Sir Douglas Robb Lectures 2011
Tariq Ali on empire and its futures
A series of three lectures by Tariq Ali.
- 2011 Sir Douglas Robb Lecture 1 - Tariq Ali
Tariq Ali explores the contemporary landscape of Islam, focusing on the Middle East, analysing the challenges for Western governments which have supported the regimes now being overthrown by internal rebellions. (49′56″)
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- 2011 Sir Douglas Robb Lecture 2 - Tariq Ali
Tariq Ali considers how USA power has played out across the world, arguing that although its imperial ambitions have been manifested for centuries, overstretch is beginning to set in. (51′03″)
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- 2011 Sir Douglas Robb Lecture 3 - Tariq Ali
According to Tariq Ali, global markets have moved eastwards towards China. He considers where this superpower on the rise will be in thirty years' time. (49′37″)
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About The Tariq Ali Lectures
In a changing world with American military power transcending US economic weaknesses, the amazing rise of China and the continuing occupations in the Arab world and South Asia, what are the likely outcomes? Is it the case, as many argue, that the US empire is now in irretrievable decline? Will China flex its military muscles one day?
Tariq Ali
London-based and published on every continent, Tariq Ali has been a leading figure of the international left since the 1960s. He is an editor of New Left Review and has written more than 20 books on world history and politics as well as seven novels. Born in Pakistan he attended Oxford University where he became involved in student politics and the movement against the Vietnam war. He is a critic of neoliberal economics and his book The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity was a response to 9/11. His latest book is The Obama Syndrome: War Abroad.
The Douglas Robb Lectures
The Robb lectures are named in honour of Sir Douglas Robb, surgeon, medical reformer, writer, a member of the Council of the University of Auckland from 1938 until 1971 and Chancellor from 1962 until 1968.
