Yale Bulletin and Calendar

May 7, 2004|Volume 32, Number 29|Two-Week Issue

Threatened nation-state is topic
of two-day YCIAS conference

A conference on "Globalization and Self-Determination: The Nation-State Under Siege" will be held Friday-Saturday, May 14-15, at the Yale Center for International and Area Studies (YCIAS).

The conference, which is open to the Yale community, will take place in the Henry R. Luce Hall auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Ave.

The event is being convened by Gustav Ranis, the Henry R. Luce Director of YCIAS and the Frank Altschul Professor of International Economics; and by David Cameron, professor and director of undergraduate studies in political science, and director of the European Union Studies Program at YCIAS. It is sponsored by YCIAS and supported by the Carnegie Corporation of New York.

The conference will include seven sessions: "World Bank, IMF, WTO," "Trade, Democracy and Welfare," "Global Institutions, Local Practices," "Secession, Violence and Self-Determination," "Autonomy Movements and Decentralization," "Markets, Privatization and Globalization"; and a demonstration of the new Globalization and Self-Determination Database. An agenda and a listing of speakers and their papers are available at www.yale.edu/ycias/globalization/nation_state.htm.

The Globalization and Self-Determination project was established at YCIAS in 2000 as the result of a competition organized by the Carnegie Corporation. It examines the ways that globalization -- understood as the international integration of markets for goods, services and capital -- poses fundamental threats to self-determination. The project is focused on two main concerns: the unleashing of powerful forces that impinge on national sovereignty from "outside" the nation-state, including the increasingly integrated nature of markets, the emergence of regional institutions to govern these markets, and the activities of multilateral institutions such as the IMF and the World Bank; and attacks on existing political boundaries from "inside" the nation-state -- the ability of self-defined groups to try to choose autonomously how to govern themselves.

"The extent of self-determination of the nation-state, threatened both from 'above' and from 'below' represents one of the key concerns of contemporary social scientists and policy makers," says Ranis. "With the support of the Carnegie Corporation, we have endeavored to address these issues in an interdisciplinary fashion over the past three years."

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