Saturday, January 25, 2014

David Held - Gridlock: Why Global Cooperation is Failing

"This lecture focuses on why international negotiations on pressing global issues are increasingly stalling in the face of growing differences among national interests, strident voices of leading and new emerging powers, and the sheer complexity involved in coming to agreement on issues that transcend national boundaries. From world trade negotiations to financial market reform and climate change, ‘gridlock’ increasingly characterises international negotiations and organisations. This lecture grapples with the causes and consequences of gridlock across leading areas of global concern: security, the economy, and the environment. As things stand, the global order is drifting into a highly uncertain territory which may well involve cataclysmic moments affecting the life chances and life expectancy of people across the world."



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