Professor Robert Keohane 11th May 2015
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UCL's Institute of Global Governance is pleased to present Eric Schlosser, investigative journalist and author, for a special debate about the issues arising from his book Command and Control , which explores nuclear weapons and the risks that their continuing presence put over our daily lives. Schlosser’s compelling narrative tells the story of Cold War ‘near-misses’ using exclusive and recently de-classified documents and interviews.
Eric will be joined by Thomas Nash, an expert on humanitarian disarmament who has worked on international campaigns to ban cluster munitions and autonomous weapons. Thomas is Director of Article 36 (article36.org/about/) and a steering group member of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN).
Recent international conferences in Norway and Mexico have changed the parameters for discussing nuclear weapons - their devastating effects and the impossible task of mounting a meaningful humanitarian response after a detonation renders the
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3/13/2017
This seminar introduces basic concepts and definitions for climate change, examining how to place climate change in wider contexts alongside the challenges and opportunities in defining, interpreting, and governing climate change. Climate change impacts are illustrated through island case studies. Based on this basic understanding of climate change, its impacts, and its place within development, the audience will be asked to summarise the challenges and opportunities of global governance for climate change.
The event is open to all.
Ilan Kelman (ilankelman.org) is a Reader in Risk, Resilience and Global Health at University College London, England and a Senior Research Fellow at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, Oslo. His overall research interest is linking disasters and health, including the integration of climate change into disaster research and health research. That covers three main areas: (i) disaster diplomacy and health diplomacy (disasterdiplomacy.org) ;
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Prof Philipp Cerny - Transnational Neopluralism and the Limits of Global Governance Theoretical and Empirical Issues
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On Friday May 22nd 2015, the day after their final exam, the students of the MSc Global Governance and Ethics held their last event in a series of social and guest speaker events.
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On Friday May 22nd 2015, the day after their final exam, the students of the MSc Global Governance and Ethics held their last event in a series of social and guest speaker events.
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It is a mantra amongst international lawyers that the field of international law is expanding, exponentially. This trend, also referred to as the legalization of world politics, may have been true until a decade ago. It is highly questionable today. Formal international law is stagnating both in terms of quantity and quality.
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The Paris Agreement signed on December 12th 2015 represents a milestone for international action on climate change and a breakthrough for international mitigation policy. While its medium- to long-term outcomes cannot be forecasted at this stage, it is undeniable that a new and challenging phase in the global low-carbon transition has been launched. The new climate policy era offers an enhanced framework for the development and operation of mechanisms aimed at facilitating the low-carbon transition of the economy worldwide. Article 6 in particular represents a cornerstone in defining the basic structure of the new mechanisms included in the Agreement. A mechanism 'open to all' is introduced and an ambitious new phase in the international relations may be forged upon it. Yet the mechanism's structure is barely drawn up and several questions still remain unsolved. Can we expect for the mechanism to establish a global carbon market? How can the mechanism really promote mitigation actions
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