37: Michael Barnett – Global Governance in an Age of Precarity

Professor Michael Barnett is University Professor of International Affairs and Political Science at the George Washington University. Michael is one of the leading International Relations scholars of his generation and a major figure in the field of humanitarianism, global governance, global ethics and the United Nations. He has set the coordinates for major debates in the field, including investigation of the sometimes positive, sometimes pernicious effects of international organisations on global politics, as well as bringing issues of institutional bias, privilege and power inequity to the fore when thinking about global governance. Among his many books are Eyewitness to a Genocide: The United Nations and Rwanda; Empire of Humanity: A History of Humanitarianism; Rules for the World: International Organizations in World Politics (with Martha Finnemore); and Power and Global Governance (co-edited with Raymond Duvall).

In this podcast we talk about humanitarian intervention, genocide, the liberal biases of the post-Cold War and whether global governance has reached its sell-by-date.

Michael's institutional profile can be found here. 

We also discussed:

‘Is Israel on the Precipice of Genocide?’ Political Violence at a Glance, 6 March 2023.

‘COVID-19 and the Sacrificial International Order’, International Organization, 2020.

‘Accountability and global governance: The view from paternalism’, Regulation & Governance, 2016.

Power in Global Governance, Cambridge University Press, 2005 (with Raymond Duvall).

36: Geoff Mann – It Was Not Supposed To End This Way

  Geoff Mann joins us to talk about the about the scale and depth of the civilizational challenge posed by the Anthropocene.

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