The Hannah Arendt Center was established at the University of Bucharest in December 2017. The center is dedicated to studying the nature, methods, and consequences of totalitarian ideologies, movements, and revolutions in the twentieth century and populist authoritarianism’s resurrection in the twenty-first one. Its vision is inspired by thinkers such as Hannah Arendt, Raymond Aron, Isaiah Berlin, Robert Conquest, Tony Judt, Leszek Kołakowski, and Monica Lovinescu. The Hannah Arendt Center has a double mission: a cognitive one, dealing with the comparative research of the totalitarian phenomenon in its various hypostases, and a normative one, dealing with exploring the risk of totalitarian recrudescence in today’s world.
