Peter J. Verovšek is Senior Assistant Professor in the History and Theory of European Integration at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. He is the author of Jürgen Habermas: Public Intellectual and Engaged Critical Theorist (Columbia University Press, 2026) and Memory and the Future of Europe: Rupture and Integration in the Wake of Total War (Manchester University Press, 2020). He has published widely on issues in social and political theory, the history of twentieth century political thought, collective memory studies and European integration.