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David Held will discuss what he calls the paradox of our times: the issues with which our societies are confronted grow more and more complex, while the means for addressing these problems are weak and insufficient. Held's thesis is illustrated by a discussion of climate change, nuclear proliferation, and the difficulties of reaching the millennium development goals. Underpinning these difficulties are weaknesses in the multilateral order itself, which go back not just to 1945, but also to the foundation of the state system itself. This lecture will explore these difficulties and the challenge they represent for thinking about the meaning of governance and democracy today. The lecture ends with a defence of citizenship and democracy on a multilevel and multilayered basis.
David J. A. Held is Graham Wallas Professor of Political Science at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Currently, he is Visiting Professor at the Institut d`études politiques (Sciences Po) in Paris. Since 1984, David Held is Director of Polity Press. Among his recent publications are: Global Inequality: Patterns and Explanations, with A. Kaya, (2006) and Globalization Theory, with A. McGrew (2007). His study Globalization/Anti-Globalization, co-authored with Anthony McGrew (2002, second fully revised edition 2007), is being translated into Spanish, French, Chinese and many other languages.
WZB "Lectures on Democracy" are organized by John Keane and Wolfgang Merkel
Information on participating / attending:
Please reply by November 22, 2007 to Hannelore Trautmann: ht@wzb.eu; fax: 030-25 49 16 80
Date:
11/27/2007 18:00 - 11/27/2007 21:00
Event venue:
Reichpietschufer 50, Room A 300
10785 Berlin
Berlin
Germany
Target group:
Journalists, Scientists and scholars
Email address:
Relevance:
transregional, national
Subject areas:
History / archaeology, Law, Politics, Social studies
Types of events:
Entry:
10/16/2007
Sender/author:
Dr. Paul Stoop
Department:
Presse- und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit
Event is free:
yes
Language of the text:
English
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event21697
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