Events

Professor Elizabeth R. Nugent will present part of a book she is finalizing on activism in exile. Dr. Nugent studies the politics and political psychology of authoritarianism and religion in the Middle East and is the author of After Repression: How Polarization Derails Democratic Transition, published by Princeton University Press (2020).

Join us at the Institute of Governmental Studies Library on Thursday, November 12th at 4:00pm for "California and the Nation Vote: A Post-Mortem on the 2026 Election." Nine days after Election Day, two moderated panels will examine the results through this year's theme: maps, money, and the movements reshaping the parties.

How do social norms and professional incentives affect policy discourse within the Washington foreign policy community? We conducted over 50 semi-structured interviews and a survey of nearly five-hundred American foreign policy and national security professionals about their views towards the People's Republic of China. Over one fifth of survey respondents noted instances of professional pressure to voice a more hawkish point of view towards China, and many feared being perceived as naive or compromised by their views on, ties to, and experiences in China. These pressures were particularly acute for foreign policy professionals that are traditionally marginalized from power–those who..

How have European countries coped with the challenge of industrial capitalism and the rise of superpowers? Through an analysis of European integration from 1945 to the present day, Laurent Warlouzet argues that the European response was to create both new institutions, in particular the European Union, and an original framework of governance for capitalism. Beyond the European case, he demonstrates that capitalism is not just a contest between free marketeers and their opponents, those in favour of welfare and environmental policies, because there is a third camp that defends protectionism and assertive defence policies. Hence, the governance of capitalism has..