Shimer Lecture: Hobbes’s Dilemma and the Liberal Quest for World Order

Please join Shimer College for an evening of reflection and conversation with Robert O. Keohane, professor of international affairs at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School.

Thursday, February 21, 2013
7 pm
The Standard Club
Chicago, IL

Keohane’s talk on “Hobbes’s Dilemma and the Liberal Quest for World Order” will showcase the newest thinking on tensions of liberal progress in our increasingly complex world.

Keohane is the author of many works, including After Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord in the World Political Economy,which won the second annual Grawemeyer Award in 1989 for “Ideas Improving World Order” and is considered seminal in the scholarship of international political economics. In 2005, Dr. Keohane was listed as the most influential scholar of international relations in the magazine Foreign Policy.

Keohane is also a member of Shimer College class of ‘61 and serves on the Shimer Board of Trustees.

Business attire requested. Register to attend here.  Contact s.creek@shimer.edu with questions.