Please join The New School for Social Research for "Polycrisis and the Fraying of U.S. Hegemony," a talk from Adam Tooze, Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of History at Columbia University.
Faced with an intensifying global polycrisis, the question of U.S. leadership is posed with new urgency. U.S. hegemony was born out of the challenges of the 20th century. It prevailed in the Cold War in Europe. In the 21st century it is faced with challenges that put in question both its efficacy and its legitimacy at home and abroad. Those questions have been given further urgency by the reelection of Donald Trump. This lecture by Columbia historian Adam Tooze will offer an occasion to take stock.
This event is part of NSSR's endowed Hans Maeder Lecture Series. The series was established in honor of Hans Maeder, a leader in progressive education and an extraordinary intellectual and political activist who exemplified in his life's work a dedication to international understanding and social justice. Following his death in 1988, his former students endowed this lectureship at The New School in 1990.
Presented by the Office of the Executive Dean at The New School for Social Research
Adam Tooze holds the Shelby Cullom Davis chair of History at Columbia University and serves as Director of the European Institute. In 2019, Foreign Policy Magazine named him one of the top Global Thinkers of the decade.
He teaches and researches widely in the fields of twentieth-century and contemporary history. From a start in modern German history with a special focus on the history of economics and economic history his interests have widened to take in a range of themes in political, intellectual and military history, across a canvass stretching from Europe across the Atlantic.
His most recent books are Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World's Economy (2021) and Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World (2018)
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