Interview between Professor Ira Katznelson and Cordier Fellow Samir Awad
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Introduction
Question
1
What has changed? When you were a student at Columbia College, you were a radical,
probably, and now you are lecturing students on pluralism and liberalism. What
has changed!?
Question
2
What does this liberal tradition have to offer the rest of the world, outside
of western europe and america?
Question
3
Is the liberal tradition more focused, more interested in the relationship between
the individual and the state or between the society and the state - the collectivity
of individuals - and is there a way to indroduce community rights, community
representation, into the mix?
Question
4
Is liberalism becoming hegemonic?
Question
5
Does a liberal democracy have to be a capitalist democracy?
Question
6
Do you agree that what is happening now through a process called democraticization
of the world is that the procedural structure of a democracy is there, but not
the liberal content?