A lecture by Heikki Patomäki
Friday, March 29, 2013
1:00 p.m.
Room 614 Social Sciences
Refreshments served
The historical development and functioning of global financial system,
the 2008-2009 crisis, and the European debt crisis that started in 2010 have been tightly intertwined. The Euro crisis is, in essence, a second phase of the epic recession that began in 2008. Moreover, the ideological underpinnings or inherent contradictions of the European Monetary Union (EMU) are not specific to the EMU only. Similar ambiguities and imbalances characterize also the dynamics of global political economy as a whole.
In his lecture, Professor Patomäki argues first that the Euro crisis requires
reforms in the systems of global governance; and second that this
conclusion should be generalized from a non-Eurocentric perspective,
presupposing also a new global imaginary of ethics and politics.
Heikki Patomäki is Professor of World Politics at the University of Helsinki, Finland and a founding member of NIGD (Network Institute for Global Democratization) He is also an activist in the international ATTAC (Association for the Taxation of financial Transactions and Aid to Citizens) movement and currently chairing ATTAC Finland.
His research interests include philosophy and methodology of social sciences, peace research, futures studies, economic theory, global political economy, and global political theory.
His most recent book is The Great Eurozone Disaster: From Crisis to Global New Deal (Zedbooks, March 2013).
Sponsored by The Government of Finland/David and Nancy Speer Visiting Professorship, European Studies Consortium, Department of Political Science, Institute for Global Studies.
