Harvard Berlin Discussion on May 8, 2006: Making the World Safe for Empire

Harvard Center for European Studies in Berlin
CES BERLIN DIALOGUES
cordially invites you

Monday, May 8, 2006
**17.00-19.00**

Making the World Safe for Empire

co-sponsored by the Global Public Policy Institute, Berlin

Location
Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung
Reichpietschufer 50, 10785 Berlin


Panel
Prof. Charles S. Maier
Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History, Harvard University;
Author of Among Empires: American Ascendancy and Its Predecessors (2006)

Prof. Dr. Georg Nolte
Chair for German and Comparative Public Law, Department of Public International Law and European Law, Institute for International Law, University of Munich; substitute member for Germany on the European Commission for Democracy through Law; author of United States Hegemony and the Foundations of International Law (2003)

Sergey Lagodinsky
(chair and co-organizer)
Fellow, Global Public Policy Institute, Berlin; special advisor to the Berlin Office of the American Jewish Committee

Session
This session focuses on America as Empire. Prof. Charles Maier, who has recently published the book Among Empires: American Ascendancy and its Predecessors, will discuss what being an empire would mean for American identity at home and America's role abroad; and what the United States has become as a result of its wealth, inventiveness, and ambitions, and at what cost. Prof. Georg Nolte's research deals with the external effects of growing U.S. predominance, especially implications for the system of international rules. In the volume United States Hegemony and the Foundations of International Law (2003), he explored the effects of U.S. hegemony on the basic concepts of international law such as the sovereign equality of states, and the use of force or norms governing international treaties.


Support
* Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies *
* Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung *
* Dräger Foundation, Lübeck *
* Dr. Kade Pharmazeutische Fabrik GmbH *


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