'What does "Chai Wai" mean?' you're asking yourself.
'I get "chai"-- that means "tea". But what is this "wai" business?' you say.
Fear not, wise traveler! We have answers!
Chai Wai is Hindi for "tea or something like that" and is the name of our event series at the International and Area Studies Library at UIUC. Chai Wai events give the campus community an opportunity for enlightened conversation on important global issues. This conversation will be informed and guided by a moderator and 4 experts in the issues at hand.
Come bring your own thoughts, questions and ideas and enjoy free tea and refreshments on Wednesday, January 25th at 2pm!
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Steve Witt, Associate Professor and Head, International and Area Studies Library; Director, Center for Global Studies
Lynne Rudasill, Global Studies Librarian
Lisa Renee Kemplin, Library Operations Associate
Lindsay Ozburn, Graduate Assistant
For our first Chai Wai event of the Spring 2017 semester, we will explore global challenges under the new U.S. administration with a panel that includes seasoned scholars discussing climate issues and the Paris Accords, human rights, trade, and issues of migration.
Climate: Trevor Birkenholtz, Associate Professor of Geography and Geographic Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Human Rights: Patrick Keenan, Professor of Law, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Trade: Hadi Esfahani, Professor of Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Migration: Metka Hercog, Lecturer of LAS Global Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Niala Boodhoo, Host of “The 21st Show” on WILL Radio as moderator
Globalization is pushing to the fore a wide variety of global problems that demand urgent policy attention. Managing Global Issues provides a comprehensive comparative assessment of international efforts to manage global problems. It identifies and explains successes and failures of such efforts, examines the roles of different actors, and outlines lessons that may guide future action by governments, international organizations, nongovernmental organizations, and the private sector. The volume's 16 case studies examine organized crime, drugs, corruption, human rights, labor rights, health, trade, financial markets, development assistance, the environment, the global commons, communications, weapons of mass destruction, conventional weapons, internal conflicts, and refugees. Managing Global Issues is the result of an international multidisciplinary research team composed of experts in specific global issue areas. The book's broad scope, numerous case studies and its rigorous comparative analytical framework offers a unique and valuable contribution to the rapidly growing literature on global governance.
This collection of papers offers a new rationale and framework for international development cooperation. Its main argument is that in actual practice, development cooperation has already moved beyond aid (i.e. assistance to poor countries) and onto issues such as the ozone hole, global climate change, HIV, drug trafficking, and financial volatility. Contributors include Amartya K. Sen, the 1998 Nobel Laureate in Economics, Barry Eichengreen of the International Monetary Fund, Ruben Mendez of the United Nations and Yale University, and many others.
The book develops globalization as the emergence of a global society; presents a theory of governance predicable of all human societies, revolving around competing Order, Welfare, and Legitimacy (OWL) imperatives; and identifies fundamental flaws in the democratic solutions to global governance. To ensure that the democratic promise survives and thrives, the volume calls for fundamental reforms of the democratic project as prerequisites to deter and defeat formidable anti-democratic adversaries: authoritarian states, religiously informed regimes opposed to open societies; nihilistic social movements; self-styled terrorists, and vast transnational criminal networks.
