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Civilisations, Barbarity, Conquest, Legitimacy and Crimes of War
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John DunnMisha Glenny
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Series: Lecture
The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February of this year has cast a glaring new light on a very old but ever more urgent question. In his lecture John Dunn asked, if there are any terms on which the human population of the world could still hope to live with one another in peace and personal freedom into a future of many generations? Could we still create together a modus vivendi of real duration? We know now, as we did not yet know in the year 1940, in which John Dunn was born, that any future generational horizon is in ever starker jeopardy because of the colossal and ever less controllable harm we are inflicting as a species on our global habitat. We know, as we could have known in much of Europe for at least three centuries, that the world was then, as it mercilessly remains, a vast distance from realising those terms and that it could not in principle realise them at all rapidly. We still have only a tiny repertoire of forms through which to try to act collectively on any scale: international agencies, civilisations, states, peoples (or, if you prefer, nations) – each of doubtful efficacy and eminently questionable legitimacy. Which of these forms could still take how much of the strain and how and why could war still feature as anything but grounds for despair within that ever more desperate struggle? We have never had any clear idea of how the world could be made a just world for its human inhabitants. Do we still have any rational horizon for collective hope over time?
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Series: Lecture
The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February of this year has cast a glaring new light on a very old but ever more urgent question. In his lecture John Dunn asked, if there are any terms on which the human population of the world could still hope to live with one another in peace and personal freedom into a future of many generations? Could we still create together a modus vivendi of real duration? We know now, as we did not yet know in the year 1940, in which John Dunn was born, that any future generational horizon is in ever starker jeopardy because of the colossal and ever less controllable harm we are inflicting as a species on our global habitat. We know, as we could have known in much of Europe for at least three centuries, that the world was then, as it mercilessly remains, a vast distance from realising those terms and that it could not in principle realise them at all rapidly. We still have only a tiny repertoire of forms through which to try to act collectively on any scale: international agencies, civilisations, states, peoples (or, if you prefer, nations) – each of doubtful efficacy and eminently questionable legitimacy. Which of these forms could still take how much of the strain and how and why could war still feature as anything but grounds for despair within that ever more desperate struggle? We have never had any clear idea of how the world could be made a just world for its human inhabitants. Do we still have any rational horizon for collective hope over time?
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Fleeing and Staying
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Meghna Guhathakurta, Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury
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Speakers: Meghna Guhathakurta, Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury
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Speakers: Meghna Guhathakurta, Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury
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Ukrainian Identity in the Time of War
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Ayşe ÇağlarMariia ShynkarenkoVolodymyr Kulyk, Mariia Shynkarenko
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Liberty after Liberalism: Emancipatory Struggles in Ukrainian Journalism, 1998-2021
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Katherine YoungerMary KaldorTaras FedirkoTimothy Snyder
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Series: Lecture
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Greening Democracy
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John KeaneMisha Glenny
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Sphere of Influence I
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Shalini RanderiaStephen Kotkin
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Series: Lecture
The liberal, rules-based international order did not take shape predominantly as a consequence of highmindedness, but as a sphere of influence. That, moreover, was to a great extent inspired, and sustained, by a comprehensive cold war with the Soviet Union (or Second World, as it was once called). The sphere of influence known as the West played a significant part in European integration, spurred phenomenal global investments in science and research, gave additional impetus to desegregation and civil rights in the U.S, and more.
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Series: Lecture
The liberal, rules-based international order did not take shape predominantly as a consequence of highmindedness, but as a sphere of influence. That, moreover, was to a great extent inspired, and sustained, by a comprehensive cold war with the Soviet Union (or Second World, as it was once called). The sphere of influence known as the West played a significant part in European integration, spurred phenomenal global investments in science and research, gave additional impetus to desegregation and civil rights in the U.S, and more.
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Reading Russian Philosophy in the Age of Putin
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Clemena AntonovaMischa GabowitschTatyana Gershkovich, Ivan Foletti
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The Climate Question
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Dipesh Chakrabarty
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Speakers: Dipesh Chakrabarty
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Speakers: Dipesh Chakrabarty
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Patient Earth: The Rise and Fall of Globalization
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Ivan VejvodaJeremy Adelman
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Democracy's Dilemmas Reconsidered
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Ewa AtanassowIra Katznelson
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Series: Lecture
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