The Phil Lind Initiative presents our January-March 2018 (Term 2) speaker series on The Unravelling of the Liberal Order. The series will run from Ja nuary to March\, 2018 at UBC Vancouver. Join us for a talk by Misha Glenny and register for all of our events on our Current Se ries page.
Misha Glenny
Thursday\, February
8\, 2018
6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
New Venue! Frederic Wood The
atre\, 6354 Crescent Rd\, Vancouver\, BC V6T 1Z2. Please find a map to the
theatre here.
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Our speaker: Misha Glenny is a multiple award-winning writer\, broadcaster and so ught after keynote speaker. His best-selling book\, McMafia\, about the glo balization of organized crime is broadcast this year as a major dramas seri es by the BBC and AMC.
Nemesis: One Man and the Battle for Rio\, his biography of the man who ran the largest favela in Rio for five ye ars as head of the cocaine cartel\, is also in production as a Hollywood fe ature film.
A former BBC Central Europe correspondent who covered the revolutions in Eastern Europe\, Misha won the Sony Gold Award for Outstand ing Contribution to Broadcasting for his work during the Yugoslav wars. He is the author of the best-selling The Fall of Yugoslavia and The Balkan s: War\, Nationalism and the Great Powers 1804-2012.
Misha has s erved as a visiting professor at the London School of Economics at Columbia University’s Harriman Institute where he ran a course entitled Crime\, Cor ruption and Economic Transition. He is on the boards of Global Witness\, Th e Global Initiative against Organized Crime\, The Igarapé Institute in Rio and has advised North American and European governments on topics such as B alkan politics\, cybercrime and transnational organized crime.
Misha speaks German\, Czech\, Serbo-Croat and Portuguese and lives in London.
About the theme: The world is undergoi ng a wrenching process of geopolitical transformation. The liberal order th at dominated for the past half century is unravelling. Presumptions of US h egemony no longer apply and new power centers are emerging in Asia and Euro pe. Nation states are re-asserting their sovereignty as nationalist movemen ts gain strength. The world´s major cities are also rewiring global supply chains. Yet\, multilateral institutions developed in the mid-twentieth cent ury are coming under assault by some of the very countries that were centra l to their formation. Digital connectivity and new technologies are acceler ating political\, economic and social transformation and literally changing the rules of the game\, pulling at the seams of global stability. Will the liberal order hold\, or is its disassembling inevitable? What kinds of glo bal order(s) does the future hold? The Lind Initiative’s Spring 2018 series will explore these and other questions\, with visits from the world’s lead ing intellectuals on the subject.
About the organizer:
The Phil Lind Initiative is an annual dialogue series hosted by t he Liu Institute for Global Issues\, part of the UBC School of Public Policy and Global Affairs\, and is made po ssible by a generous gift from Philip Lind (BA’66\, LLD’02). Created to add ress the most urgent issues of our time\, the initiative invites prominent American scholars\, writers and intellectuals to UBC to conduct research an d share ideas with students\, faculty and the wider community on a particul ar theme.
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