The Global Wire Conversation - The Future of the European Idea and Identity with Anthony Pagden

In today's conversation Ralph speaks with Professor Anthony
Pagden of UCLA about his writings as well as the future of the
European Idea and European Identity. This conversation is also
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Anthony Pagden was educated in Santiago (Chile) London, Barcelona
and Oxford and holds a B.A.. M.A. and D.Phil. from the University
of Oxford. He has been a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, Senior
Research Fellow of the Warburg Institute (London), Professor of
History at the European University Institute (Florence),
University Reader in Intellectual History and Fellow of King’s
College, Cambridge and the Harry C. Black Professor of History at
Johns Hopkins. His research has concentrated on the relationship,
cultural, political and legal, between the peoples of Europe and
its overseas settlements and those of the non-European world from
the Atlantic to the Pacific. His main concern is in the political
theory of empire, in how the West sought to explain to itself how
and why it had come to dominate so much of the world, and in the
present consequences of the erosion of that domination. He has
also written widely about cosmopolitanism, nationalism,
internationalism and about the history and the future of the
European Union. He is the author of more than a dozen books many
of which have been translated into a number of European and Asian
languages. His most recent publications include The Enlightenment
– and why it still matters (Random House and Oxford University
Press) in 2013, and in 2015, The Burdens of Empire: 1539 to the
Present (Cambridge University Press). He has also written for the
New Republic, the National Interest the New York Times, the Los
Angeles Times, El Pais (Spain) Il Sole 24 Ore (Italy) the London
Review of Books and the Times Literary Supplement. He teaches
classes in the history of political thought from the sixteenth to
the nineteenth century, in the theory of international relations,
and seminars on imperialism and nationalism and on the theory of
racism and ethnicity since antiquity.