What determines the stability of the world today: values or deals? Why is the language of universal norms, rights, and morality working increasingly poorly as a means of persuasion, giving way to the logic of transactions and pragmatic exchanges? Is a new universalism possible under these conditions — not according to the patterns of the mid-twentieth century, but in some other form that has not yet taken shape? Sapere Aude discussed this on its YouTube channel with political scientist Vasily Zharkov, head of the Political Science major at FLAS University in Montenegro and associate professor at the European Humanities University, and we retell the most important parts of the conversation.

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