{"id":4166,"date":"2022-12-13T13:42:09","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T12:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.cerge-ei.cz\/?p=4166"},"modified":"2022-12-13T13:44:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T12:44:00","slug":"gerard-roland-empires-nation-states-and-democracies-perspectives-on-the-war-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cerge-ei.cz\/?p=4166","title":{"rendered":"G\u00e9rard Roland: Empires, Nation States, and Democracies: Perspectives on the War in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Empires, nation states, and democracies: Perspectives on the war in Ukraine is what our anchor, Katar\u00edna Stehl\u00edkov\u00e1, has discussed with our special guest, prof. G\u00e9rard Roland from the University of California, Berkeley<\/strong>\u00a0in the latest episode of\u00a0Talking Economics<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cFor a very long time, international relations were dominated by rivalries between empires. To understand today\u2019s situation,\u201d\u00a0<\/em>Prof. Roland explains,\u00a0\u201cyou still have some empires. You have nation states and you have democracies, and they behave in a different way. Empires typically have a natural tendency towards expansion (\u2026) because expansion of territory gives land, gives resources. Russia, and certainly Putin, see the world as the world of empires. His worldview is that of the 19th<\/sup>\u00a0century when the world was composed of empires and in that situation, it is completely legitimate for an empire to expand. Ukraine, on the other hand, showed the will to become a genuine democracy and this is a worldview that completely clashes with Putin\u2019s imperialistic worldview.<\/em>\u00a0(\u2026) What\u2019s happening in Ukraine is not just about Russia. It\u2019s really about the future of the international order. Are we going back to international order based on imperialism and power relations or are we going to move further? \u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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Professor G\u00e9rard Roland is a member of CERGE-EI\u2019s Executive and Supervisory Committee, an E. Morris Cox Professor of Economics, and Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. His early work includes political economy of communism. He has been one of the world’s most renowned and influential scholars in transition economics since 1990. His work also focuses on the impact of culture and political institutions on the prosperity of countries.<\/p>\n

You can listen to the Podcast\u00a0on:\u00a0\u00a0Spotify<\/a>,\u00a0\u00a0Google Podcasts<\/a>,\u00a0\u00a0Apple Podcasts<\/a>, and\u00a0YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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