Harnessing Global Diversity: A Public Lecture from Pascal Lamy

Berikut ini, sedikit hasil dari public lecture oleh Pascal Lamy (General-Director WTO) dalam rangka Panglaykim Memorial Lecture 2011, hasil kerja sama Panglaykim Foundation dan CSIS pada 14 Juni 2011. Semoga bermanfaat (dan semoga saya nggak salah quote he he he).

With the culture, religious, and bio diversity, Indonesia is a perfect reflection of world greatest challenge: harnessing global diversity. #PL

Globalization dominates our era, but it is an increasingly fragile dominance. #PL

Global integration delivers benefits: growing wealth, technology, the rise of people in the developing world, etc. #PL

But it also creates new risks: financial instability, economic imbalances, environmental stresses, inequalities, etc. #PL

Market and technology are pushing us together, but political pressures risk pulling us apart. #PL

Lamy quoted Marx about capitalism’s inherent tension and contradictions. Market capitalism contains the seed of its own destruction. #PL

Market capitalism transforms economies: innovation, risk-taking, competition, the survival of the economically fittest. #PL

But market capitalism also has power to disrupt, overturn, and breed social insecurity and conflict. #PL

An integrated global economy requires political consensus and cooperation to sustain it. #PL

By transforming the economic and social order, globalized market capitalism also risks weakening the political foundation on which it rests. #PL

But the answer is not Marxist revolution. It’s political evolution, re-embedding markets in a re-invented social and political order. #PL

Globalization is a revolutionary force. Open and interconnect world, that wealth is spreading, knowledge is expanding, health is improving. #PL

Yet, globalization remains a discontented dream. The recent financial crisis, the worried about unemployment, the safety of food. #PL

Re-inventing our institutions is not about building more agencies. It’s about networking institutions in a better way. #PL

This leads to the challenge of policy coherence. As the world has grown more integrated and policy making has become more complicated. #PL

The real challenge today is to change our way of thinking, not just our system, institutions or policies. #PL

The future lies with more globalization, more cooperation, more interaction between peoples and cultures. #PL

It’s “unity in our global diversity”, or to quote Indonesia’s national motto: “Bhinneka Tunggal Ika”, that we need today. #PL

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