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av Håkan, Göteborg, lördag, december 31, 2022, 18:32 (453 dagar sedan)

Så lång är den här mixen av föreläsningar och debatt mellan Carl Bildt och John Mearsheimer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aNMOEQ0248&ab_channel=HolbergPrize

Jag började titta enbart för att jag såg namnet Bildt, men fann mig sitta ganska så fängslad till slutet.

Det grundläggandet temat är kriget i Ukraina men det större perspektivet med Kinas del i det storpolitiska tar också stor plats.

Den kvinnliga moderatorn är en del av behållningen, viket sällan är fallet, hon är ibland ganska så stram gentemot sina ibland vältaliga debattörer.

För den som liksom jag aldrig hört talas om John Mearsheimer (eller Carl Bildt...) klistrar jag in från nätet vilka de (och moderatorn) är och rubriken på debatten:

"How will the war in Ukraine and other geopolitical crises impact the global security order, and what do they mean for the power of deterrence ?

Panel: John J. Mearsheimer and Carl Bildt
Moderator: Cecilie Hellestveit
Organizer: The Holberg Prize

John J. Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1982. He graduated from West Point (1970), has a PhD in political science from Cornell University (1981), and has written extensively about security issues and international politics. Among Mearsheimer’s six books, The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (2001, 2014) won the Joseph Lepgold Book Prize; and The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy (with Stephen M. Walt, 2007), made the New York Times bestseller list and has been translated into twenty-five languages. His latest book is The Great Delusion: Liberal Ideals and International Realities (2018), which won the 2019 Best Book of the Year Award from the Valdai Discussion Conference, Moscow. In addition, Mearsheimer has a forthcoming book (with Sebastian Rosato), Homo Theoreticus: Rationality in International Politics. He has also written numerous articles and op-eds that have appeared in International Security, London Review of Books, Foreign Affairs, The Financial Times, and The New York Times. In 2003, Mearsheimer was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 2020, he won the James Madison Award, which is given once every three years by the American Political Science Association to “an American political scientist who has made a distinguished scholarly contribution to political science.”

Carl Bildt is Co-Chair of the European Council on Foreign Relations and contributing columnist to The Washington Post, as well as columnist for Project Syndicate. He serves as Senior Advisor to the Wallenberg Foundations in Sweden and is on the Board of Trustees of the RAND Corporation in the US. Bildt has served as both Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of Sweden. In March 2021, Bildt was appointed WHO Special Envoy for the Access to COVID-19 Tools Accelerator (ACT-Accelerator). Subsequently he served in international functions with the EU and UN, primarily related to the conflicts in the Balkans. Bildt was Co-Chairman of the Dayton peace talks on Bosnia and become the first High Representative in the country. Later, he was the Special Envoy of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to the region.

Cecilie Hellestveit (moderator) is a lawyer and social scientist with a PhD in international humanitarian law (IHL) from the University of Oslo. She has been associated with a number of research institutes in Norway and abroad. Hellestveit researches and teaches in the field of international law, use of force, and armed conflicts."

Jag är alltid imponerad av människor som kan prata sammanhängande och med fokus på ämnena i debatter.

Mina medaljer är guld till Bildt då han var mest distinkt i argumenten, silver till moderatorn för en bra prestation i sin begränsade roll, och brons till Mearsheimer för att kunna argumentera någorlunda trovärdigt trots åsikten att kriget i Ukraina är provocerat av väst och Nato.

Alla kom med intressanta fakta om historiska bakgrunder och jag hoppas att andra också tar sig tid att kolla det här.

Håkan


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