‘We Are Coming Apart at the Seams’: Columbia Prof. Jeffrey Sachs Discusses Global Cooperation
Vidya Balaji
A recent article in the The Cornell Daily Sun on Jeffrey D. Sachs' November 15th lecture at CSES.
Joseph Nye, Harvard Kennedy School – 11/1/21
The China Sleepwalking Syndrome
Joseph S. Nye, Jr.
If the Sino-American relationship were a hand of poker, Americans would recognize that they have been dealt a good hand and avoid succumbing to fear or belief in the decline of the US. But even a good hand can lose if it is played badly.
Francis Fukuyama Lecture Photo Gallery
October 18, 2021
Francis Fukuyama was the first speaker in the Center for the Study of Economy & Society’s fall lecture series, “The American State in a Multipolar World.” His lecture, introduced by Cornell President Martha E. Pollack, highlighted the key challenges facing global democracy: pandemic, climate change, and political polarization.
Photography: Dave Burbank
Francis Fukuyama, Stanford – 10/18/21
Center Links Economy and Society to Study Changing World
James Dean, Cornell Chronicle
“As its founding director 20 years ago, Victor Nee didn’t imagine the Center for the Study of Economy and Society (CSES) taking an interest in New York City’s tech economy. The city hardly had one to speak of – on par with Philadelphia’s, and a bit player compared to financial services, real estate or tourism.
Now, New York claims the nation’s second-largest tech economy after Silicon Valley, and the development of regional knowledge economies is one of several primary areas of research focus for the center’s Economic Sociology Lab, supported by graduate researchers and undergraduate assistants.”
The Myth of a Majority-Minority America
Richard Alba, Morris Levy, and Dowell Myers
"The narrative that nonwhite people will soon outnumber white people is not only divisive, but also false," writes CSES Fellow Richard Alba and co-authors Morris Levy and Dowell Myers.
The American State in a Multipolar World: Andrew Bacevich
A New Security Paradigm
- 4:00 - 5:30pm
- Online via Zoom
Overview
What role should the United States play in an increasingly multipolar international order? Should it continue to play the role of international policeman or should it cede influence to rising powers and focus on domestic problems? Andrew J. Bacevich, Professor Emeritus of International Relations and History at Boston University, takes up the challenge posed by U.S. foreign policy in the 21st century to propose a new security paradigm, one that prioritizes the security and wellbeing of the American people where they live.
Join the Center for the Study of Economy & Society for the fifth installment of its 2021-2022 lecture series, “The American State in a Multipolar World,” featuring distinguished world experts, Francis Fukuyama, Jeffrey D. Sachs, Joseph Nye, Samuel Moyn, and Andrew J. Bacevich, as they discuss the future of American foreign policy and the threat of a new Cold War.
What You’ll Learn
- An alternative view on the future of American hegemony from a leading expert on U.S. foreign policy
- How the U.S. can achieve security without sacrificing its moral center
- Key challenges to global peace and cooperation and how to navigate them
About the Speaker
Andrew J. Bacevich is Professor Emeritus of International Relations and History at Boston University and President and Chairman of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. A graduate of the U.S. Military Academy and a retired U.S. army colonel, he received his PhD in American Diplomatic History from Princeton University. Before joining the faculty of Boston University, he was a professor at West Point and Johns Hopkins. Bacevich was a 2004 Berlin Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin and has held fellowships at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins, the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, and the Council on Foreign Affairs in Washington, D.C. He is the author of numerous books on U.S. foreign policy, including most recently, After the Apocalypse: America’s Role in a World Transformed (2021), The Age of Illusions: How America Squandered Its Cold War Victory (2020), and America’s War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History (2016).
