Dear Colleagues:
The Department of Geography at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in conjunction with Economic Geography, the journal, and the AAG Economic Geography Specialty Group are co-sponsoring the 2012 Roepke Lecture given by:
Dani Rodrik, Rafiq Hariri Professor of International Political Economy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
TITLE: Who Needs the Nation-State?"
ABSTRACT: The demise of the nation state has been predicted for a long time. Economic globalization, in particular, is said to undermine (or perhaps even render superfluous) the nation state because it makes geography irrelevant. Alternative modes of governance, from international organizations to networks of regulators to international NGOs have been touted as replacements. Yet, as the travails of the European Union (among others) most poignantly indicate, the nation-state and nationalism remain strong. With few exceptions, the world's most successful societies remain organized as nation states. In this lecture I will examine the economics and politics of the durability of nation states. I analyze the factors that push economic and political governance to remain geographically circumscribed.
Introducer: Andres Rodriguez-Pose, London School of Economics
Discussant: John Agnew, UCLA
The Lecture will take place on February 25 (Saturday), 2:40pm-4:20pm in Trianon Ballroom, Third Floor, New York Hilton.
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Yuko Aoyama, Ph.D. <http://www.clarku.edu/faculty/yaoyama/>
Professor and Henry J. Leir Faculty Fellow Graduate School of Geography <http://www.clarku.edu/departments/geography/>
CLARK UNIVERSITY
Editor, Economic Geography <http://www.econgeography.org/>
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