Past issues

Welcome to the first issue of 2024 of Global Dialogue! If last year was an experimentation period involving a steep learning curve, we are now glad to already have some new features prepared for this year. In each issue, we will feature new projects, partnerships, and innovative communication and dissemination strategies, while keeping the very essence and vocation of this magazine, that is, the commitment to public and global sociology. In the interview that opens this issue Sari Hanafi, former president of the ISA until 2023, offers us a fascinating conversation with Zhao Tingyang. Here this prominent Chinese intellectual reflects on some of his main theoretical contributions and shares his current interpretation of the crisis of liberal democracy. The next section, organised by Federico Neiburg, Isabelle Guérin, and Susana Narotzky addresses the ‘cost...