'Crafting a new global order? The United Nations and international politics in the 1990s' with Prof Fabian Klose

Forthcoming Event

Date
 30 October 2024, 5:00pm - 6:15pm
Registration Required

Location
 Oxford Martin School & Online
34 Broad Street (corner of Holywell and Catte Streets), Oxford, OX1 3BD

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The 1990s are pivotal for understanding the mobilisation of the international system in the face of significant geopolitical upheaval and different types of global shock.

After the end of the Cold War, this decade marks the beginning of a quest for a new global order. New visions of global governance emerged, which were based on a redefinition of fundamental principles such as peace, security, sovereignty and the idea of responsibility. However, these developments were overshadowed by mass violence, ethnic cleansing, genocide and the failures of the international community to prevent them.

In his talk Professor Fabian Klose, Chair of International History and Historical Peace and Conflict Research at University of Cologne, will investigate the consequences these turbulent times had for the United Nations and how the world organisation reacted. He will explore the ambiguous role of the United Nations as a global actor responding to global shocks, in complex and often controversial circumstances.

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Prof Dr Fabian Klose

Professor Fabian Klose
Visiting Fellow, Oxford Martin Programme on Changing Global Orders

Fabian Klose is the Chair of International History and Historical Peace and Conflict Research at the University of Cologne and Director of the newly founded Cologne Center for Advanced Studies in International History and Law (CHL).

His research focuses on the history of decolonisation, international humanitarian law, human rights, and humanitarianism in the 19th and 20th centuries. On the history of human rights and humanitarianism he has published Human Rights in the Shadow of Colonial Violence. The Wars of Independence in Kenya and Algeria (Philadelphia 2013), and recently In the Cause of Humanity. A History of Humanitarian Intervention in the Long Nineteenth Century (Cambridge 2022).

He is an internationally-recognised scholar of international humanitarianism and human rights, and is leading a new project on international crises and global governance during the 1990s which focuses upon notions of international responsibility, humanitarian intervention, the United Nations and concepts of world ordering, and evolving ideas of human security.

Fabian is an Oxford Martin Visiting Fellow with the Oxford Martin Programme on Changing Global Orders.

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