David Held

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David Jonathan Andrew HeldThe Cambridge University List of Members up to 31 December 1991, Cambridge University Press, 1991, p. 610{{Cite web|url=https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/officers/-kJViaXpp1VXvDWRBiptxd1TykA/appointments|title=David Jonathan Andrew HELD personal appointments - Find and update company information - GOV.UK}} (27 August 1951 – 2 March 2019){{cite web |last1=Blundell |first1=Lydia |title=Professor David Held dies aged 68 |url=https://www.palatinate.org.uk/professor-david-held-dies-aged-68/ |website=Palatinate.org.uk |date=4 March 2019 |access-date=5 March 2019}} was a British political scientist who specialised in political theory and international relations.Daniele Archibugi, [https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/mar/15/david-held-obituary David Held Obituary], The Guardian, 15 March 2019. He held a joint appointment as Professor of Politics and International Relations, and was Master of University College, at Durham University until his death. He was also a visiting Professor of Political Science at Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli. Previously he was the Graham Wallas chair of Political Science and the co-director of the Centre for the Study of Global Governance at the London School of Economics.{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2011/oct/31/saif-gaddafi-lse-academic | location=London | work=The Guardian | first=Jeevan | last=Vasagar | title=Academic linked to Gaddafi's fugitive son leaves LSE | date=31 October 2011}}

Together with Daniele Archibugi, Held had been prominent in the development of cosmopolitanism, and of cosmopolitan democracy in particular. He was an active scholar on issues of globalisation, global governance and was joint editor-in-chief of the academic journal Global Policy.{{cite journal | last = Staff writer | title = Editorial Board | journal = Global Policy | doi = 10.1111/(ISSN)1758-5899 }}

Biography

David Held was born to industrialist Peter Held and Gisela (née Wolff){{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/mar/15/david-held-obituary|title=David Held obituary|website=TheGuardian.com|date=15 March 2019}} in Britain where he spent most of his childhood. He took his undergraduate degree from the University of Manchester;{{Cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/david-held-death-political-scientist-lse-globalisation-democracy-gridlock-a8820681.html|title = Remembering David Held: Political scientist who unpacked the tango of globalisation and democracy|website = Independent.co.uk|date = 13 March 2019}} upon completing his doctoral studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology he conducted post-doctoral research at the University of Cambridge.The Cambridge University List of Members up to 31 December 1991, Cambridge University Press, 1991, p. 610 He held numerous visiting appointments in the United States, Australia, Canada, Spain and Italy, among other places.

Held co-founded Polity press in 1984, which has become a leading publisher in the social sciences and humanities across the world. He was also the general editor for Global Policy, an academic journal started in 2008 that focuses on bridging the gap between academics and practitioners on issues of global significance.

In January 2012, he succeeded Professor Maurice Tucker as Master of University College, Durham, alongside his chair in the School of Government and International Affairs at Durham University.{{cite news|url=http://www.palatinate.org.uk/?p=16306|work=Palatinate|last=Jonhson|first=Daniel|date=2 November 2011|title=Former LSE academic linked to Gaddafi's son made new Castle Master}}

Held died in College on 2 March 2019 after suffering ill health.{{Cite web|url=https://www.dur.ac.uk/university.college/about/staff/davidheld/|title=University College – David Held|last=Lawrie|first=Richard|website=University of Durham|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190310164439/https://www.dur.ac.uk/university.college/about/staff/davidheld/|archive-date=10 March 2019|access-date=10 March 2019}} He is survived by his wife, Psychoanalyst and Filmmaker [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1122580/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1 Francesca Joseph] and their two children Jacob and Zachary Joseph Held. He is also survived by Rosa and Josh Held, the children from a previous marriage to the novelist Michelle Spring.{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/mar/15/david-held-obituary|title=David Held obituary|website=TheGuardian.com|date=15 March 2019}}

==Research==

Since his first book was published in 1980 (Introduction to Critical Theory), David Held pursued a multilevel inquiry into the nature and changing form of national and international politics. This approach involved three kinds of work. First, it involved extensive empirical enquiry into the dynamic character, structural elements and governance failures of contemporary society. The empirical dimensions of his work included books such as Global Transformations (1999), Globalization/Anti-globalization (2007), Global Inequality (2007) and Gridlock: Why Global Cooperation is Failing When We Need it Most (2013). These books map the changing global context of politics, how the world has become increasingly interconnected, and how failures of leadership and negotiation at the global level are creating a breakdown of multilateralism and global governance.{{Citation needed|date=April 2013}}

Second, he was investigating the changing nature and form of the modern state and the locus of the political good. Held examined the question of whether the nation state alone, as typically assumed by political theory, can be the sole home of democracy, accountability and the rule of law. This entailed a critical evaluation of the concepts of democracy, sovereignty, governance and cosmopolitanism, among other concepts. Books that have explored these themes include: Democracy in the Global Order (1999), Models of Democracy (2006), Cosmopolitanism: ideals and realities (2010). {{Citation needed|date=April 2013}}

The third element of Held's work was to explore how and in what ways one can move beyond the crises and dilemmas of politics and governance in the contemporary world. Books such as Global Covenant (2004), Debating Globalization (2005) and a wide range of academic articles set out the contours of a multiactor, multilevel democratic politics framed by the fundamental principles of democracy, justice and sustainability.{{Citation needed|date=April 2013}}

Accordingly, Held's work explored, on the one hand, the shift in politics from nation states to what he called a world of 'overlapping communities of fate' (where the fortunes of countries are increasingly enmeshed) and, on the other hand, how democratic standards and cosmopolitan values can be entrenched in the global order. In pursuing this multilevel approach Held saw himself working within the classic tradition of political theory which has always been concerned with how to characterize the world in which we live, how to develop and reach normative goals such as liberty, democracy and social justice, and how to move from where we are to where we might like to be. Held's response to this challenge was to explore the way globalization has altered the landscape of politics{{Citation needed|date=April 2013}}, how cosmopolitanism provides ideals that enable one to rethink politics and the political good, and to pursue political stepping stones that could help embed this agenda. He offered a contribution to a pressing dialogue of our times: how to resolve collective action problems, nationally and globally, through institutions and governance arrangements that enhance democracy, social justice and the participation of all citizens in a democratic public life.

Links to Libya

In March, 2011, Held's name came to be linked with the LSE–Gaddafi affair. Held was an advisor of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, who received his PhD from LSE in 2008.Kristin Deasy. [http://www.rferl.org/content/qaddafi_junion_doctorate_london_school_of_economics/2318566.html "'The Role of Civil Society in the Democratisation of Global Governance Institutions.' Yes, Qaddafi Jnr. Wrote That"] Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

Selected

= Books =

{{cite book | last = Held | first = David | title = Introduction to critical theory: Horkheimer to Habermas | publisher = University of California Press | location = Berkeley | year = 1980 | isbn = 0520041755 }}
{{cite book | last = Held | first = David | title = States and societies | url = https://archive.org/details/statessocieties00held | url-access = registration | publisher = New York University Press | location = New York | year = 1983 | isbn = 9780814734223 }}
{{cite book | last = Held | first = David | title = Models of democracy | publisher = Stanford University Press | location = Stanford, California | edition = 3rd | year = 2006 | orig-year = 1987 | isbn = 9780804754729 }}
{{cite book | last = Held | first = David | title = Political theory and the modern state: essays on state, power, and democracy | url = https://archive.org/details/politicaltheorym00held | url-access = registration | publisher = Stanford University Press | location = Stanford, California | year = 1989 | isbn = 9780804717489 }}
{{cite book | last1 = Held | first1 = David | last2 = Thompson | first2 = John B. | title = Social theory of modern societies: Anthony Giddens and his critics | publisher = Cambridge University Press | location = Cambridge, UK New York, New York | year = 1989 | isbn = 9780521278553 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/socialtheoryofmo0000unse }}
{{cite book | last = Held | first = David | title = Introduction to critical theory: Horkheimer to Habermas | publisher = University of California Press | location = Berkeley | year = 1989 | isbn = 9780745607696 }}
{{cite book | last1 = Held | first1 = David | last2 = Hall | first2 = Stuart | last3 = McGrew | first3 = Anthony | author-link2 = Stuart Hall (cultural theorist) | title = Modernity and its futures | publisher = Polity Press in association with the Open University | location = Cambridge | year = 1992 | isbn = 9780745609669 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/modernityitsfutu0000unse }}
{{cite book | last = Held | first = David | title = Prospects for democracy : North, South, East, West | url = https://archive.org/details/prospectsfordemo00davi | url-access = registration | publisher = Polity Press | location = Cambridge, UK Malden, Massachusetts | year = 1993 | isbn = 9780804721936 }}
{{cite book | last1 = Held | first1 = David | last2 = Archibugi | first2 = Daniele | author-link2 = Daniele Archibugi | title = Democracy and the global order: from the modern state to cosmopolitan governance | publisher = Stanford University Press | location = Stanford, California | year = 1995 | isbn = 9780804726870 }}
{{cite book | last = Held | first = David | title = Cosmopolitanism: an agenda for a new world order | publisher = Polity Press | location = Cambridge, UK Malden, Massachusetts | year = 1995 | isbn = 9780745613819 }}
{{cite book | last1 = Held | first1 = David | last2 = Archibugi | first2 = Daniele | last3 = Koehler | first3 = Martin | author-link2 = Daniele Archibugi | title = Re-imagining political community: studies in cosmopolitan democracy | publisher = Stanford University Press | location = Stanford, California | year = 1998 | isbn = 9780804735353 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/reimaginingpolit00arch }}
{{cite book | last1 = Held | first1 = David | last2 = Goldblatt | first2 = David | last3 = McGrew | first3 = Anthony | last4 = Perraton | first4 = Jonathan | title = Global transformations: politics, economics and culture | publisher = Stanford University Press | location = Stanford, California | year = 1999 | isbn = 9780745614991 }}
{{cite book | last = Held | first = David | title = A globalizing world?: Culture, economics, politics | publisher = Routledge in association with the Open University | location = London New York | year = 2000 | isbn = 9780415222945 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/globalizingworld0000unse }}
{{cite book | last1 = Held | first1 = David | last2 = McGrew | first2 = Anthony | title = Globalization/anti-globalization: beyond the great divide | publisher = Polity Press | location = Cambridge, UK Malden, Massachusetts | year = 2007 | orig-year = 2002 | edition = 2nd | isbn = 9780745639116 }}
{{cite book | last1 = Held | first1 = David | last2 = Koenig-Archibugi | first2 = Mathias | title = Taming globalization: frontiers of governance | publisher = Polity Press | location = Cambridge, UK Malden, Massachusetts | year = 2003 | isbn = 9780745630779 }}
{{cite book | last = Held | first = David | title = Global covenant: the Social Democratic alternative to the Washington consensus | url = https://archive.org/details/globalcovenantso0000held | url-access = registration | publisher = Polity Press | location = Cambridge, UK Malden, Massachusetts | year = 2004 | isbn = 9780745633527 }}
{{cite book | last1 = Held | first1 = David | last2 = Koenig-Archibugi | first2 = Mathias | title = Global governance and public accountability | publisher = Wiley-Blackwell | location = Oxford, UK | year = 2005 | isbn = 9781405126786 }}
{{cite book | last1 = Held | first1 = David | last2 = Kaya | first2 = Ayse | title = Global inequality: patterns and explanations | publisher = Polity Press | location = Cambridge, UK Malden, Massachusetts | year = 2006 | isbn = 9780745638867 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/globalinequality0000unse }}
{{cite book | last1 = Held | first1 = David | last2 = McGrew | first2 = Anthony | title = Globalization theory: approaches and controversies | publisher = Polity Press | location = Cambridge, UK Malden, Massachusetts | year = 2007 | isbn = 9780745632100 }}
{{cite book | last1 = Held | first1 = David | last2 = Mepham | first2 = David | title = Progressive foreign policy: new directions for the UK | publisher = Polity Press | location = Cambridge, UK Malden, Massachusetts | year = 2007 | isbn = 9780745641140 }}
{{cite book | last1 = Held | first1 = David | last2 = Moore | first2 = Henrietta L. | author-link2 = Henrietta Moore | title = Cultural politics in a global age: uncertainty, solidarity, and innovation | publisher = One World Publications | location = Oxford | year = 2008 | isbn = 9781851685509 }}
{{cite book | last = Held | first = David | title = Cosmopolitanism: ideals and realities | publisher = Polity Press | location = Cambridge, UK Malden, Massachusetts | year = 2010 | isbn = 9780745648354 }}
{{cite book | last1 = Held | first1 = David | last2 = Coates-Ulrichsen | first2 = Kristian | title = The end of the American Century: from 9/11 to the Arab Spring | publisher = Polity Press | location = Cambridge, UK Malden, Massachusetts | year = 2013 | isbn = 9780745663722 }}
{{cite book | last1 = Held | first1 = David | last2 = Roger | first2 = Charles | last3 = Nag | first3 = Eva-Maria | title = Climate governance in the developing world | publisher = Polity Press | location = Cambridge, UK Malden, Massachusetts | year = 2013 | isbn = 9780745662770 }}
{{cite book | last1 = Held | first1 = David | last2 = Hale | first2 = Tom | last3 = Young | first3 = Kevin | title = Gridlock: why global cooperation is failing when we need it most | publisher = Polity Press | location = Cambridge, UK Malden, Massachusetts | year = 2013 | isbn = 9780745662398 }}
David Held, Charles Roger (eds.). 2013. Global Governance at Risk. Wiley. {{ISBN|9780745665245}}
{{cite book | last1 = Held | first1 = David | last2 = Koenig-Archibugi | first2 = Mathias | title = Global policy: power, governance and accountability | publisher = Polity Press | location = Cambridge, UK Malden, Massachusetts | year = 2014 | url = https://www.researchgate.net/publication/264437735 }}
David Held, Pietro Maffettone (Eds.). 2016. Global Political Theory. Wiley. {{ISBN|9780745685175}}
Thomas Hale, David Held. 2017. Beyond Gridlock. Wiley. {{ISBN|9781509515714}}

= Chapters in books =

{{Citation | last = Held | first = David | contribution = Principles of the cosmopolitan order | editor-last1 = Brighouse | editor-first1 = Harry | editor-last2 = Brock | editor-first2 = Gillian | editor-link1 = Harry Brighouse | title = The political philosophy of cosmopolitanism | pages = 10–27 | publisher = Cambridge University Press | location = Cambridge New York | year = 2005 | isbn = 978-0-52184-660-8 | postscript = .}}

= Journal articles =

Archibugi, Daniele; Held, David (Winter 2011). [https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/ethics-and-international-affairs/article/cosmopolitan-democracy-paths-and-agents/9F969D03032228FCFDD2C749D160180D "Cosmopolitan Democracy: Paths and Agents"]. Ethics & International Affairs. 25 (4): 433–461. doi.org/10.1017/S0892679411000360.
{{Cite journal | last1 = Held | first1 = David | last2 = Fane-Hervey | first2 = Angus | title = Democracy, climate change and global governance | journal = Policy Network | date = November 2009 | format = paper | url = http://www.policy-network.net/publications_detail.aspx?ID=3406 | access-date = 2015-03-07 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170905023837/http://www.policy-network.net/publications_detail.aspx?ID=3406 | archive-date = 2017-09-05 | url-status = dead }} [https://web.archive.org/web/20160304060206/http://www.policy-network.net/publications_download.aspx?ID=3426 Pdf.]
{{Cite journal | last1 = Held | first1 = David | last2 = Koenig-Archibugi | first2 = Mathias | title = Introduction | journal = Government and Opposition | volume = 39 | issue = 2 | pages = 125–131 | doi = 10.1111/j.1477-7053.2004.00117.x | date = Spring 2004 | s2cid = 232180413 }}
{{Cite journal | last = Held | first = David | title = Democratic accountability and political effectiveness from a cosmopolitan perspective | journal = Government and Opposition | volume = 39 | issue = 2 | pages = 364–391 | doi = 10.1111/j.1477-7053.2004.00127.x | date = Spring 2004 | s2cid = 144477961 }}

References

External links

[http://www.lse.ac.uk/people/d.held@lse.ac.uk LSE Experts page]
[http://www2.lse.ac.uk/government/whosWho/profiles/dheld@lseacuk/Home.aspx LSE Government Department] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120401233929/http://www2.lse.ac.uk/government/whosWho/profiles/dheld@lseacuk/Home.aspx |date=1 April 2012 }}
[http://www.luiss.edu/node/825 LUISS International Relations Master's Degree]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20120318132926/http://www.woolflse.com/ Lord Woolf's Inquiry into the LSE and Libya], March, 2011. [https://web.archive.org/web/20120318132926/http://www.woolflse.com/#submission-link Make a submission.]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20120418062306/http://www.policy-network.net/content/350/socialdemocracyobservatory Social Democracy Observatory]

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