Are we witnessing a populist momentum (Zeitgeist) worldwide? In Europe, especially in the Central European region, where former communist states have been successfully transformed to liberal democracies, we see the emergence of populist political forces as a significant tendency in … Read more

Rahsaan Maxwell is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. The central question for his research is how national boundaries operate. Within that theme, he has pursued numerous topics including … Read more

David Armitage will discuss the implications of recent European security and defense initiatives on transatlantic relations, placing these moves in a broader historical context. David Armitage is the Senior Analyst for Europe at the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of … Read more

Organized by Political Science Professor Milada Vachudova, this discussion will feature Samuel Greene. Sam Greene is Director of the Russia Institute at King`s College London and senior lecturer in Russian politics. Prior to moving to London in 2012, he lived … Read more

Spencer P. Boyer is an Adjunct Professor in the BMW Center for German and European Studies at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Penn Biden Center for … Read more

Cas Mudde was born in the Netherlands, where he gained his M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science at Leiden University, under the supervision of the late Peter Mair. Before moving to the US in 2008, to join his wife, he held … Read more

Martin Seeleib-Kaiser is an Associate Fellow and Professor of Comparative Public Policy at the Eberhard Karls University Tübingen. Initially appointed as University Lecturer at the University of Oxford in 2004, he held various appointments in the Department and fellowships at Green … Read more

Dr. Hanna Kleider will speak about her recent research on individual preferences for domestic redistribution in European countries and how they relate to individual preferences for EU fiscal transfers. This talk touches on inequality within EU countries as well as … Read more

This panel grapples with the fundamental question of how membership in the European Union influences the regime type of members and candidates – whether and how robustly they maintain democratic institutions and the rule of law, and how they interact … Read more

An alum of the UNC TransAtlantic Masters Program, Dr. Melina Juárez Pérez is an instructor of Political Science and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Western Washington University. She utilizes theories that speak to and incorporate the lived realities of … Read more