Resource person: Pam Petrie

Location: Nanoose Place Community Centre | 2925 Northwest Bay Road, Nanoose Bay, BC, V9P 9E6

Description:

The Prime Minister of Canada delivered a eulogy for the Rules-Based International Order at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Mr. Carney described the RBIO as a “fiction” that was “partially false,” and suggests that we should not mourn its passing, but the implications of the shattering of world order are immense for a middle power like Canada. We are now in a world characterized by the return of great power conflict; a great economic regression; and a global democratic recession. It’s time for Canada to wake up from its decadent assumptions and get serious about strategic leadership for our country.

Presenter: Dr Mark S. Williams is a professor of Political Studies and Global Studies at Vancouver Island University and an adjunct faculty member in Political Science at UBC. He is the president of the Vancouver Island Branch of the Canadian International Council, a non-partisan think tank and democratic forum on Canadian foreign policy that has been in existence for nearly a century.

Mark is the editor of The Politics of the Asia-Pacific: Triumphs, Challenges, and Threats, published by the University of Toronto Press.

You can follow Mark’s ongoing social media production, @world.reordered, that chronicles the making and breaking of world order—its triumphs and tragedies—and the lessons it holds for our own perilous times.

Instagram Link: https://www.instagram.com/world.reordered/?hl=en

YouTube Shorts: https://www.youtube.com/@World.ReOrdered/shorts

Tik Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@world.reordered

Available spots: 150 out of 150

Price: $10.00 Taxes included

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