
Event recording | New Cold War? Online book colloquium: Comity by Frank Vibert
Discussion around Frank Vibert’s new book: Comity: Multilateralism in the New Cold War.

Discussion around Frank Vibert’s new book: Comity: Multilateralism in the New Cold War.

Professor Richard Caplan, from Oxford University, offers observations on a normative approach to the “new cold war”, questioning cooperation between like-minded democracies as a solution to issues of global governance.

Professor Michael Gordon, from Liverpool University, emphasises the need of going beyond the binary distinction between Parliamentary Sovereignty and Federalism in discussing the unity of the UK.

Professor Christopher McCrudden, from Queen’s University Belfast, argues that trust in the Union has significantly disappeared judged by a set of criteria: consent, material self-interest, individual and collective rights, and emotional attachment.

This report identifies Europe’s digital interests and analyses the perceived risks associated with Chinese tech companies, based on which it proposes a number of policy recommendations for European countries.

Richard W. Clary, from Harvard Law School, provides a summary of the model of American federalism and of the lessons to be learned from this system.
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