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  • Mandeville's Fable: Pride, Hypocrisy, and Sociability

    Mandeville's Fable: Pride, Hypocrisy, and Sociability

    18:06

    Bernard Mandeville’s The Fable of the Bees outraged its eighteenth-century audience by proclaiming that private vices lead to public prosperity. Today the work is best known as an early iteration of laissez-faire capitalism. Focusing on Mandeville’s moral, social, and political ideas, Robin Douglass offers an account of why we should take Mandeville seriously as a philosopher.

  • Henry Brougham and the Invention of Cannes

    Henry Brougham and the Invention of Cannes

    19:02

    When Henry Brougham, first Baron Brougham and Vaux, died in his villa in Cannes in May 1868 at the age of eighty-nine, he was well known for his many achievements in the fields of politics, law and education, and also as the man who put the Mediterranean town Cannes on the map. Rosemary Ashton discusses the origin of Cannes as a resort to a chance visit in 1834 by Lord Brougham.

  • Globalization in question: why does engaged theory matter?

    Globalization in question: why does engaged theory matter?

    14:59

    Paul James discusses the significance of engaged globalization theory and critical reflexivity and the development of an integrated method of analysis.

  • British Engagement with Japan, 1854–1922

    British Engagement with Japan, 1854–1922

    15:17

    Anthony Best discusses the circumstances which led to the unlikely alliance of 1902 to 1922 between Britain, the leading world power of the day and Japan, an Asian, non-European nation which had only recently emerged from self-imposed isolation.

  • Can the Liberal Order be Sustained? Nations, Network Effects, and the Erosion of Global Institutions

    Can the Liberal Order be Sustained? Nations, Network Effects, and the Erosion of Global Institutions

    14:43

    A growing retreat from multilateralism is threatening to upend the institutions that underpin the liberal international order. Bryan H. Druzin applies network theory to this crisis in global governance, arguing that policymakers can strengthen these institutions by leveraging network effect pressures.