Pardee Faculty Book Talk: Professor Cornel Ban

Join us for a Pardee Faculty Book Talk with Cornel Ban, Assistant Professor of International Relations at BU's Pardee School of Global Studies and author of Ruling Ideas: How Global Neoliberalism Goes Local (Oxford University Press, July 2016).

By comparing the moderate neoliberalism that prevails in Spain with the more radical one that shapes policy thinking in Romania, Cornel Ban explains why neoliberal hybrids take the forms that they do and how they survive crises. Ruling Ideas covers an extended historical period, starting with the Franco period in Spain and the Ceausescu period in Romania, discusses the economic integration of these countries into the EU, and continues through Europe's Great Recession and the European debt crisis. The broad historical coverage enables a careful analysis of how neoliberalism rules in times of stability and crisis and under different political systems.

Open to BU faculty, staff, and graduate students. RSVP to eventsps@bu.edu.