Leviathan

In 2023, Leviathan journal celebrated its 50th anniversary. On this occasion, the first part of the article commemorates the founding and the founding editors of the journal. The founding editorial, which opened the first issue of the journal, is...

Social-ecological transformation has become an important concept in the face of profound planetary crises (loss of biodiversity, climate crisis). Recently, the needs for social scientific transformation research have become more clearly defined. We...

Unchallenged globalization seems to be a notion of the past. Instead of interdependence and integration, processes of deglobalization and decoupling currently capture our attention. We interpret this discursive decline of an idea previously dominant...

After preliminary remarks on the general crisis situation, the review essay discusses the latest literature on the Ukraine war, the geopolitical revival of Carl Schmitt and the short-circuiting from Schmitt to Dugin and Putin.

This article discusses political ideas of solidarity in the refugee solidarity movement in the FRG of the 1980s, which has received little attention so far. On the basis of archival material, three currents are discussed in which the tensions and...