Pierre Rosanvallon is a professor at the Collège de France and L’Ecole de Hautes Etudes en Science Sociales (Ehess), Paris. He also heads the Centre de Recherches Politiques Raymond Aron. Among his many books is The New Social Question: rethinking the welfare state (2000)

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An age of globalisation, terrorism, and geopolitical shifts also finds Europe at the end of three great historical cycles. Its thinkers seem bereft of creative, inspiring ideas. Europe, says the French thinker Pierre Rosanvallon, needs to reformulate a new idea of progress in the international order.