What Did 2021 Teach Us About International Affairs?
In reflecting on 2021, Pardee School faculty offer their thoughts on the lessons that can be gleaned from this past year. Chief among the responses: multilateralism and global democracy are in decline.
Najam Discusses Pakistan’s Climate Diplomacy at ISSI Lecture
Dean Najam states that countries like Pakistan will have to bear the maximum cost of climate change, hence, Pakistan has to change its efforts both nationally and internationally to address the issue diplomatically and make it a diplomatic cause.
Najam Keynote Explores Issues of Human Security and Development
“This is the age of adaptability. Climate change is no longer a future issue. Anyone who talks about it as if it is a future issue is lying.”
Najam Interviewed on Global Politics and U.S.-China Tensions
Dean Najam argues that the world is clearly in a moment of global flux, and “it is the uncertainty of how things might change within the certainty that they are changing that makes our times so interesting, but also so potentially dangerous.”
Najam Keynote Addresses Population Challenges in an Ever-Changing World
Dean Najam’s remarks highlighted three areas that population experts, demographers, and social scientists will have to confront.
Najam Discusses Environmental Policy at UN EMG’s Stockholm+50
Dean Najam suggests that, while much has happened because of the Stockholm conference, much of its agenda remains a work in progress and that this fact would have greatly disturbed the architects of the original conference.
Najam Discusses Future of Pakistan’s Climate Policy on “Climate Mahaul”
Najam and host Huma Yusuf reflect on the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) and offer thoughts on how Pakistan – a country that emits less than 1% of global greenhouse gases but counts among the most climate-vulnerable – should craft its climate policy.
Najam Delivers Annual Sarfraz Pakistan Lecture on Climate Change
According to Dean Najam, the world is now living in the Age of Adaptation, and ignoring the impacts of climate change is no longer a luxury that any country can afford, least of all Pakistan, which is economically impoverished and climatically imperiled.
Najam Keynotes Karachi International Water Conference
Dean Najam highlights that, because of the failures of the world’s richest and polluted countries, the harsh realities of climate change are now actively affecting the world’s poorest and most vulnerable countries
Najam Offers Thoughts on Biden-Xi Virtual Summit
One issue Dean Najam hopes the United States and China can work together on is climate change arguing that as the world’s two top polluters, the U.S. and China need to find ways to coordinate climate mitigation efforts.
Najam Interviewed on Climate Change and Displacement
“In some ways, we lie to ourselves when we talk about climate as something that is going to happen. By my estimation for at least about two and a half billion people climate change is a reality today.”
Najam Keynotes VIDC/IIASA Event on Climate and Displacement
Dean Najam expressed disappointment with COP26 and climate activists whose increased interest and awareness of the climate crises have not translated to actionable change, noting that aspiration is not a replacement for action, and neither is anger.
Najam Interviewed on Climate Change Impacts and COP26
According to Dean Najam, “a temperature rise of two degrees would lead to more than two billion people fleeing. The international community must adjust to this.”
Najam Keynotes Conference on “The Post-COVID Political Agenda”
Drawing on lessons learned from the Pardee Center’s “World After Coronavirus” series, Dean Najam highlighted that COVID has alerted us to constantly interrogate the meaning of ‘normal’ and that the world before COVID was itself full of challenges and turmoil that have, in many cases, taken on new dimensions because of the pandemic.
Najam Interviewed on Global Inequality and “The World After Coronavirus”
The world was already complicated before COVID-19, but Pardee School Dean Adil Najam has wondered if the pandemic has given us the opportunity to reconfigure it.
Najam Discusses Global Climate Action In Anticipation of COP26
Dean Najam argues that the climate diplomacy exercise has mostly been a failure and climate negotiators have now gotten into a well-rehearsed routine that merely prolongs the status quo, a sad fact considering the continued marginalization of developing countries’ concerns from the global climate agenda.
Najam Quoted on U.S. Relationship with Pakistan
“I’ve argued for a very long time that it isn’t even a relationship…The U.S. doesn’t trust Pakistan, and there is no one in Pakistan who trusts the U.S. But there is a sense that they need each other.”
Najam Delivers Talk on International Climate Negotiations for MGA Network
Dean Najam argues that despite the enhanced global attention, climate talks have become a ritual in “talk and talk” and very little action, especially by the major industrialized countries.
Najam Interviewed on Nobel Peace Prize Winners
In his TRT World appearance, Dean Najam comments on the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize winners and how this prize in particular is a message for freedom of the press and expression.
Pardee School Faculty Explore Pressing Foreign and Domestic Issues
Dean Najam leads Professors Mako, Stern, and Wippl in a discussion about their areas of expertise and how they see these fields evolving in an ever-changing world.