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Global Governance in a World of Change

23 November 2021, 6:15 pm–7:30 pm

Globe Sculpture - Flushing Meadows Corona Park, New York

We all know that global governance is not what it once was, but what was it and what is it now? Join us on 23 November for this GGI keynote lecture with Professor Michael Barnett.

This event is free.

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All

Availability

Yes

Cost

Free

Organiser

Julia Kreienkamp – UCL Global Governance Institute / Department of Political Science

We all know that global governance is not what it once was, but what was it and what is it now? Scholars of global governance have proposed various concepts and criteria to try and track the changes -- growing number of states, growing number of kinds of actors, growing number of areas to be governed, and so on. Often overlooked is that the very organization of governance has changed. When we talk about a shift from a world of states and their large international organizations to a myriad of global governance experiments such as public-private partnerships, we are talking about a change in the mode of global governance. Based on the recently released Global Governance in a World of Change (Cambridge University Press), edited by Michael Barnett, Jon Pevehouse, and Kal Raustiala, Michael Barnett discusses the relative value of seeing global governance as organized around hierarchical, networked, and market modes of governance, why there has been a shift from the former to the latter two, and what this means for the future of global governance. 

About the Speaker

Michael Barnett

University Professor of International Affairs and Political Science at George Washington University

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Michael Barnett is University Professor of International Affairs and Political Science at the George Washington University. His research interests span the Middle East, humanitarianism, global governance, global ethics, and the United Nations. Among his many books are Eyewitness to a Genocide: The United Nations and Rwanda; Dialogues in Arab Politics: Negotiations in Regional Order; Empire of Humanity: A History of Humanitarianism; Rules for the World: International Organizations in World Politics (with Martha Finnemore); Security Communities (co-edited with Emanuel Adler); Sacred Aid (co-edited with Janice Stein); Power and Global Governance (co-edited with Raymond Duvall); and Humanitarianism in Question (co-edited with Thomas Weiss). His most recent books include The Star and the Stripes: A History of the Foreign Policies of the American Jews; Paternalism Beyond Borders; the edited collection Humanitarianism and Human Rights: Worlds of Differences?; and, most recently, Global Governance in a World of Change (co-edited with Jon Pevehouse and Kal Raustiala).

A former Associate Editor of International Organization, he previously taught at the University of Minnesota, the University of Wisconsin, Macalester College, Wellesley College, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; was a visiting scholar at the New School for Social Research and the Dayan Center at Tel-Aviv University; and was a Visiting Professor at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. Professor Barnett is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the recipient of many grants and awards for his research. More about Michael Barnett

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