Is American democracy at risk today? Dr. Ziblatt, a government professor at Harvard University and director of the Transformations of Democracy research unit at the Berlin Social Science Center, is the author most recently of How Democracies Die (2018). In his talk, Dr. Ziblatt will draw on historical and contemporary examples of democratic crises worldwide to explore threats to contemporary American democracy and reflect on ways out of the current predicament.
Might the security and stability of nation-states be related to the security and situation of women in its society? Is there a prior, first political order between men and women in a society that shapes and molds its governance, peace, prosperity, health, progress, and environment? The U.S. Department of Defense provided over a million dollars of funding to Dr. Hudson’s research team to find out. Dr. Hudson, a political science professor in the Department of International Affairs at Texas A & M, invites her audience to explore with her why she and her colleagues have concluded, “What you do to your women, you do to your nation-state.” Begley Van Cleve Lecture.
