Global Policy public lecture
Date: Monday 16 November 2009
Time: 6.30-8pm
Venue: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building
Speaker: Professor Sir Adam Roberts
Chair: Professor Mary Kaldor
Was the end of the Cold War a victory for power politics, or for people power? Twenty years after the opening of the Berlin Wall, debate continues about what factors sealed the fate of the Soviet system in eastern and central Europe, and eventually in the Soviet Union itself. Non-violent popular movements -- especially in Poland, East Germany and Czechoslovakia -- played a significant part in the events. How did they relate to other forms of power, and what was their effect on the shaping of the post-Cold War world?
Adam Roberts is President of the British Academy and Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Oxford. He is co-editor (with Timothy Garton Ash) of Civil Resistance and Power Politics: The Experience of Non- violent Action from Gandhi to the Present.
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