Note: This program is rescheduled from August 11.
We surely live in interesting times--from the deepening of U.S.-led militarism to existential ecological and economic crises to shifts in the world order ranging from a significant decline of the Global North along with the rise of the East and Global South. Vijay Prashad, executive director of the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research, will explore some of these emerging trends along with possibilities for a better world.
Vijay Prashad is an Indian historian and journalist. He is the chief correspondent for Globetrotter, and the chief editor of LeftWord Books (New Delhi). He is the author of forty books, including Washington Bullets, Red Star Over the Third World, The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World, The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South, and The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of U.S. Power, written with Noam Chomsky.