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This is great! I have a copy of Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century
but I doubt I will get it read in time. Here’s the details:
CTlab’s second symposium in its 2009 series starts next week, on Monday, 30 March, and will run for four days, until 2 April (or until participants run out of steam, which might take longer). The subject: Peter Singer’s new book, Wired For War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century (Penguin Press: 2009).
This is going to be an exciting booklab, on a work that’s been getting broad exposure, in an out of the blogosphere. Peter Singer, a Brookings Institution Senior Fellow for Foreign Policy, and Director of its 21st Century Defense Initiative, will be participating on day 1. Proceedings will be compiled and indexed on a separate page for ease of reference, here.
Confirmed participants include:
- Kenneth Anderson (Law; American University)
- Matt Armstrong (Public Diplomacy; Armstrong Strategic Insights Group)
- John Matthew Barlow (History; John Abbott College)
- Rex Brynen (Political Science; McGill University)
- Antoine Bousquet (International Relations; Birkbeck College, London)
- Charli Carpenter (International Relations; UMass-Amherst)
- Andrew Conway (Political Science; NYU)
- Jan Federowicz (History; Carleton University)
- John T. Fishel (National Security Policy; University of Oklahoma)
- Michael A. Innes (Political Science; University College London)
- Martin Senn (Political Science; University of Innsbruck)
- Marc Tyrrell (Anthropology; Carleton University)
That’s it!
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Eddie:
March 24th, 2009 at 1:03 pm
Where will that capital go to?
EU countries? Doubtful with the mess they are digging themselves further into.
Japan? Collapsing economy with even worse political leadership than here.
South Korea? Maybe.
China? Potentially, but do they really trust the Chinese gov’t to respect their assets in a crisis?
Canada? Definitely possible. Though with Harper and the Liberals you can never be sure where Canada is going to end up even in the next 3-4 years.
No country is really impressive in how they have handled the economic crisis, not exactly inspiring confidence at all. If America’s prestige is falling, it would seem no one else is rising at this time, premature delusions of grandeur the Chinese have not withstanding.
joey:
March 24th, 2009 at 2:13 pm
IMF reserve currency?
Read as a stalking horse for the Riminbi. If the dollar is approaching the end of its run as the reserve currency (if) what are the alternatives? The Euro?, the Yen? doubtful for different reasons. The only one real alternate to the dollar is the Riminbi (its the only one which for fills your critera), the whole IMF thing is a way of indirectly shining the light on the elephant in the room.
Dave Schuler:
March 24th, 2009 at 7:18 pm
We’ve commented on Zhou’s proposal over at OTB. James’s view is somewhat different from mine. IMO the notion that the value of the dollar is too influenced by political concerns while an IMF currency wouldn’t be is beyond absurd. Howsomever the Chinese are free to put forward the yuan as a world currency if they’d like.
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When taken to its logical conclusion this is a call for a return to species currency. Not surprising for a country holding a lot of paper.
Dave Schuler:
March 24th, 2009 at 7:43 pm
You might be interested in Brad Setser’s comments on Zhou’s proposal. He’s an economist who follows China pretty closely.
Jay:
March 24th, 2009 at 8:16 pm
Thanks much for the nod, Z.
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