Professor Lord Anthony Giddens, Professor Richard Ned Lebow, Professor Alex Callinicos, Professor Michael Cox; Dr George Lawson (chair)
10 November 2010, 6.30pm, COL.B212
The collapse of Soviet communism and the end of the Cold War are usually seen as triumphs for market democracy. However, over the past two decades, it has become clear that the events of '1989 and all that' have produced mixed, paradoxical and, at times, contradictory outcomes. This event launches a new study - The Global 1989: Continuity and Change in World Politics (Cambridge, 2010) - which explores the ways in which the central dynamics of contemporary world politics have been shaped, for better or worse, by the social forces unleashed in Central and Eastern Europe some twenty years ago.
Speakers
Anthony Giddens is Professor Emeritus at LSE and Life Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. He was Director of LSE between 1997 and 2003.
Richard Ned Lebow is the James O. Freedman Presidential Professor of Government at Dartmouth College and the Centennial Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Alex Callinicos is Professor of European Studies at Kings College London.
Michael Cox is Co-Director of LSE IDEAS and Professor of International Relations at LSE.
George Lawson is Lecturer in International Relations at LSE.
Location
B212, 2nd Floor Columbia House, London School of Economics. Map.