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Featured Event Author and International Lawyer, Laurent Cohen-Tanugi, Opens Book Tour at UC San Diego
In his new book, The Shape of the World to Come, Charting Geopolitics of a New Century, Laurent Cohen-Tanugi, a renowned author on international affairs, takes on globalization's many cheerleaders and detractors, who, in their narrow focus, have failed to recognize the full extent to which globalization has become a geopolitical phenomenon.
For better or for worse, globalization has become the most powerful force shaping the world's geopolitical landscape, whether it has meant integration or fragmentation, peace or war. The future partly depends on how the new economic giants such as China, India and others will make use of their power. It also depends on how well Western democracies can preserve their tenuous hold on leadership, cohesion, and the pursuit of the common good.
Offering an interpretive framework for thought and action, Cohen-Tanugi suggests how we should approach our new "multipolar" world. Cohen-Tanugi's point is not that the major trends of economic globalization, technological revolution, regional integration, and democratic progress are no longer at work. His argument is that economic globalization exists in a complex dialectic with the traditional geopolitics it has ironically helped to revive.
Laurent Cohen-Tanugi will open his U.S. book tour at UC San Diego. The IICAS European Studies Speaker Series will host two events on Wednesday, October 15, 2008 with Cohen-Tanugi. An evening lecture, at 7 p.m., in Hojel Auditorium, where he will discuss his new book, and a faculty and student focused afternoon lecture, at 12 p.m., in ERC 115.
Laurent Cohen-Tanugi is a Paris-based international lawyer, public intellectual, and a recognized expert in European and transatlantic affairs and international relations. He has published several books, including most recently An Alliance at Risk: The United States and Europe Since September 11. He was recently appointed by the French government to lead a task-force on "Europe in the Global Economy" ahead of the French presidency of the European Union.
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| 2008-2009 IICAS Upcoming Events
IICAS is pleased to promote research, discussion and information exchange on international, comparative, and cross regional topics through the continuation of the IICAS speaker series in International Law, European Studies, Project on International Affairs, Middle East Studies, South Asian Studies, and America and the World.
Please mark your calendar and join us for these exciting upcoming events. September Events: Sept. 26-27, 2008
Media Systems in Comparative Perspective Workshop
ERC 115, 9/26: 9:00 am to 5:00 pm, 9/27: 9:30 am to 12:45 pm. Limited seating, please RSVP to: iicas-events@ucsd.edu
Sept. 30, 2008
Dr. David Stasavage, New York University, "The Conscription of Wealth: Mass Warfare and the Demand for Progressive Taxation"
SSB 107 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm, Project on International Affairs Speaker Series. More
October Events:
Oct. 7, 2008
Arab Film Series: "West Beirut," Professor Michael Provence, UC San Diego
Robinson Auditorium 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm, Middle East Studies Speaker Series, co-sponsored by San Diego State University. More
Oct. 15, 2008
Laurent Cohen-Tanugi, Author, "The Shape of the World to Come, Charting the Geopolitics of a New Century"
ERC 115, 12:00 - 1:30 pm, European Studies Speaker Series. Faculty and student focused lecture. Limited seating, please RSVP to: iicas-events@ucsd.edu. More
Oct. 15, 2008
Laurent Cohen-Tanugi, Author, "The Shape of the World to Come, Charting the Geopolitics of a New Century"
IOA Hojel Auditorium, 7:00 - 8:30 pm, European Studies Speaker Series. General public lecture. More
Oct. 30, 2008
Professor Naomi Roht-Arriaza, UC Hastings College of Law
Cal-West, 12:10 pm, International Law Speaker Series, jointly with the International Legal Studies Program, California Western School of Law. More |
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