Globalization, Conflict, and Innovation: lecture series.

How is business reshaping outlooks for peace?

Business-driven globalization is reshaping the security landscape the world over—in failing African states, in rising Asian powers, in former Soviet lands, in the rich techno-industrial West, and in Muslim countries at a crossroads between modernization, religious conservatism, and dictatorship. In some places, globalization triggers violent religious, cultural, or political backlash to change. In other areas, globalization helps countries get beyond bloody ethnic and ideological passions to become stable and increasingly prosperous. In this lecture series, students look at some of the structural forces behind these changes.

Benjamin Sutherland is journalist for The Economist, the international newsweekly and former reporter for Newsweek. He also teaches geopolitics at the Paris School of Business and HEC, a grande école near Paris serially ranked Europe’s top business university by The Financial Times.