Miguel A. Centeno: The Emergence of Global Systemic Risk
Many criticize globalization due to environmental damage or concerns with increasing inequality, while other sing its praises and the unimagined wealth and efficiency it has created. This lecture focuses on how the very architecture of global systems may in itself be the biggest risk. The combination of complexity, “normal accidents” and high interdependency have created the possibility of emergent and cascading failures.
Miguel A. Centeno, chair of the Department of Sociology at PrincetonUniversity, is the Musgrave Professor of Sociology and professor of sociology and international affairs in the WoodrowWilsonSchool. He was the founding director of the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (2003-2007) and Master of Wilson College (1997-2004). In 2000, he founded the Princeton University Preparatory Program. He is interested in political sociology and social change. He has published many books and articles most recently State and Nation Making in Latin America and Spain (CUP 2013) and the “Arc of Neo-liberalism” (Annual Review of Sociology 2012). Forthcoming books include War and Society and Building States in the Developing World. New projects include an analysis of “emergent risk” in global flows and a history of the concept of discipline.
Wine Reception: 6:00PM
Lecture: 6:30PM
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