6 TED Talks that International Relations Students Should attend

        The discipline of international relations within political science has been increasingly active and important in contemporary debates as it embraces a very wide range of themes that reach a myriad of problems that preoccupy modern man as the issue of rivalry and cooperation between states, International political economy, transnational crimes, intergovernmental organizations, terrorism, human rights, global ethics, nongovernmental organizations, environment, conflict resolution, globalization, international history, foreign policy and many others. States still play the leading role an actor on the world political scene, although some authors have argued that other actors have a notorious participation like International Organizations and Nongovernmental Organizations, and some critics advocate that the nation-state as we know it is dying.
           Whether you are a student of international relations, political science or a global citizen who is increasingly interested in what is happening in the world today, you should like the selection of TED Talks videos that we share for you.
          The TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) is a series of conferences with several experts held in various places for the diffusion of good ideas on the most varied topics, its collection has more than 2400 lectures.
      The first three lectures we have discussed address a theme that has plagued international political scientists with the possibility of changing a unipolar power system in which the United States plays a leading role as the world's great superpower for a future multipolar power system in which other actors are also predominant.The other videos deal with other global issues with different perspectives of reality such as the question of the individual's role in the international system, global voices or cultural diversity in the world.
        There are 6 lectures that will motivate you to reflect on the current world and its problems and question the future of the international system as we know it.
             
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1-Joseph Nye: global power shift

         Nye focuses on discussing power in the twenty-first century, the possibility of eventual power shifts, the first occurs between the transition of power between states and the second occurs between the diffusion of power to non-state actors in the international system, and how two has interacted. In this lecture Nye reflects on the possibility of the ascension narrative of the East, or as it calls "return" from Asia, and how this view may be to be misleading in the short term.

2-Paddy Ashdown: The global power shift.

          The speaker presents the argument that we are at an uncertain time in the history of change of power, for Paddy Ashdown states will have a great challenge that will be to bring governance to the global space. In its conception world power has flowed both sideways and horizontally in the world system.

3-Hans Rosling: on the rise of Asia.

            Hans Rosling notes that the West will not forever dominate the world, and predicts through statistical data that Asia has economically reached the developed countries in the future. And estimates the  year that China and India will have per capita income close to the US and UK

4-Ethan Zuckerman-Hearing Global Voices

           Zuckerman brings important insights into the globalization process, and as the world is increasingly intertwined, the internet in applications such as twitter reveals a presence of the most diverse populations in the world, but reflects that the international media is not yet a democratic space for the various global voices.

5-Gordon Brown: On Global Ethics vs. National Interest

          Gordon Brown's first minister of United Kingdom in an interview talks about global ethics, and expresses the view that a government can try to converge national interest and global ethics, and encourages the thinking that countries should work on common causes, thereby creating greater links with a stronger global society in the future.

6-Shakira Al Mayassa: Globalizing the site, locating the global.

          Shakira Al Mayassa states that the world is gradually globalizing and modernizing, but there has also been space for differences of individuals and states, that is, cultural diversity.

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