American Power in the 21st Century
The 2003 series 'American Power in the 21st Century' hosted the following speakers:
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Professor Michael Mann, professor of sociology, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA): The Incoherent Empire: why there cannot be an American empire
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Professor G John Ikenberry, Peter F Krogh Professor of Geopolitics and Global Justice at Georgetown University: America's Unipolar Order: liberal hegemony or revisionist empire?
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Professor Joseph Nye, dean of the Kennedy School of Government and analyst of American foreign policy: The Paradox of American Power
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Professor Michael Cox, LSE International Relations Department: The New American Empire
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Panel discussion - Robert Cooper, director-general for external and politico-military affairs at the Council of the European Union, and Robert Kagan, senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: Hard or Soft Power? Transatlantic perspectives
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Dr Abdelwahab El-Affendi, senior research fellow at the Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster, and co-ordinator of the Centre's Project on Democracy in the Muslim World: American Power and its Illusions: the view from down there
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Professor Zhiyuan Cui, chairman and professor of the Department of Political Science, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China: The Bush Doctrine and Neoconservatism: a Chinese perspective
Additionally, Ralph Miliband's biography by Michael Newman, Ralph Miliband and the Politics of the New Left (Merlin Press, 2002), was launched as part of the Ralph Miliband Programme in October 2002 at LSE. The panel discussion that introduced the book included Professors Anthony Giddens, Mary Kaldor, and Leo Panitch, as well as Tony Benn and Hilary Wainwright.