The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Global Economics, Development and Political Economy presents “A Chinese Education: Teaching and Learning from Two Generations of Students in China” with Peter Hessler.
Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room
China’s Grey Zone Tactics around Taiwan and in the South China Sea
China increasingly uses “grey zone” tactics - less than war but more than peace - to pressure Taiwan and countries in the South China Sea. M. Taylor Fravel, Middlebury grad and Director of the Security Studies Program at MIT will discuss the evolution of these tactics, where they might lead, and how they can be countered.
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Book Launch for Christopher Klyza’s “Building the American Green State: The States, the Federal Government, and Intercurrence, 1800-2000” (2026, MIT Press).
This book traces the development of environmental agencies at the U.S. state and federal level and explores how these aspects of the green state frequently clash with one another, leading to significant policy challenges.
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Screening of the new Rolling Stone Films documentary with the protagonist and film team. Q&A session to follow.
Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)
The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Global Economics, Development and Political Economy presents “Globalization and its Discontents: Stories from the Factory Floors of China and Egypt” with Leslie Chang.
Axinn Center Abernethy Room (221)
The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Global Trends in Autocracy and Democracy present “Empowering Young Citizens through the Practice of Accountability: An Experiment in Bangladesh” with Akshay Dixit.
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2024, Maria Pevchikh and Alexei Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation released Traitors, a provocative documentary series asking how Russia’s democratic opening of the 1990s ended in Vladimir Putin’s authoritarian regime. The film places much of the blame on the political and economic elites surrounding Boris Yeltsin, focusing on corruption, privatization and the rise of the oligarchs, the controversial 1996 presidential election, and ultimately the choice of Putin as Yeltsin’s successor.
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How has geography become the central infrastructure of political authority in Putin’s Russia? Dr. Sofia Gavrilova (Fung Global Fellow, Princeton and Senior Researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography), argues that that propaganda in Russia operates less through persuasion than through participation — by enrolling ordinary people in the everyday work of imperial reproduction. At the heart of the project is the concept of the “Volunteer Empire”: an empire reproduced through organized presence, care, and curated experience.
Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room
Students, staff, alumni and the public are invited to attend this weekly nonpartisan discussion of recent political events, hosted by Professor Matthew Dickinson. Held almost every Tuesday 12:30-1:30 pm EST. in person and by zoom. Check the calendar for dates. No expertise assumed. All viewpoints welcome. To register for the zoom sessions, please contact Prof. Dickinson at his email: dickinso@middlebury.edu
Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room
Students, staff, alumni and the public are invited to attend this weekly nonpartisan discussion of recent political events, hosted by Professor Matthew Dickinson. Held almost every Tuesday 12:30-1:30 pm EST. in person and by zoom. Check the calendar for dates. No expertise assumed. All viewpoints welcome. To register for the zoom sessions, please contact Prof. Dickinson at his email: dickinso@middlebury.edu
Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room
