The SMU Tower Center would like to invite you to the National Security Lecture: More Than Just Peace: Democracies and Their Responsibilities toward Nondemocratic Societies

Date: Monday, October 21, 2024, 12:00 – 1:30 p.m.

Location: Blanton Room, Laura Lee Blanton Building, 6185 Airline Rd, Dallas, TX 75205

Parking: Binkley Garage, 3105 Binkley Ave. (between Airline Rd. & Dyer St.)

The event is free and open to the public. Registration is required. Please click below for registration.

Drawing on ideas in Rawls’ The Law of Peoples, this lecture will explore the reasons for insisting that democracies not only preserve a peace among themselves but extend toleration to other "decent" (though nondemocratic) societies and aid peoples requiring assistance to escape humanitarian emergencies or extreme poverty. The lecture will explore whether those normative commitments are realistic – i.e., are likely to be fulfilled by the democracies Rawls is addressing.

Featuring:

Michael W. Doyle is a Columbia University Professor, affiliated with the School of International and Public Affairs, the Department of Political Science, and the Law School. Doyle’s career has joined scholarship and international public service. He has published books on the history of empires, international monetary order, UN peacekeeping, preventive war, and international intervention. He is, perhaps, best known for the theory of the liberal democratic peace (“democracies do not go to war with each other”).  His most recent book is Cold Peace: Avoiding the New Cold War (Liveright/WW Norton, 2023), a study of how to avoid a new cold war between the U.S. and Russia and China. From 2006 to 2013, Doyle was an individual member and the chair of the UN Democracy Fund, a fund established in 2005 by the UN General Assembly to promote grass-roots democratization around the world. Doyle previously served as assistant secretary-general and special adviser for policy planning to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan. He has received two career awards from the American Political Science Association for his scholarship and public service and has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Academy for Political and Social Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. He has earned an A.B. and Ph.D. from Harvard University and been awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the University of Warwick (UK).

Discussant: Stefano Recchia, John G. Tower Distinguished Chair in International Politics and National Security, SMU Tower Center

Any person who requires a reasonable accommodation on the basis of a disability in order to participate in this program should contact the SMU Tower Center at tower@smu.edu in advance at least 4 days prior to the event to arrange for the accommodation.

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