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Venezuela Intervention and the Rules-Based International Order: Does It Matter?
<p>The post-WW2 rules-based international order has shaped decades of global stability - but recent events, including US intervention in Venezuela, raise serious questions about its future. This
...The post-WW2 rules-based international order has shaped decades of global stability - but recent events, including US intervention in Venezuela, raise serious questions about its future. This session explores what’s at stake and why it matters.
DELIVERY MODE
- Face-to-Face
COURSE OUTLINE
- The idea of liberal internationalism: Kant’s programme for perpetual peace; C19th liberalism - economic ties as the basis for peace; Norman Angell and H G Wells; Ideas for a union of democracies
- Liberal order in practice: Woodrow Wilson and the League of Nations; The post-WW2 international order: United Nations and its specialist agencies
- Post-Cold War developments: After the Global Financial Crisis: the return of Great Power Politics?
LEARNING OUTCOMES
By the end of this course, students should be able to:
- Have an understanding of the ideas that have shaped the post-WW2 international order.
- Gained insights from the history of attempts to construct a rules-based international order.
- Developed an awareness of the pressures that have built on that order.
- Assess the significance of recent US intervention in Venezuela for the future of the rules-based order.
Michael Taylor
LLM, DPhil
Michael Taylor (LLM, DPhil) is new to the WEA but has extensive teaching experience over a long career. He began over thirty years ago as a College Lecturer in Moral and Political Philosophy at...