Daniel Chandler will discuss his new book 'Free and Equal' with DPIR's own Ben Ansell.

Free and Equal

Imagine: you are designing a society, but you don't know who you'll be within it - rich or poor, man or woman, gay or straight. What would you want that society to look like?

This conference aims to rethink the history of the left, its unrealized trajectories, and its failure during the global crisis of the 1970s through a comparative and multidisciplinary perspective (political economy, sociology, history). It will address the strategy of political organizations, the attempts at planning on the scale of socialist states, and the various forms of opposition generated against this global transnational movement.

Jean-Marie Guéhenno served as UN Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping between 2000 and 2008 and led the biggest expansion of peacekeeping in the history of the United Nations. He is now Director of the Kent Global Leadership Program on Conflict Resolution and a Professor of Practice at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.