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Daniel W. Drezner
The System Worked:
How the World Stopped Another Great Depression

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Join us for our conference call with Professor Daniel W. Drezner of Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University on his book The System Worked: How the World Stopped Another Great Depression. The call will take place on Tuesday, May 27, at 2:00 PM ET.
 
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International institutions, from the International Monetary Fund to the International Olympic Committee, are perceived as bastions of sclerotic mediocrity at best and outright corruption at worst, and this perception is generally not far off the mark. In the wake of the 2008 financial crash, Daniel W. Drezner, like so many others, looked at the smoking ruins of the global economy and wondered why global economic governance structure had failed so spectacularly, and what could be done to reform them in the future. But then a funny thing happened. As he surveyed their actions in the wake of the crash, he realized that the evidence pointed to the exact opposite conclusion: global economic governance had succeeded.

 

Bucking the conventional wisdom about the new "G-Zero World," Drezner rehabilitates the image of the much-maligned international institutions and demolishes some of the most dangerous myths about the financial crisis. The System Worked is a vital contribution to our understanding of an area where the stakes could not be higher. More Information

 

Daniel W. Drezner is professor of International Politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. He has previously held positions with Civic Education Project, the RAND Corporation, and the U.S. Department of the Treasury. He is the author of four previous books, most recently Theories of International Politics and Zombies. Full Bio  

 

 

Previously on Cover to Cover:

 

 

April 2014 featured Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies Professor David M. Lampton on his book Following the Leader: Ruling China, from Deng Xiaoping to Xi Jinping. Click here to listen to a recording.

 

 


March 2014 featured Harvard Professor David Keith on his book A Case for Climate EngineeringClick here to listen to a recording.

Also, be sure to read the comment from Nels Granholm, Chairman, South Dakota World Affairs Council, and Professor Emeritus of Global Studies and Biology, South Dakota State University: Granholm memo here
 

 


February 2014 featured Marwan Muasher, former Foreign Minister of Jordan, and Vice President for Studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, on his new book The Second Arab Awakening: And the Battle for PluralismClick Here to listen to a recording.



January 2014 featured Peter W. Singer, Senior Fellow and Director, Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence, Brookings Institution, and author of Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: What Everyone Needs to Know on Wednesday, January 8. Click here to listen to a recording.
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