
Roland Benedikter, PhD
Visiting Scholar, The Europe Center
616 Serra Street
Encina Hall C241
Stanford, CA 94305-6055
Roland Benedikter, Dott. Dr. Dr. Dr., is European Foundation Fellow 2009-2013, in residence at the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies of the University of California at Santa Barbara, with duties as the European Foundations Research Professor of Political Sociology. His main field of interest is the multidimensional analysis of what he calls the current "Global Systemic Shift", which he tries to understand by bringing together the six typological discourses (and systemic order patterns) of Politics, Economy, Culture, Religion, Technology and Demography. Roland is currently working on two major book projects: One about the "Global Systemic Shift", and one about the "Contemporary Cultural Psychology of the West", the latter comparing culturo-political trends in the European and American hemispheres. With both projects he is also involved in European Policy Advice.
Publications
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- Neuroculture: How to keep ethical pace with the current “deep” transformations through neurotechnology?
James Giordano, PhD, Roland Benedikter
The Leftist Review vol. March 2012 (2012)
- Social Design for Multiethnic Areas
Roland Benedikter
Politika. Year Book of the South Tyrolean Association of Political Science, Bolzano 2012 (2012)
- The Himalayas Can Learn from the Alps. Where Is Tibet Heading? Europe Could Provide a Viable Model of Pacification
Roland Benedikter
The National Interest, Washington DC (2012)

- The Postmodern Mind. A Re-Consideration of John Ashbery's: "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror" (1975) from the Viewpoint of an Interdisciplinary History of Ideas
Roland Benedikter, Judith Hilber
Open Journal of Philosophy vol. 2, 1/2012 (2012)

- The USA in the Presidential Election year 2012: A Divided Society?
Roland Benedikter
Berliner Debatte Initial vol. 23 (2012)
Events & Presentations
European and Global Economic Crisis Series: "The Italian Economic and Social Crisis"
November 18, 2011 FSI Stanford, The Europe Center Seminar Series
Roland Benedikter
Money, Politics and the Future of Globalization
July 3, 2011 Lecture
Roland Benedikter
Social Banking and Social Finance: Answers to the Financial Crisis?
April 6, 2011 FSI Stanford, The Europe Center Seminar
Roland Benedikter
Audio transcript available
Ethnic Conflict Resolution in the 21st Century: A Functioning Model from Europe
February 16, 2011 FSI Stanford, The Europe Center Seminar
Roland Benedikter
Audio transcript available




