Inspiration

An overview of protest movements of the past decades – and what they managed to achieve with Isabel Ortiz, Sara Burke, Mohamed Berrada and Hernán Saenz Cortés' World Protests. A Study of Key Protest Issues in the 21st Century, reviewed by Ania Skrzypek,

Gérard Fuchs begins his book with a pessimistic observation: in France, just as in many other countries all over the world, the living conditions of each subsequent generation deteriorate. Where, therefore, should we seek the hope to which the author refers in the second part of his book's title? Who can bring this hope about, and how?

In their book Social Policy and the Eurocrisis: Quo Vadis Social Europe, Amandine Crespy and Georg Menz proclaimed in 2015 that "Social Europe is dead". Seven years later, Crespy's book The European Social Question – Tackling Key Controversies dives deep into the past, present, and future of the EU's social dimension – and finds some signs of life.