Are We Living in a 1938 Moment? How Autocracies Threaten the West

Event Location
223 Philosophy Hall
Event Date
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The warning signs of the 1930s feel alarmingly familiar today: nationalist rhetoric, revisionism, military rearmament, political polarization. In this book talk, historian and security expert Dr. Moritz Pöllath argues that these patterns function as an early warning system for the present: a new authoritarian axis — Russia, China, North Korea, Iran — is forming and exploiting a strategic power vacuum to impose a world order beyond freedom and democracy.