Dr. Rachel Epstein is Professor at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies and Academic Co-Director of the Colorado European Union Center of Excellence. Her research and teaching focus on the relationship between the economy and security outcomes, international organizations … Read more

Herman Mark Schwartz is a geographically oriented economic historian who finds it congenial to work in a politics department because he studies the constitution of and interaction of state and market power. He has worked on foreign debt financed, agricultural … Read more

Susan Dabney Pennybacker’s research centers upon the political culture of modern Britain and the former British empire. Her book-in-progress, entitled Fire By Night, Cloud by Day: refuge and exile in postwar London, concerns the movement of individuals between metropolitan London … Read more

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