Roundtable Discussion:
Globalization After The Crisis

Friday, November 13
Sterling Memorial Library Lecture Hall - 2:00 to 4:00 p.m.
120 Wall Street

The previous era of globalization really ended with the Great Depression. Although it is yet to be known how long and deep the present global recession will be, it is timely to start wondering whether and how it will affect today's globalization. Will the crisis be just a bump in the road or will it mean a major disruption of the trend that started to develop after the end of the Second World War and accelerated over the last three decades? Or, will it eventually become a positive stimulus for undertaking reforms, both at the national and international levels, which will provide enhanced viability to the process so that we could see further intensification of interdependence in the years to come.

Introduction of Topic and Participants

• Moderator: Ernesto Zedillo, Frederick Iseman '74 Director, Yale Center for the Study of Globalization

• Jagdish Bhagwati, University Professor, Columbia University

• Niall Ferguson, Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University and William Ziegler Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School

• Harold James, Professor of History and International Affairs Princeton University

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