Richard Falk: Will 2022 be a year of geopolitical realignment? (UCSB Global Studies Colloquium)

Описание: Richard Falk, 2022: Will global realignments take place?

Geopolitical alignments have been confused since the end of the Cold War. Economic integration associated with neoliberal globalization, U.S. global military dominance, and the absence of strategic rivalries among Great Powers suggested that geopolitics was being superseded, a perception reinforced by Bush’s post-2001 ‘global war on terror’. Then came Trump, the downgrading of the Western alliance, with new friends and enemies. And then came China, something new, a non-militarist superpower. Then came the return of geopolitics accompanied by puzzling tendencies toward global realignment.

Richard Falk is Albert G. Milbank Professor Emeritus of International Law, Princeton University, currently Chair of Global Law, Law Faculty, Queen Mary University London, Fellow, Orfalea Center of Global Studies, UCSB. Falk served as UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Occupied Palestine (2008-2014), Chair of the Board of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation (2005-2012) and currently Chair, Board of Trustees, Euro-Med Monitor. He wrote (Re)Imagining Humane Global Governance (2014), which proposes a value-oriented assessment of world order and future trends. His most recent books are Power Shift (2016); Revisiting the Vietnam War (2017); On Nuclear Weapons: Denuclearization, Demilitarization and Disarmament (2019). Between 2009 and 2021, Falk has been annually nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. A political memoir by Falk, Public Intellectual: The Life of a Citizen Public, was published in 2021. He is currently finishing a book on geopolitical crime.