cordially invite you to a panel discussion featuring a recent Cornell University
Press publication
Limits to Liberalization: Local Culture in a Global Marketplace
by Patricia M. Goff
The culture industries are noteworthy exceptions to the rhetorical commitment of
Western countries to free trade as a major goal. Patricia Goff traces the
rationale for "cultural protectionism" in trade policies of Canada, France, and
the European Union. The result is a larger understanding of the forces that
shape international trade agreements and a book that speaks to current
theoretical concerns about national identity as it plays out in politics and
international relations.
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
3:00 - 5:00pm
World Bank J Building, Auditorium J1-050
(701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.)
Cookies and Coffee will be served
Moderator
Mark Woodward
Senior Social Development Specialist, Sustainable Development Department, Europe
and Central Asia Region, World Bank
Mark Woodward is a Senior Social Development Specialist in the World Bank's
Europe and Central Asia Region where he has been working on a variety of issue
areas including mobilizing cultural heritage in support of sustainable
development, notably in the Balkans and the South Caucasus. Mr. Woodward has a
Ph.D. in Political Science from Stanford University.
Author
Patricia Goff
Associate Professor of Political Science at Wilfrid Laurier University and
Senior Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation
Patricia Goff specializes in International Political Economy and International
Relations Theory. She holds an Honours
B.A. in French and Political Science from the University of Western Ontario, an
M.A. in French Literature from McMaster
University, a Diplôme d?études approfondies in Comparative Politics from the
University of Paris, and a Ph.D. in
Political Science from Northwestern University. She is co-editor with Kevin C.
Dunn of Identity and Global Politics
(Palgrave Macmillan Press, 2004) and co-editor with Paul Heinbecker of
Irrelevant or Indispensable: the United Nations
in the 21st Century (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2005).
Commentary
JP Singh
Assistant professor in the Communication, Culture and Technology Program at
Georgetown University
J. P. Singh is a professor and an Editor of Research Policy Review. Mr. Singh
authored Leapfrogging Development? The Political Economy of Telecommunications
Restructuring and co-edited (with James N. Rosenau) Information Technologies and
Global Politics. His current book project is titled Negotiating the Global
Information Economy. He has authored nearly thirty journal articles and book
chapters. He is Chair of the Science, Technology and Environmental Politics
section of the American Political Science Association; President of the
International Communication Section of the International Studies Association;
and Vice President of the Policy Studies Organization.
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