- Webinar
A New Political Strategy for the Struggle to Limit Climate Change
CIRS Environmental Studies
About
In a lecture based on his latest book, Climate Change and the Nation State: The Realist Case, Anatol Lieven sets out a new political strategy to mobilise support for the effort to limit climate change. He argues that while international agreements and movements are valuable, in the end their purpose is to get states to act, because (as the pandemic response demonstrated) only states can take the measures and mobilise the resources required. For this to happen, states and their populations have to be convinced that climate change is not just a threat to humanity in general, but a danger to the vital interests and the long term survival of their own nations.
Speakers
Anatol Lieven
Anatol Lieven is a professor at Georgetown University in Qatar, where he teaches classes on international relations, foreign policy, and nationalism. He is affiliated with several academic institutions and think-tanks, including King’s College London, the New America Foundation in Washington DC and the Valdai discussion club in Russia. His latest book, Climate Change and the Nation State, was published in March 2020 by Penguin in the UK and Oxford University Press in the USA. His previous book, Pakistan: A Hard Country was published by Penguin and OUP in 2012.
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