Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs

In The Dissent Channel former diplomat Elizabeth Shackelford chronicles how the problems facing U.S. diplomacy—exacerbated under the last administration—aren’t new. One is impunity: the U.S. turned a blind eye to gross injustices and human rights abuses by South Sudan’s government, and—determined to see South Sudan a success—failed to prioritize accountability. This not only insulated Sudan’s government from consequence, but contributed to a deterioration that ended in war. U.S.

Clayton Thomas-Muller is a member of the Treaty #6 based Mathias Colomb Cree Nation, also known as Pukatawagan, located in in Northern Manitoba, Canada. Based in the prairie city of Winnipeg, Clayton is the “Stop It At The Source” Campaigner with 350.org as well as a founder and organizer with Defenders of the Land. Clayton is involved in many initiatives to support the building of an inclusive movement globally for energy and climate justice.

Participants: Jim Bittermann(Senior International Correspondent CNN) & Nicolas Roussellier (Sciences Po Paris & Middlebury College School in France)

Visit: http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/french for zoom link.

Nicolas Roussellier, Professor of Political History at Sciences Po Paris & Middlebury College School in France and Anne Simonin, Historian & Senior Researcher with the CNR

Please email jynewton@middlebury.edu or atondu@middlebury.edu for zoom link info.

Sponsored by Stephen A. Freeman Funds, the Department of French and Francophone Studies, the Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, and the Middlebury School in France

International and Global Colloquium lecture by Edward Vazquez, associate professor of history of art and architecture, Middlebury College.

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Image: Alfredo Jaar, Public Interventions (Studies on Happiness: 1979-1981), 1981.

The open, rules-based international order that the US championed and defended for seven decades after World War II is under severe strain. China and Russia are promoting competing world order visions and challenging longstanding multilateral norms and rules. Meanwhile, the system is under siege from within, as Western societies feel the pull and sometimes succumb to populism, nationalism, and protectionism. Some fear that the Trump foreign policy sounded the liberal order’s death knell, yet such obituaries are premature.

Paul van Hooft’s talk will examine the current relationship between the United States and the European Union, analyzing how the Trump administration weakened that relationship, how each of the two powers think about a rising China, and how the two think about each other.

The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs program on Global and International History presents Badges Without Borders: 120 Years of the Cross-Fertilization of U.S. Empire and Urban Policing by Stuart Schrader.

This panel will describe the ways in which COVID-19 has disrupted routine health services (for non-COVID conditions) around the world, particularly in resource-poor areas. The presenters will also share insights into vaccine refusal based on lessons from the polio eradication campaign. Svea Closser is a medical anthropologist who uses ethnographic methods to explore the complexities of public health policymaking and implementation. Most of her work focuses on infectious disease control, including vaccination.

Steven Klein is a lecturer of political theory in the Department of Political Economy at King’s College London. This lecture will be on his first book, The Work of Politics: Making a Democratic Welfare State (CUP 2020), which examines the democratic potential of struggles over welfare institutions. His research has focused on democratic theory, critical social theory, theories of political economy and the welfare state, the theory and politics of European integration, and the history of European social and political thought (especially of 19th- and 20th-century Germany).