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The Rules of Peace and Prosperity: History, Economics and Politics (RPP)

A joint webinar between the Geneva Graduate Institute Hoffmann Centre for Global Sustainability and the CEPR Economic History Programme Area and the Preventing Conflict: Policies for Peace RPN.

The aim of this webinar is to bring together top-level expertise from economics, history and political science to debate the importance, evolution and stability of a rule-based order—domestically and internationally. Possible topics include: the origins of the domestic rule of law and of international rules- based multilateralism; the relation between rules-based orders, economic prosperity and peace; the use of economic power for political aims and the stability of economic and political orders. We seek to bring an interdisciplinary approach to these topics by combining deep historical knowledge with frontier theory and empirical methodology from economics and political science.

The sessions of The Rules of Peace and Prosperity: History, Economics and Politics (RPP) will run monthly during academic term time at 5pm CET (Paris/ Geneva/ Rome time) and will run for 75 minutes over Zoom

Each webinar consists of a 40-minute presentation, followed by 20 minutes of Q&A and 15 minutes of open discussion. During the presentation, the audience is automatically muted and may submit questions using the Q&A tool. The host collects clarifying questions and a few questions of general interest and relays them to the speaker at intervals, ensuring the flow of the seminar. During the open discussion, participants may raise their hand to ask questions live, directly to the speaker.

 

Session 1: 

December 4th, 2025: James Robinson (University of Chicago and CEPR) presents "Rules or People?" 

Session 2: 

February 12th, 2026: TBA 

Session 3: 

March 12th, 2026: TBA

Session 4: 

April 9th: Gerard Roland (UC Berkeley and CEPR) presents "Hobbesian Wars and Separation of Powers". 

Session 5: 

May 14th, 2026: TBA