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July 10 |
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TORI HOLT
Norman E. McCulloch Jr. Director of the John Sloan Dickey Center for International
Understanding
Victoria K. Holt is the Norman E. McCulloch Jr. Director of the John Sloan Dickey
Center for International Understanding. She joined Dartmouth in September 2021, with
a background in public policy, leadership and diplomacy. In Washington, DC, she served
as Vice President at the Henry L. Stimson Center, a research and policy institute
focused on international affairs, and directed the Transforming Conflict and Governance
program. Earlier Holt was tapped to be Deputy Assistant Secretary for International
Security, Bureau of International Organization Affairs (IO), and served at the State
Department from 2009 to early 2017. In that role, she was responsible for policy and
guidance for actions in the UN Security Council and oversaw the Offices of Peace Operations,
Sanctions & Counterterrorism and UN Political Affairs. Holt led the development of
U.S. diplomatic initiatives, including the 2015 Leaders' Summit on U.N. Peacekeeping,
hosted by President Obama to increase capacities for UN operations.
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July 17 |
AUTOCRACY'S RISE, SHARP POWER, AND THE GROWING THREAT TO DEMOCRACY
Over a protracted period of time, authoritarian powers have mobilized and taken the
initiative, and in the process sought to reshape the global landscape. Led by ambitious
regimes in China and Russia, the multiyear authoritarian surge poses enormous challenges
to democratic standards, principles, and ideas. If the United States and its democratic
allies are to meet this top order challenge and set the global trajectory on a more
positive course, they will need a new, more competitive mindset.
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CHRISTOPHER WALKER
Vice President for Studies and Analysis, National Endowment for Democracy
Christopher Walker is Vice President for Studies and Analysis at the National Endowment
for Democracy, an independent, nonprofit, grant-making foundation supporting freedom
around the world. Walker oversees the department that is responsible for NED’s multifaceted
analytical efforts, which pursues it goals through several interrelated initiatives:
the leading edge work of the International Forum for Democratic Studies, which undertakes
a diverse range of analytical initiatives to explore critical themes relating to democratic
development; the Journal of Democracy, the world’s leading publication on the theory
and practice of democracy; the Reagan-Fascell fellowship program for international
democracy activists, journalists, and scholars; and the Center for International Media
Assistance, which is dedicated to improving efforts to promote independent media in
emerging democracies and developing economies around the world.
Prior to joining the NED, Walker was Vice President for Strategy and Analysis at Freedom
House. Walker has testified before legislative committees in the U.S. and abroad,
appears frequently in the media, and frequently conducts briefings on critical issues
relating to democratic development. He has been at the forefront of the thought leadership
on authoritarian influence on democratic systems, including through the exertion of
sharp power, a concept he and his colleagues developed. His articles have appeared
in numerous publications, including the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, New
York Times, Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, and the Journal of Democracy.
He is co-editor (with Larry Diamond and Marc Plattner) of Authoritarianism Goes Global:
The Challenge to Democracy (2016), and co-editor (with Jessica Ludwig) of Sharp Power:
Rising Authoritarian Influence (2017). He is a co-editor with William J. Dobson and
Tarek Masoud of the book Defending Democracy in an Age of Sharp Power (2023).
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July 24 |
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VIRGINIA BURKETT
Chief Scientist for Climate and Land Use Change
U.S. Geological Survey, Office of International Programs
U.S. Department of the Interior
Virginia Burkett is a graduate of Northwestern State University of Louisiana, where
she received her Bachelor of Science and her Master of Science degrees in zoology
and botany, respectively. Her doctoral degree in forestry was awarded from Stephen
F. Austin State University in 1996. She began her research career at Louisiana State
University’s Sea Grant program, followed by progressively responsible leadership positions
in science and natural resources management at the state and federal level.
Burkett has been appointed to over 70 Commissions, Committees, Science Panels and
Boards during her career. She currently serves as Co-Principal representative of the
US Department of Interior to the US Global Change Research Program. She currently
represents the US Department of the Interior on the National Academies’ Climate Security
Roundtable. She is a member of the Louisiana Governor’s Climate Initiatives Task Force
and is the Co-Chair of the Science Advisory Group to the Task Force. She co-chairs
the International Activities Working Group of the U.S. Group on Earth Observations.
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July 31 |
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JAMES HOLLIFIELD
Ora Nixon Arnold Professor of International Political Economy in the Department of
Political Science, SMU
Director of the Tower Center at SMU
Wars, instability, poverty, and desperation mean that forced migration and human displacement
touch every corner of the globe, including the US southern border. How can liberal
democracies like the United States balance the need for security with their commitment
to protecting the human rights of refugees, asylum seekers, and migrants? In this
lecture, Dr. James Hollifield will provide an overview of the global migration crisis,
addressing the dilemmas of migration governance, and assessing the role of the U.S.
in confronting the challenges of human displacement and forced migration.
James F. Hollifield is Ora Nixon Arnold Professor of International Political Economy
in the Department of Political Science, and Director of the Tower Center at SMU.
He also is a Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center in Washington,
DC and a member of the New York Council on Foreign Relations. Hollifield is a scholar
of international and comparative political economy, and he has written widely on issues
of political and economic development, with a focus on migration. In addition to many
scientific articles, his major books are Immigrants, Markets and States (Harvard UP
1992), L’Immigration et l’Etat Nation (L’Harmattan 1997), Pathways to Democracy (Routledge,
2000), Migration, Trade and Development (Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas 2009), Herausforderung
Migration— Perspektiven der vergleichenden Politikwissenschaft (Lit Verlag 2006),
and more recently Understanding Global Migration (Stanford UP 2022) and Controlling
Immigration 4th edition (Stanford UP 2022), Migration Theory 4th edition (Routledge
2023), and International Political Economy: History, Theory and Policy (Cambridge
University Press, forthcoming). Hollifield has served as an advisor for governments
around the world and for many international organizations on matters of migration
and human and economic development. In 2016, Hollifield received a Distinguished Scholar
Award from the International Studies Association. In 2021-22 he was named as a Fellow
of the French Institute for Advanced Studies in Paris, and in 2023 he received a Career
Achievement Award from the American Political Science Association.
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August 7 |
DISINFORMATION, MISINFORMATION—FINDING THE TRUTH
Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan is often credited with the observation that “Everyone
is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts,” and 40 years ago, when Moynihan
popularized this quip, it was generally accepted. No longer. Especially since the
rise of social media and the 2016 election, there has been increasing recognition
that facts themselves have become a battleground, amid widespread disinformation (that
is, the often viral circulation of falsehoods) and misinformation (the intentional
promulgation of untruths) are considered epidemic by many.
Our conversation about this will consider how prevalent the problems really are, what
practical difference they are making, including in our politics, how the press has
been responding (for both better and worse), how these phenomena in America interact
with similar issues elsewhere, and what might be done to get us back closer to Moynihan’s
vision.
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DICK TOFEL
Principal, Gallatin Advisory LLC, author of Second Rough Draft
Richard Tofel is the principal of Gallatin Advisory LLC and author of the newsletter
Second Rough Draft. He was the founding general manager (and first employee) of ProPublica
from 2007-2012, and its president from 2013 until 2021. As president, he had responsibility
for all of ProPublica’s non-journalism operations, including communications, legal,
development, finance and budgeting, and human resources. During the period of Tofel’s
business leadership, ProPublica published stories that won seven Pulitzer Prizes.
Tofel is an Instructor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where he
led a faculty seminar on “The Pandemic, the Press, and Public Health” and teaches
a course on “Engaging with the Press.” He was formerly the assistant publisher of
The Wall Street Journal, with responsibility for its international editions and U.S.
special editions, and, earlier, an assistant managing editor of the paper, vice president,
corporate communications for Dow Jones & Company, and an assistant general counsel
of Dow Jones. Just prior to ProPublica, he served as vice president, general counsel
and secretary of the Rockefeller Foundation.
BRANDY ZADRODZNY
Features reporter, NBC News
Brandy Zadrozny is an award-winning digital and television investigative and features
reporter for NBC News where she covers disinformation, extremism, and the internet.
She is a former research fellow at the Technology and Social Change Project at Harvard
Kennedy School's Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, and host
of the NBC News' podcast, “Tiffany Dover is Dead.”
JOEL SIMON
Founding director, Journalism Protection Initiative, CUNY
Joel Simon is the founding director of the Journalism Protection Initiative. Simon
began his career as a journalist in Latin America, before joining the Committee to
Protect Journalists in 1998. He served as CPJ executive director from 2006 to 2021.
In 2022 Simon was a Fellow at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University,
and also Senior Research Fellow at Knight First Amendment Institute, also at Columbia.
He is the author of four books, most recently The Infodemic: How Censorship and Lies
Made the World Sicker and Less Free, co-authored with Robert Mahoney. He writes regularly
on press freedom issues for The New Yorker and Columbia Journalism Review and many
other publications. You can visit his personal website here.
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August 14 |
GEOPOLITICS, LESSONS FROM THE COLD WAR, AND THE WAY FORWARD
This session will start with the geopolitical cards dealt to the United States, Russia,
and China. While the United States and its partners and allies are attempting to maintain
a maritime global order to foster trade, China and Russia are great continental powers
increasingly fixated on dominating territory. These differences have precipitated
a Second Cold War. The second section will examine how the democracies won the First
Cold War without fighting a hot war by turning to the conclusions of those on both
sides who oversaw its end. The final section will suggest some possible ways forward
based on the geopolitical hand that the United States holds, the potential strategies
that such a hand can support, and the strategies that proved most fruitful the last
time around.
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SARAH PAINE
William S. Sims University Professor, U.S. Naval War College
Sarah C. M. Paine is William S. Sims University Professor of History and Grand Strategy
in the Strategy & Policy Department of the U.S. Naval War College. Nine years of research
in Australia, China, Japan, Russia, and Taiwan form the basis for her publications:
The Japanese Empire (Cambridge, 2017); Wars for Asia, 1911-1949 (Cambridge, 2012,
Gelber prize longlist; Leopold Prize and PROSE award for European & World History),
The Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 (Cambridge, 2003), and Imperial Rivals: China,
Russia, and Their Disputed Frontier (M. E. Sharpe, 1996, Jelavich prize). She has
also written: Nation Building, State Building, and Economic Development (edited, M.E.
Sharpe, 2010); Modern China: Continuity and Change 1644 to the Present, 2nd ed. (co-author
with Bruce A. Elleman, Rowman & Littlefield, 2019); and five naval books: Naval Blockades
and Seapower: Strategies and Counter-Strategies 1805-2005, Naval Coalition Warfare:
From the Napoleonic War to Operation Iraqi Freedom, Naval Power and Expeditionary
Warfare: Peripheral Campaigns and New Theaters of Naval Warfare, Commerce Raiding:
Historical Case Studies, 1755-2009, and Navies and Soft Power: Historical Case Studies
of Naval Power and the Nonuse of Military Force (all co-edited with Bruce A. Elleman,
Routledge, 2006-11; Naval War College Press 2014-15). Most recently she co-edited
with Andrea J. Dew and Marc A. Genest, From Quills to Tweets: How America Communicates
about War and Revolution (Georgetown University Press, 2019). Her degrees include:
BA Latin American Studies, Harvard University; MIA Columbia University School for
International and Public Affairs; certificates from both the East Asian and Russian
Institutes; MA Russian, Middlebury College; and PhD history, Columbia University.
She is currently working on a history of the Cold War from 1917-1991, and three edited
books on fleets in being, sanctions, and World War II Pacific.
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