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From: Intelligence Squared To: j leevacation@gmail.com> Subject: Major Event with Jeffrey Sachs and Laura Kuenssberg: Last Few Tickets Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 16:51:47 +0000 !intelligence —b,runvaru to a menu view In oruwber Ara gJeffrey Sachs on America and a New World Order Tuesday 21st Feb. 7pm. RGS Speaker Donald Trump has been in office for less than a month and there Jeffrey D. Sachs have already been worldwide protests at his 'travel ban' on Renowned professor of economics, and one of citizens entering the US from seven largely Muslim countries and the world's leading experts in sustainable other controversial pronouncements. development and the fight against poverty. He is a bestselling author, and his monthly Not every liberal thinker, however, is in a state of despair. Take newspaper columns appear in more than 100 Jeffrey Sachs, recently ranked by The Economist as one of the countries. He is the co-recipient of the 2015 worlds most influential political scientists, who comes to the Blue Planet Prize, the top global prize for Intelligence Squared stage next Tuesday February 21st. environmental leadership. He is a professor at Interviewing him will be Laura Kuenssberg, the BBC's star Columbia University and is Special Advisor to political editor who hit the headlines and caused a social media UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on the storm a couple of weeks ago with her stern questioning of Trump Sustainable Development Goals, and during his joint press conference with Prime Minister Theresa previously on the Millennium Development May. Goals. His latest book is Building the New American Economy: Smart, Fair & Sustainable. While no Trump supporter himself, Sachs will explain why there may be silver linings to the Trump cloud. Chair When it comes to trade. Trump has threatened to tear up Nafta, slam huge taxes on Mexican imports, and has already withdrawn Laura Kuenssberg the US from the Trans-Pacific Partnership to bring jobs back to the The BBC's Political Editor since 2015. Before heartlands of America. While this strikes tear amongst free-trade that, she was BBC's Newsnight Chief supporters, there is a case to be made that globalisation has been Correspondent and Presenter. Formerly moving faster than is politically sustainable, dividing rich from Business Editor for IN and Chief Political poor. Or take Trump's proposal to invest $1 trillion in Correspondent for the BBC. infrastructure. Sachs has described this promise to rebuild America's decrepit inner cities, highways, schools and hospitals as 'a valid, indeed uplifting perspective', provided it is done in a smart and fair way. Trump's programme could be viewed as a Vr Keynesian fiscal policy to boost competitiveness and job creation. It may, Sachs believes, be Trump's great legacy. And then there's foreign policy. As Sachs will point out. Trump has filled his administration not just with protectionists but also with business people like himself, who enjoy making a buck (in fact, billions of them) and who have profitably invested for years in EFTA00635938 Russia, China, and other emerging economies. So while the rhetoric may be all about American primacy and trade protection, we shouldn't rule out some friendly deal making with other countries. And while Trump's future relations with Russia remain obscure, would it necessarily be a dangerous move if he pursues his 'bromance' with Vladimir Putin? Isn't it time there were a better understanding between both countries? Sachs will argue that we are entering not a new tripolar world, dominated by the US. China and Russia. but what he calls 'the World Century', in which the rapid spread of technology and the sovereignty of nation states mean that no single country or region will dominate the world. The idea that one place or people should have primacy over any other should be as antiquated as slavery or empire, and guard us against the senseless descent into violence. Join us for this special event at the Royal Geographical Society, hear the argues and have your chance to put your questions to Professor Sachs in person. r-grwmcr TOUI000 ct, 30unacmua Intelligence Squared is proudly supported by its media partner VANITY FAIR Unsubscribe Intelligence' Ltd, Newcombe House, 45 Notting Hill Gate, London WII 3LQ Copyright © Intelligence' Ltd. All rights reserved. EFTA00635939