Speaker: Jeffrey David Sachs
University Professor and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, USA
Topic: Achieving Peace Across Eurasia in the 21st Century. The Roles of Ethics, Culture, History, and Economy
University Professor and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, USA
Topic: Achieving Peace Across Eurasia in the 21st Century. The Roles of Ethics, Culture, History, and Economy
Abstract
Everyone understands we are not in a safe world today.
There is no doubt that the global geopolitical situation is changing in a fundamental way. And it seems to me personally that it is changing in a way that President Putin has described: We are at the end of the Anglo-Saxon hegemony. We are entering a multipolar world, but for now this multipolarity is extremely unstable and dangerous because different poles of the world do not engage in a meaningful, honest, and mutually respectful dialogue with each other.
I put the blame to a great extent on my own country, the United States, and I think we learned a lot of our bad habits from the United Kingdom, actually, which was a hegemonic power for around 150 years.
I would like to campaign for the opposite of the cancel culture. Personally, I speak Russian a little and love the Russian culture, and I also speak some Chinese and deeply respect the Chinese culture. This is extremely enriching – the knowledge and understanding of each other’s philosophical outlooks and cultural traditions. Therefore, I am sure that a dialogue of this kind is absolutely essential for where we stand today.
Everyone understands we are not in a safe world today.
There is no doubt that the global geopolitical situation is changing in a fundamental way. And it seems to me personally that it is changing in a way that President Putin has described: We are at the end of the Anglo-Saxon hegemony. We are entering a multipolar world, but for now this multipolarity is extremely unstable and dangerous because different poles of the world do not engage in a meaningful, honest, and mutually respectful dialogue with each other.
I put the blame to a great extent on my own country, the United States, and I think we learned a lot of our bad habits from the United Kingdom, actually, which was a hegemonic power for around 150 years.
I would like to campaign for the opposite of the cancel culture. Personally, I speak Russian a little and love the Russian culture, and I also speak some Chinese and deeply respect the Chinese culture. This is extremely enriching – the knowledge and understanding of each other’s philosophical outlooks and cultural traditions. Therefore, I am sure that a dialogue of this kind is absolutely essential for where we stand today.