2023-24 Past Events

  • Leaders in the Middle East and North Africa: How Ideology Shapes Foreign Policy

    The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Autocracy and Democracy presents “Leaders in the Middlebury East and North Africa: How Ideology Shapes Foreign Policy” with Dr. Sercan Canbolat, inaugural director of Abrahamic Programs at the University of Connecticut’s (UConn) Global Affairs and a postdoctoral research associate UConn’s Department of Political Science.

    Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

    Open to the Public
  • The End of the Cold War and the Rise of Neoliberalism

    Fritz Bartel is a diplomatic historian at Texas A&M University. His book on the end of the Cold War (Harvard University Press, 2022), The Triumph of Broken Promises, has been widely praised for its political-economic interpretation of the demise of the Soviet Union and the rise of neo-liberalism in the United States.

    Co-sponsored by the International Politics & Economics program

    Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

    Open to the Public
  • Rwanda: 30 Years since the Genocide

    In this lecture, Susan Thomson, focuses on a single life story to reflect on the Rwandan government’s unfulfilled promise of ethnic reconciliation in the thirty years since the country’s traumatic genocide of 1994.

    McCardell Bicentennial Hall 220

    Open to the Public
  • How Equality Helped Italy Fight Corruption

    The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs Program in Global Political Economy presents “How Equality Helped Italy Fight Corruption” with Lucia Manzi, SUNY Plattsburgh. Organized by Gary WInslett, Assistant Professor of Political Science.

    In 1992, the “Clean Hands” anti-corruption operation resulted in hundreds of convictions and permanently changed the Italian political landscape. How was this breakthrough possible? Prof. Manzi shows how egalitarian changes in prosecutorial institutions helped the Italian government more effectively fight the Mafia as well as terrorist organizations.

    Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

    Open to the Public

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Middlebury, VT 05753