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Jan Nederveen Pieterse: Multipolar Globalization

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Updated: Apr 28, 2024




Inaugural Lecture The great powers play key roles in the geoeconomic and geopolitical organization of globalization in view of their size, influence and membership of the UN Security Council. The US portrays a world divided in democracy vs autocracy and proposes a rules-based order. Russia’s approach hinges on nationalism and Realpolitik. China maintains worldwide engagements and abides by the UN Charter. The world majority adheres to the UN Charter and seeks to balance great power geopolitics or seeks realignments and new institutions. The global South, middle powers and small countries have diverse agendas. This paper analyzes links between concentration of power and narcissism, compares civilizational histories, and examines the cold war and its aftermath in light of new research.


The Speaker

Jan Nederveen Pieterse is Mellichamp chair and Distinguished Professor of Global Studies and Sociology at University of California Santa Barbara. He specializes in globalization, development studies and global political economy. He was previously at University of Illinois, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, University of Cape Coast, Ghana, University of Amsterdam, National University of Malaysia, Maastricht University and Freiburg University. Recent books are Connectivity and global studies (2021), Covid-19 and Governance (2021), Multipolar globalization (2018), Globalization and culture (2024, fifth edition).


The Series

The event series on “Futures Research” serves as a global platform for debate of the theoretical, methodological, empirical, and normative foundations of social-scientific futures research. It is organized in collaboration with the International Sociological Association Research Committee on Futures Research (ISA RC07), the Transnational Futures Initiative (ITF), and the future-oriented think tanks Denkwerk Antizipative Demokratie e.V. and ProFutur gGmbH. The inaugural event is hosted by the Max Weber Center for Cultural and Social Studies in a hybrid format for local participants and as an online Webinar.






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