Events › Scholars' Hub @ Home: America at the Edge of History: Expansion, power, and the fragile world order

Boyd Cothran, Professor of History, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies.

This talk traces how the optimism of the post–Cold War era gave way to a renewed age of American expansion, military intervention, and great-power rivalry. Moving from the 1990s through 9/11, the war on terror, financial crisis, and climate and pandemic shocks, today’s fragile world order reflects long-standing tensions between liberal ideals and the realities of power. The lecture concludes by engaging Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s recent Davos address, which frames the present moment as a historic rupture and forces a reckoning with what may come after the American-led order.

In partnership with YorkU | Scholars' Hub @ Home.

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