From the Great Divergence to the nature of historical scholarship, our conversation with Professor Gagan Sood continues.

Today we discuss The End of History and the Great Divergence with Professor Gagan Sood of the London School of Economics.

Professor Kerstin Carlson joins Tocqueville 21 for a discussion on human rights, social justice, and Bill Cosby.

Kerstin Bree Carlson is Associate Professor teaching international law and human rights related topics at Roskilde University in Denmark and The American University of Paris. She received her BA from The Johns Hopkins University, and her JD and PhD from University of California, Berkeley. She is the recipient of two Fulbright Fellowships, the first to Croatia and the second to UNESCO in Paris. She speaks French, Spanish, Danish, Russian and Serbo-Croatian.

Kerstin has published several academic books, book chapters and articles on international criminal law and transitional justice, including Model(ing) Justice: Perfecting the Promise of International Criminal Law (Cambridge University Press 2018) and The President on Trial: Prosecuting Hissène Habré (Oxford University Press 2020). Her first book for a general audience, The Justice Laboratory: Internationalizing Law in Africa (Chatham House/Brookings), which examines how international criminal law fails to support the rule of law in Africa, is forthcoming in fall 2021. She is also a frequent contributor to the blog The Conversation. Her current research focuses on bias in international and domestic criminal law.

Geopolitical analyst Peter Zeihan joins Tocqueville 21 to discuss the course of American foreign policy in the post Cold War world. This is the first episode in a series on Francis Fukuyama's End of History.

A prolific author, public speaker, and founder of Zeihan on Geopolitics, Peter Zeihan has three books currently available for purchase, the latest of which is Disunited Nations: The Scramble for Power in an Ungoverned World (2020). His fourth book, Life After the End of the World, is highly anticipated and awaiting a publication date in 2022.

For more information, please visit Peter Zeihan's website: zeihan.com

Image credits for the likeness of Peter Zeihan to Zeihan on Geopolitics.

Intro and Outro credits: "Waltz (Tschikovsky Op. 40)" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Art Goldhammer joins the Tocqueville 21 team to discuss French politics and the upcoming presidential elections.