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Post by Admin on Oct 8, 2015 13:01:17 GMT
Dr. Francis Fukuyama discusses dysfunctions of American politics and what makes a nation thrive or fail, drawing from his book, Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy. Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalisation of Democracy: Amazon.co.uk: Francis Fukuyama: 9781846684364: Books Writing in The Wall Street Journal, David Gress called Francis Fukuyama's Origins of Political Order "magisterial in its learning and admirably immodest in its ambition." In The New York Times Book Review, Michael Lind described the book as "a major achievement by one of the leading public intellectuals of our time." And in The Washington Post, Gerard DeGrott exclaimed "this is a book that will be remembered. Bring on volume two." Volume two is finally here, completing the most important work of political thought in at least a generation. Taking up the essential question of how societies develop strong, impersonal, and accountable political institutions, Fukuyama follows the story from the French Revolution to the so-called Arab Spring and the deep dysfunctions of contemporary American politics. He examines the effects of corruption on governance, and why some societies have been successful at rooting it out. He explores the different legacies of colonialism in Latin America, Africa, and Asia, and offers a clear-eyed account of why some regions have thrived and developed more quickly than others. And he boldly reckons with the future of democracy in the face of a rising global middle class and entrenched political paralysis in the West. A sweeping, masterful account of the struggle to create a well-functioning modern state, Political Order and Political Decay is destined to be a classic.
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Post by Admin on Oct 9, 2015 12:57:38 GMT
On 9 March 2015 the Sir Michael Howard Centre hosted Professor Richard Overy for a lecture on the Second World War and the age of imperialism. Professor Overy discussed the major challenges faced by today's historians of the Second World War and how the age of imperialism best accounts for the war’s origins, course and consequences. Richard Overy is Professor of History at the University of Exeter. From 1980 to 2004 he taught at King's College, London, where he was made professor of Modern History in 1994. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (1977), Fellow of the British Academy (2000) and Fellow of King's College (2003). In 2001 he was awarded the Samuel Elliot Morison Prize of the Society for Military History for his contribution to the history of warfare. His most recent books are ‘The Bombing War: Europe 1939-1945’ (2013), ‘The Third Reich: A Chronicle’ (2010), ‘The Morbid Age: Britain between the Wars’ (2009), and ‘1939:Countdown to War’ (2009).
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Post by Admin on Oct 20, 2015 14:21:46 GMT
William M. Tsutsui, Professor of History and Associate Dean for International Studies, University of Kansas, speaks at the 2009 Summer Teacher Institute - Understanding the Global Economy: Bringing the World Market into your Classroom
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Post by Admin on Oct 23, 2015 14:16:14 GMT
The French economist Thomas Piketty (Paris School of Economics) discussed his new book, Capital in the Twenty-First Century at the Graduate Center. In this landmark work, Piketty argues that the main driver of inequality—the tendency of returns on capital to exceed the rate of economic growth—threatens to generate extreme inequalities that stir discontent and undermine democratic values. He calls for political action and policy intervention. Piketty’s thesis—that wealth concentrates towards the top when the rate of return on investments is greater than the rate of economic growth, leading to increasing inequalities and economic instability—added fresh fuel to on-going debates about the concentration of wealth and the growth of inequality in the United States and other liberal democracies. His book has been celebrated and denigrated with equal fervor.
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Post by Admin on Nov 6, 2015 9:15:06 GMT
This event will feature a discussion with Dr. Henry Kissinger highlighting his latest book, World Order. Grounded in Dr. Kissinger’s deep study of history and experience as national security advisor and secretary of state, World Order guides readers on a tour of the globe and offers Dr. Kissinger’s analysis of the twenty first century’s ultimate challenge: how to build a shared international order in a world of divergent historic perspectives, violent conflict, and ideological extremism. Copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event.
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