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03 May 2006
GPPi to co-sponsor discussion on "Making the World Safe for Empire?"
GPPi will co-sponsor a discussion on "Making the World Safe for Empire?" as part of the Harvard Center for European Studies Berlin Dialogues series. This session focuses on the debate of the United States as Empire.
The two panelists will be Charles Maier (Harvard University) and Georg Nolte (University of Munich). Charles Maier who has recently published the book Among Empires: American Ascendancy and its Predecessors (Harvard University Press 2006), will discuss what empire might mean for American identity at home and America's role abroad. Georg Nolte's research inter alia deals with the external effects of growing U.S. predominance, especially implications for the system of international rules. In the book United States Hegemony and the Foundations of International Law (2003) he explored the effects of U.S. hegemony on the basic concepts of international law such as the sovereign equality of states, and the use of force or norms governing international treaties. GPPi fellow Sergey Lagodinsky will chair and moderate the discussion.
The session will take place at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, Reichpietschufer 50, 10785 Berlin from 5pm-7pm on Monday May 8. To register please send an email to maychu@fas.harvard.edu (Karolina May-Chu) or call 49-30-28482240.