The lecture will show how the challenges we face in our ever more interconnected world are far from new. Drawing on the history of the first half of the twentieth century, the lecture argues that it is better to see the challenge as one of turbulence, not shocks versus stability. This shows how shocks and their management are not confined to specific sectors of global governance, such as health or finance. And it asks what place for regions given that for most of the twentieth century all discussions about world order also involved asking questions about the relationship between the regional and the global, particularly in relation to Europe.

Patricia Clavin is Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford, a Professorial Fellow of Worcester College, and a Fellow of the Oxford Martin School. She was awarded the British Academy Medal in 2015, and a Major Leverhulme Research Fellowship in 2016. She is a Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Historical Society and a Foreign Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. She is an Associated Researcher with the Centre Marc Bloch Berlin, and serves on the Editorial Board of the journal Past & Present.

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AN OXFORD-BERLIN LECTURE

This lecture is a cooperation between the Centre for British Studies and the Franco-German Centre Marc Bloch, associated institute of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.