Lecture: “A French Approach to International Relations”

Time：10:00-11:30, September 17, 2014

Venue: C105, SIS

Presenter: Professor Bertrand Badie & Professor Marie-Françoise DURAND

Language: English

Public Talk, “A French Approach to International Relations”
In the era of globalization, people talk about the end of history. However, we see the beginning of new times: as power moves from west to east and from the palaces to the streets, the world has become less predictable as well as more integrated with a complex dynamics of the geopolitical players. It’s time to reconstruct a new international orders and a new state of governance. 
 

Professor Bertrand Badie will share with you his new book Le Temps Des Humiliés,Pathologie Des Relations Internationales(Times of Humiliation: International Relations’ Pathology) and talk about the French Approach to International Relations.

Professor Bertrand Badie is professor of political science at Sciences Po Paris. He is one of the top international relations specialists in France, among the most popular professors at Sciences Po, and has served as a visiting professor to 35 universities around the world. He was Director of the Press de Sciences Po, and former vice president of IPSA. He has written extensively about international relations theory, focusing on globalization and the structural effects it exerts on the international system, states and societies. He has published more than twenty books, and most recently a new book called Le Temps Des Humiliés,Pathologie Des Relations Internationales(Times of Humiliation: International Relations’ Pathology).

Marie-Françoise DURAND is professor of geographyand director of the Atelier de Cartographieat Sciences Po. She has served as visiting professor around the world such as the French Institute of New York University. Her book Atlas de la Mondialisation  has been translated into many languages including English and Chinese.

L’Atelier de Cartographie at Sciences Po was founded in 1995. The centermaps globalization and its social phenomena after collection and analysis of information and data. These graphical symbols have greatly helped the students to understand the world we live today. The center has published the fruits of its years of research into the Atlas de la Mondialisation. Now the Atelier de Cartographiehas become partner with numerous organization, including the United Nations, France's Ministry of Defense and the Louvre museum.