In today’s environment, what lessons can be learned from “The City of Man: A Declaration on World Democracy,” an initiative which Thomas Mann launched in 1940 together with Reinhold Niebuhr, Antonio Giuseppe Borgese, and others to outline their vision of a stable global system in which humanity would be the guiding principle for securing peace and social welfare.
On June 3, the American Council on Germany and Thomas Mann House hosted a virtual discussion on the future of multilateralism with Ambassador Nina Hachigian, the first Deputy Mayor for International Affairs of Los Angeles, and 2021 Thomas Mann Fellows Prof. Dr. Friedhelm Marx of the Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg and Prof. Dr. Michael Zürn of the Freie Universität Berlin; and moderated by attorney and civic leader Kimberly Marteau Emerson.