October 19, 2006
Lecture 7:00-8:30 p.m. with reception to follow
Fenn Lounge
Carleton University
David Held
Graham Wallas Professor of Political Science
London School of Economics
Reframing Global Governance:
Apocalypse Soon or Reform
Seating is limited; contact the Political Science Department for information.
David Held will explore one of the greatest paradoxes of our time; that is, that the challenges we face are increasingly global in their form and scope and yet our political capacity to address these challenges is weak and diminishing. Climate change, nuclear proliferation and global poverty are the tip of the iceberg of global problems. Each one of these is serious; together, they constitute a major threat to the continuity of our familiar human arrangements. Could this be our final century? The lecture explores both the advantages globalisation has brought and the serious structural vulnerability it has created. Since the end of the Cold War, optimism has diminished about finding global leaders with global vision. In fact, surveying American and European politics today it is hard to find anyone with the vision and direction to reform global governance arrangements. The issues can be starkly posed as apocalypse soon or reform? The threat of apocalypse is real enough. Can we muster the resources for reform?
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