Worldview Institute | Spring 2017
The Worldview Institute | Winter 2017 Semester
SEMINAR 1 : February 15, 2017
The UN in a Transforming World
Guest lecturer: Dr. H.E. Tomas Anker Christensen, Chef de Cabinet of the President of the UN General Assembly
SEMINAR 2 : February 22, 2017
U.S.-China Relations: Past, Present and Future
Our discussion will focus on the underlying forces that have shaped the growing rivalry between the United States and China since the end of the Cold War, the strategies that the two powers have pursued in dealing with one another to date, and the possible future development of relations as Donald Trump assumes the presidency and Xi Jinping enters his second 5 year term.
Guest lecturer: Dr. Aaron Friedberg, Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Princeton University
SEMINAR 3 : March 1, 2017
International Relations in the Light of Current Transitions
2016 was an eventful year on the global stage, leaving a number of open-ended questions and new challenges to be met. Looking ahead to 2017, we are entering an important period of transition. President Trump is taking office, Brexit negotiations are likely to begin, and António Guterres assumes the helm of the UN with an ambitious agenda, aiming to tackle numerous global challenges including the implementation of the Paris Agreement, the situation in Syria, huge swells of migration, protracted conflicts, and terrorism, as well as UN reform. In such an interconnected world, it is increasingly clear that national responses are not enough….
Guest lecturer: Ambassador Joao vale de Almeida, Head of the Delegation of the European Union to the UN
SEMINAR 4 : March 8, 2017
Iran
Guest lecturer: H.E. Ambassador Gholam Ali Khoshroo, Permanent Representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the UN
SEMINAR 5 : March 15, 2017
Tough Road Ahead: Global Response and the Syria Refugee Crisis
Ambassador Sima Bahous will give an overview of the Syria refugee crisis and challenges facing the international community with special focus on the situation in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan — one of the largest hosts of refugees in the world, and with limited resources. She will look at the global response needed to tackle the protracted nature of the crisis and how such a response should complement the global community's endeavours for peace and the realization of the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals.
Guest lecturer: Ambassador Sima Bahous, Permanent Representative of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan to the UN
SEMINAR 6 : March 22, 2017
A Visit to the United Nations
A private tour of the United Nations with fellow Worldview participants, with the opportunity to discuss your impressions at dinner following the tour.
SEMINAR 7 : March 29, 2017
On Globalization
Guest lecturer: John Authers, Senior Investment Commentator, Financial Times
SEMINAR 8 : April 5, 2017
Freedom of the Press and Expression in the Age of Populism – Security, Censorship, and Post-Truth
The seminar will adopt a global standpoint to explore some of the current challenges to freedom of expression and freedom of the press, and discuss the continuing relevance of international human rights standards to protect the right to seek, receive and access information. It will examine the complex, and often awkward, interplay of global information flows with national jurisdiction and state sovereignty, as well as the challenges arising from the inner working of the Media in the digital age. It will conclude by presenting some of the global norms that have emerged over time to enshrine the protection of freedom of expression and information, across and above national and regional differences and insisting on their continuing relevance and importance.
Guest lecturer: Dr. Agnes Callamard, Director, Global Freedom of Expression, Columbia University
SEMINAR 9 : April 12, 2017
Colombian Political and Economic Perspectives After the Peace Agreement
The peace agreement signed in 2016 by the Colombian government and FARC is now in force. This talk will reflect on the political and economic perspectives: how the peace process affects those perspectives, and how those perspectives affect the peace process. It would place particular emphasis on rural development, the central economic issue negotiated between the government and FARC.
Guest lecturer: Jose Antonio O'Campo, Professor of Professional Practice in International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
SEMINAR 10 : April 19, 2017
Ukraine–Russia Relations: Roots and Causes
Ukraine as a successor of the Principality of Kyiv Rus (whose rulers founded Moscow in 13 century) has been and remains a historical watershed between Asian and European civilizations and was playing for centuries the role of either a bridge, or a buffer, or a barrier, or an outpost, or a bridgehead between Russia and the West. Ambassador Yuriy Sergeyev's seminar will focus on the ongoing Ukrainian-Russian conflict as a conflict of civilizational choice between the Soviet past and the European human values. Ambassador Sergeyev will share his view on the exact goals of Russia's aggression in Ukraine and on foresight of crisis settlement including the mediating role of UN, USA and EU.
Guest lecturer: Ambassador Yuriy Sergeyev, Senior Fellow, MacMillan Center for International and Regional Studies at Yale
April 21, 2017
Worldview Winter 2017 Graduation Dinner
Keynote Speaker: Yasmine Sherif, Vice President & Director of International Relations, Global Center for Justice & Humanity
Location: The National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South, New York
