Climate Change and the Nation State: The Realist Case (Book Launch), with Professor Anatol Lieven (Georgetown University)

The Global Policy Institute (GPI) cordially invites you to attend the launch of Professor Anatol Lieven's latest book:

Climate Change and the Nation State: The Realist Case
 

Date: WEDNESDAY, 04 March 2020
Time: 17:45 (registration) for 18:00 – 19:30, followed by a drinks reception

For more information on the event, please contact us by email on [email protected] or by phone on 024 7765 1102.

Venue:
Rooms G03/G04 (Ground Floor)
University House
109-117 Middlesex Street
London E1 7JF
United Kingdom 

In the past two centuries we have experienced wave after wave of overwhelming change. Entire continents have been resettled; there are billions more of us; the jobs done by countless people would be unrecognizable to their predecessors; scientific change has transformed us all in confusing, terrible and miraculous ways.

Anatol Lieven's major new book provides the frame that has long been needed to understand how we should react to climate change. This is a vast challenge, but we have often in the past had to deal with such challenges: the industrial revolution, major wars and mass migration have seen mobilizations of human energy on the greatest scale. Just as previous generations had to face the unwanted and unpalatable, so do we.

In a series of incisive, compelling interventions, Lieven shows how in this emergency our crucial building block is the nation state. The drastic action required both to change our habits and protect ourselves can be carried out not through some vague globalism but through maintaining social cohesion and through our current governmental, fiscal and military structures.

About the Author:

Professor Anatol Lieven is a senior research fellow at the Global Policy Institute in London, a professor at Georgetown University in Qatar and a Fellow of the New America Foundation in Washington DC. He was previously a professor in the War Studies Department of King's College, London. He worked for twelve years as a British foreign correspondent, reporting from South Asia, the former Soviet Union and eastern Europe for The Times and other publications. His books include Chechnya: Tombstone of Russian Power (1998); America Right or Wrong: An Anatomy of American Nationalism (second edition 2011); Ethical Realism: A Vision for America's Role in the World (with John Hulsman) (2006) and Pakistan: A Hard Country (2011, published by Penguin).

For more information on the event, please contact us by email on [email protected] or by phone on 024 7765 1102.