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The Asia Security Initiative Research Center at the East Asia Institute invited Professor Friedrich Kratochwil (European University Institute) for the 20th Smart Talk Forum on Monday November 7, 2011. The topic of the seminar was "The Dark Sides of Global Governance: Unresolved Issues in Theory and Practice.”

“The Dark Sides of Global Governance: Unresolved Issues in Theory and Practice“

Friedrich Kratochwil, Professor of European University Institute

Young-Sun Ha, Professor of Seoul National University

Sung Ho Kim, Professor of Yonsei University

Sook-Jong Lee, President of the East Asia Institute

Shin-wha Lee, Professor of Korea University

Chaesung Chun, Professor of Seoul National University

Friedrich Kratochwil studied Classics, Philosophy and Political Science in Munich and received as a Fulbright scholar an MA in international Politics from Georgetown University (1969) and a PhD from Princeton (1976). He taught at Maryland, Princeton, Columbia, Denver and Pennsylvania, before returning (1995) to Germany and taking the chair in international Politics at the European University Institute in Florence. He has published widely on International Relations, social theory, international organization and international law in US and European journals. His latest book (2011), just published by Routledge, is entitled The Puzzles of Politics. Presently he is working on a manuscript entitled The Practice of (inter)national Politics. Prof. Kratochwil was appointed to the Chair of International Relations, and joined the department on 1 April 2003.