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MIT GHI Spring 2025 Events | 3rd GHI Forum: Good Governance in Bad Times

Dear colleagues, students, and friends, Join us for the 2025 GHI 3rd Forum! This session introduces the GHI Pillar Good Governance in Bad Times, in particular the project Comparative Diplomacies for Global Governance. The coordinators of the pillar invite participants to explore how we might study models of governance that have historically promoted cooperation, human flourishing, and social justice, with new comparative knowledge of concepts and practices of governance in deep time and space. 3rd GHI Forum Title: Good Governance in Bad Times Date: June 6, 10:00–11:30 AM EDT Where: Online (Zoom link HERE) Speakers: Michael Puett, Johannes Makar, Wiebke Denecke Special Guests: Minjee Baek (Consul of the Republic of Korea), Giles Scott-Smith (Dean of Leiden University College The Hague; Founding Editor of Diplomatica. A Journal of Diplomacy and Society) 【Abstract】 What makes political systems last and, more importantly, what enables them to support human flourishing and social justice? And when they falter, as many do, how can we understand their failures and imagine their repair? This panel discusses the work of GIH’s Good Governance in Bad Times pillar. The pillar explores models of governance from global history that have worked to foster cohesion and cooperation. Through key sources in world literature, philosophy, and political thought, it examines the forms of political imagination […]

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