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Global Discord: Values and Power in a Fractured World Order
19 January 2023, 6:15 pm–7:30 pm
Can the international economic and legal system survive today’s fractured geopolitics? On 19 January 2023, join us for a panel discussion on "Global Discord," a new book by Harvard research fellow and former central banker Paul Tucker. This event is free.
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Julia Kreienkamp
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Room 106Roberts BuildingTorrington PlaceLondonWC1E 7JEUnited Kingdom
Democracies are facing a drawn-out contest with authoritarian states that is entangling much of public policy with global security issues. In Global Discord, Paul Tucker lays out principles for how democracies can approach relations with China and other illiberal states without sacrificing their deepest political values or recklessly risking their safety.
Combining history, economics, and political and legal philosophy, Tucker offers a new account of international relations. Rejecting intellectual traditions going back to Hobbes, Kant and Grotius, and deploying instead ideas from David Hume, Bernard Williams and modern mechanism-design economists, Tucker describes a new kind of political realism that emphasizes power and interests without sidelining morality. Incentives must be aligned with values if institutions are to endure. The connecting tissue for a system of international cooperation, he argues, should be legitimacy, creating a world of concentric circles in which we cooperate more with those with whom we share the most and whom we fear the least. Avoiding wishful thinking about the security of our way of life, and drawing on three decades as a domestic and international policy maker, Tucker applies the book’s principles to the international monetary order, including the role of the U.S. dollar, trade and investment regimes, and the global financial system.
The event will feature a discussion with the author and a panel of three speakers: Richard Bellamy (Professor of Political Science at UCL), Jeff King (Professor of Law at UCL) and Juliet Samuel (Columnist at The Telegraph). Copies of the book will be for sale.
The event will be followed by a drinks reception
This event is co-hosted with the UCL Department of Political Science as part of the 'Policy & Practice' seminar series, and will be followed by a drinks reception.
About the Speakers
Paul Tucker
Research Fellow of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard Kennedy School
His other current activities include being a director at Swiss Re; a senior fellow at the Harvard’s Center for European Studies; President of the UK’s National Institute for Economic and Social Research; a Governor of the Ditchley Foundation; a director of the Financial Services Volunteer Corps, and a member of the Advisory Board for Yale’s Program on Financial Stability. From 2016 to 2021, he was the chair of the Systemic Risk Council, the independent body of former top central bankers, government officials and financial experts dedicated to a stable financial system.
Richard Bellamy (Discussant)
at at UCL Department of Political Science and School of Public Policy
Richard Bellamy is Professor of Political Science in the UCL Department of Political Science and School of Public Policy and a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA). Richard's research combines intellectual history, analytical legal and political philosophy and comparative politics. He has a particular interest in the issue of constitutionalism and democracy, both domestically – especially in the UK, and internationally, especially with regard to the EU. His latest publications include A Republican Europe of States: Cosmopolitanism, Intergovernmentalism and Democracy in the EU Cambridge University Press, 2019; (with Dario Castiglione) From Maastricht to Brexit: Democracy, Constitutionalism and Citizenship in the EU Rowman and Littlefield, 2019; and (with Sandra Kröger and Marta Lorimer) Flexible Europe: Differentiated Integration, Fairness and Democracy Bristol University Press, 2022.
Jeff King (Discussant)
at at UCL Faculty of Laws
Jeff King is Professor of Law in the UCL Faculty of Laws, a Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Oxford, Director of Research at the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law, and general co-editor of the Oxford Compendium of National Legal Responses to Covid-19. Jeff's research interests include UK and comparative public law (including international law), constitutional theory and socio-legal studies. He is particularly interested in the relationship between public law, democracy and social policy. He is currently working on the use and abuse of delegated powers, and on comparative legal responses to Covid-19, and is writing a book on the social dimension of the rule of law. He is also co-editing a Cambridge Handbook of Constitutional Theory with Prof Richard Bellamy, whose publication by Cambridge University Press is expected in 2023.
Juliet Samuel (Discussant)
at at The Telegraph
Juliet Samuel is a columnist at The Telegraph who covers politics, economics, foreign policy and technology. She previously covered finance and business for The Wall Street Journal and The Times.
David Coen (Chair)
at at UCL Department of Political Science and School of Public Policy
David Coen is Vice Dean International for the Faculty of Social Sciences, Professor of Public Policy at the Department of Political Science, and founding Director of the Global Governance Institute at University College London.
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