Alexander Likhotal

Likhotal, Alexander

Likhotal, Alexander

President of Green Cross International

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President of Green Cross International

Alexander Likhotal is the President of Green Cross International. He holds doctorates in Political Science from the Moscow State Institute for International Relations (1975) and in History from the Institute of World Economy and International Relations, USSR Academy of Sciences (1987). In addition to an academic career as a Professor of Political Science and International Relations, he served as a European Security analyst for the Soviet Union leadership. In 1991, he was appointed Deputy Spokesman and Advisor to the President of the USSR, Mikhail Gorbachev. After Mr. Gorbachev's resignation, Professor Likhotal served as his advisor and spokesman at the Gorbachev Foundation. Becoming Vice President (1996), and President of Green Cross International (2000), he is actively involved in furthering sustainable development principles. He is also a member of the Club of Rome, a councilor at the World Future Council, member of the World Academy of Arts and Sciences, Board member of the World Culture Forum and serves as adviser to the Club of Madrid.

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Science and Progress*
Get Full Text in PDF Abstract Science has become a part of almost every aspect of our life and takes justified credit for our progress. However, the fundamental myth of progress—that it produces a steady betterment of life—is crumbling before our eyes. The experience of the twentieth century, with its civil and world wars, Gulags and Holocaust, was too tragic to support a continued belief in a kind of granted optimism of world history. Unfortunately, science development is distorted by our...