{"id":42791,"date":"2022-05-04T17:15:18","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T15:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.humboldtforum.org\/?post_type=event&p=42791"},"modified":"2022-05-20T12:26:25","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T10:26:25","slug":"another-marshall-plan","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.humboldtforum.org\/en\/programm\/termin\/discourse\/another-marshall-plan-42791\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Marshall Plan?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Three years after the end of the Second World War, the implementation of the Marshall Plan began in Europe. After the devastations of fascism, but also out of fear of a further spread of communism, the US government put everything into strengthening European societies economically \u2013 and invested gigantic sums in the continent west of the Iron Curtain. For in the interwar period, economic misery had contributed to the transformation of political extremism into mass movements.<\/p>\n

Washington\u2019s economic policy after 1945 was determined by the idea of conveying the US recipe for success to the Europeans: The idea was that high productivity and the development of a continental market would be followed by prosperity and democratic cohesion. Through economic strengthening, Western Europe was supposed to become a bulwark against communism.<\/p>\n

June 2022 marks the 75th anniversary of the speech by US Secretary of State George C. Marshall in which he proposed the plan later named after him. Yet the connection between prosperity, pluralism and democracy is still disputed today. Even in integrated economic communities, democracies have remained fragile entities. The populisms within the EU, but also the Ukraine war, prove that nationalism and authoritarianism have regained their attractiveness in Europe. But when it comes to the reconstruction of Ukraine or even a post-Putin Russia, the question arises: Have the expectations of the Marshall Plan really been fulfilled? Do we need a new Marshall Plan today and can it be a possible political blueprint or inspiration? A panel of experts debates.<\/p>\n

A cooperation of the Cluster of Excellence\u00a0SCRIPTS<\/a>, the\u00a0U.S. Embassy Berlin<\/a>, and the Humboldt Lab.<\/em><\/p>\n

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