David Held

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1 The interview took place on April 2, 2012 in Melbourne, Australia.

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David Held is Master of University College, Durham and Professor of Politics and International Relations at Durham University. He is also the founding Director of the Global Policy Institute at Durham University, and Visiting Professor of Philosophy at LUISS University in Rome. A founder and Director of Polity Press, Held is also the founder of the prominent journal Global Policy. He holds a PhD in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is author of more than 60 written or edited books and an extensive number of academic articles on democracy, democratization, globalization, global governance, and global policy. David Held is one of the most influential Anglo-American political theorist engaged in the project of ‘globalizing political theory’ beyond disciplinary boundaries and geographic borders while also grasping the theoretical significance of thickening forms of social interdependence nested under the keyword ‘globalization’. His writings on global democratic theory and global governance issues have greatly contributed to the evolution of the transdisciplinary field of global studies. Among his most recent publications are Gridlock: Why Global Cooperation is Failing When We Need it Most (2013), co-authored with Thomas Hale and Kevin Young, Cosmopolitanism: Ideals and Realities (2010), and Climate Governance in the Developing World, edited with Eva-Maria Nag and Charlie Roger (2013).