"Global Governance: What Is The Best We Can Do?" Subject Of Institute Talk By Michael Walzer

Michael Walzer, the UPS Foundation Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in the School of Social Science, will present a talk entitled "Global Governance: What Is the Best We Can Do?" on Wednesday, February 23, 2000. The lecture, part of the Institute’s 1999-2000 Public Lecture Series, is intended for a general audience and is open to the public. It will take place at 4:30 p.m. in Wolfensohn Hall on the campus of the Institute, Olden Lane, Princeton. A Reception will be held in Fuld Hall Common Room immediately following the lecture.

Professor Walzer will describe seven possible "regimes" for international societyand talk about the strengths and weaknesses of each one. How do they compare with one another? How effective (or ineffective) would they be in promoting peace and distributive justice and in protecting cultural diversity and individual rights? Over the course of his career Michael Walzer’s scholarly interests have been essentially in two related areas: the history of political thought and political and moral philosophy. After completing his undergraduate work at Brandeis University in 1956 Professor Walzer held a Fulbright Fellowship at Cambridge University, and subsequently received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1961. He taught at Princeton University from 1962-66 and at Harvard University from 1966-80, and became a member of the permanent Faculty at the Institute for Advanced Study in 1980.

Professor Walzer is the co-Editor of Dissent, a Member of the Editorial Board of Philosophy and Public Affairs and Political Theory, and a Contributing Editor at The New Republic. He is the author of numerous articles and of fifteen books. His most recent book, On Toleration (Yale University Press, 1997) has also been published in French and German. At the Institute, he is presently working on a collaborative project on Jewish Political Thought (volume one forthcoming from Yale University Press).