On the evening of the U.S. elections, IWM Permanent Fellow Ivan Krastev invites Stephen Walt, professor of international affairs at Harvard University and one of today's most distinguished geopolitical thinkers, to examine the future of international relations at a moment of sweeping transformation.
Humanity is at a Gramscian moment when “one world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born.” The Cold War order ended in 1992, and the U.S. attempt to construct a global liberal order collapsed in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, the failed wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the global resurgence of populism and authoritarianism. This lecture and discussion will examine the forces that are undermining the current geopolitical order and consider how states can build a new order to preserve the conditions required for sustained human existence, reduce the risk of war, manage the movement of goods, capital, information, and people, and encourage respect for basic human rights—issues that are especially urgent as the world turns its gaze toward the U.S. elections on 5 November, which may fundamentally reshape this global landscape.
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Geopolitical Talks is a series of public debates with foreign policy experts and former politicians initiated by IWM Permanent Fellow Ivan Krastev in 2018.
In cooperation with Bundesministerium für Landesverteidigung (BMLV).
