Int'l Politics & Economics

Connect with Midd alums at the International Politics and Economics Field Guide.
Presented by the Center for Careers and Internships and cosponsored by the International Politics and Economics department, this Field Guide brings alumni back to campus to share knowledge and experience related to their post-Middlebury careers and professional lives with current students.

Commencement reception for International Politics & Economics and International & Global Studies seniors and their families.

Yevgenia Albats, Yevgenia Albats, Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government

— a Russian investigative journalist, political scientist, writer, and radio host — will talk about Russian society and politics in the context of Russia’s invasion of, and ongoing war in, Ukraine.

Join us to catch up with classmates who were abroad, meet others in the major, as well as connect with professors.

Students interested in the major are welcome.

Commencement reception for International Politics & Economics and International & Global Studies seniors and their families.

The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Global Trends in Autocracy and Democracy presents Professor of Government at Georgetown University Qatar, Mehran Kamrawa.

Speaker: Scott D. Rozelle, Stanford University

Title: Rural China’s Schools: Challenges and Potential Solutions

Matthew Rojansky will discuss the current state of the war in Ukraine and take questions from the audience.

Matthew Rojansky, the President and CEO of the U.S. Russia Foundation and a Distinguished Fellow at the Wilson Center’s Kennan Institute, is as much a regular at Congressional briefings and on prime-time news shows as he is on the streets of Moscow, Kyiv, or Berlin. One of the country’s leading analysts of US relations with Russia, Ukraine, and the region, he has advised governments and international organizations and leads track two diplomacy on Eurasian conflicts.

“World Cup Soccer and the Global South: From South Africa 2010 to Brazil 2014” a presentation by Peter Alegi, professor of history at Michigan State University. He is the author of African Soccerscapes: How a Continent Changed the World’s Game (2010) and co-editor with Chris Bolsmann of Africa’ World Cup: Critical Reflection on Play, Patriotism, Spectatorship, and Space (University of Michigan Press, 2013).