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Gissurarson: Peace Through Trade

Hannes H. Gissurarson, Professor Emeritus of Politics at the University of Iceland, gave a talk on the conditions of peace at a conference held by the Catholic University of Ljubljana on 23 April 2024 where the audience included Lojze Peterle, … Continue reading

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Gissurarson: Government Needs Only 15% of GDP

Hannes H. Gissurarson, Professor Emeritus of Politics at the University of Iceland, gave a talk about the proper role of government at a meeting held by the Faculty of Economics at the University of Belgrade in Serbia on 22 April … Continue reading

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Gissurarson: Federation, Not Federal State

Hannes H. Gissurarson, Professor Emeritus in Politics at the University of Iceland, gave a keynote lecture at the Cultural Weekend of ECR Party, European Conservatives and Reformists Party, in Nicosia, Cyprus, on 31 March 2024. He described the relevance today … Continue reading

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Gissurarson: EU on the Wrong Track

Hannes H. Gissurarson, Professor Emeritus of Politics at the University of Icceland, gave a talk in Amsterdam on 12 March 2024 at a conference held by the Austrian Economics Centre and the Nederlands Instituut vor Praxeologie, about the EU in … Continue reading

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Gissurarson: The Failure of Universities in the West

Hannes H. Gissurarson, Professor Emeritus of Politics at the University of Iceland, was a guest in Gisli Freyr Valdorsson’s podcast, Thjodmal, on 4 March 2024. He said that Western universities had abandoned their traditional and proper purpose which was to … Continue reading

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Freedom Dinner 2023

Hannes H. Gissurarson, Professor Emeritus of Politics at the University of Iceland, first met Antony Fisher (later Sir Antony) in the autumn of 1980 when he invited Gissurarson and other participants at the Mont Pelerin Society meeting in Stanford to … Continue reading

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