Event Date: February 28, 2018 - 17:30 to 19:00
Location: Richcraft Hall, 2nd Floor Conference Rooms, Carleton University, 9376 University Dr, Ottawa, ON
Craig N. Murphy‘s paper is the draft of the introductory chapter of a book tentatively titled Equality or Extinction, which looks at the small set of global problems that are the focus of those discussions of global governance that embrace the principle of subsidiarity. As one of the of earliest definitions (from 1969) put it, these are “problems of world-wide dimensions, potentially affecting all countries and amenable to solution only by international agreement and a willingness of countries to act in concert for their common betterment.” Preventing thermonuclear war and dealing with global warming are the most urgent of these global problems. The solution to these existential problems will likely depend on finding solutions to another, equally challenging set of global problems: the existence of immense, durable inequalities along the lines of gender, citizenship, class, race, and the geography of development.
Sponsored by the Department of Political Science, The Faculty of Public Affairs and the International Political Economy Network (IPEN)