Dilemmas of Empire and Nationbuilding: The Role of the U.S. in the World

Dilemmas of Empire and Nationbuilding: The Role of the US in the World 2004 Symposium Home Preliminary Programs RETHINK: The Causes and Consequences of September 11 The Relevance of the UN in a Unipolar World Rhetoric or Reality: Exporting Democracy to the Middle East The Global Commons: The Environment and Superpower Responsibility Economic Hegemony: Trade, Aid, and Development US Empire: Pax or Pox Americana Refractions and Reflections: The US in the Eyes of the Global Media TransAtlantic Rift: The Future of US-EU Relations The Challenges of Nationbuilding: Afghanistan and Iraq US Grand Strategy: The Future Role of the Military War on Terror: The Endless Offensive US Engagement in Africa: Challenges Ahead The Once and Future Hegemony? The US-China Relationship Archives

Friday, February 27

The Global Commons: The Environment and Superpower Responsibility

Audience participation during the symposium

William Moomaw, Professor of International Environmental Policy at The Fletcher School and Senior Director of the Tufts Institute of the Environment, Tufts University; Lead Author, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2003; Science Advisory Committee, Earthwatch; Coeditor, Transboundary Environmental Negotiation and People and Their Planet: Searching for Balance

Adil Najam, Associate Professor of International Negotiation and Diplomacy, The Fletcher School, Tufts University; Director, Board of Governors, Pakistan Institute for Environment Development Action Research; Author, "The Case Against a New International Environmental Organization" and "Climate Negotiations Beyond Kyoto: Developing Country Concerns and Interests"; Editor, Environment, Development and Human Security: Perspectives from South Asia ; Coauthor, Civic Entrepreneurship: Civil Society Perspectives on Sustainable Development , Vol. 1

Atiq Rahman, Visiting Professor of International Diplomacy, The Fletcher School, Tufts University; Executive Director, Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies; Coordinator, Global Forum on the Environment and Poverty; Author, Environment & Poverty: Key Linkages for Global Sustainable Development and Exploding the Population Myth: 'Consumption Versus Population'-Which is the Climate Bomb?

Daphne Wysham, Fellow, board member, the Institute for Policy Studies, Transnational Institute; Founder and director, Sustainable Energy & Economy Network; Co-editor, Beyond Bretton Woods: Alternatives to the Global Economic Order; Co-author, among others, The World Bank and the G-7: Changing the Earth's Climate for Business; Enron's Pawns: How Public Institutions Bankrolled Enron's Globalization Game; and Crude Vision: How Oil Interests Obscured US Government Focus on Chemical Weapons Use by Saddam Hussein

Moderators: Trevanna Grenfell and Michael Kastoryano, EPIIC Colloquium