU, itself the expression of a technocratic project, revive a politics of community oriented towards the world to come? A conversation between Elena Polivtseva and Jonathan White, author of In the Long Run: The Future as a Political Idea.
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