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Can peripheral states rise to power in world politics? 🌎 In his latest article, Fabrício H Chagas-Bastos uses the idea of 'international insertion' to study how states in the periphery navigate global hierarchies. Read here > https://lnkd.in/gt95qXwm

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Over the course of four fascinating panels, experts at our recent Rural West Conference explored a wide range of topics under the general theme of "The Changing Rural Southwest." All of these panels are now available for viewing on our website. Visit our Rural West page to watch the videos and learn more about migration between Arizona, California, and Texas; the impact of the Colorado River agreement on western water issues; economic and policy considerations around the U.S.-Mexico border; and current Native American issues in the Southwest. https://lnkd.in/g5xFc6rW

"The dawning of the party conference season is a good opportunity to pause and read about the health (or otherwise) of British government, constitutional institutions, politics and politicians." Our Associate Dean, Professor Tony Travers, recommends ten books for readers seeking in-depth analysis of the UK's political landscape, with authors including Isabel Hardman, Paul Johnson, Anthony Seldon and Raymond Newell. 📚 Read the full list here: https://ow.ly/eNEm50PV8Q6

Please joins us for Turn on Federalism! A cooperation between the Institut für Föderalismus | Institut du Fédéralisme | Institute of Federalism and the Hanns Seidel Foundation. 🇪🇺 Conditional grants are often seen as an instrument to reduce constituent units' policy autonomy in federal systems. Learn more about the EU budget on Turn on Federalism! With Mario Kölling from UNED and Rekha Oleschak Pillai from IFF. 📅14.04.24 ⏱️13.30 CET 👉https://lnkd.in/dXjGFi_Y

📣 Today, democracy faces an array of grave challenges, globally as well as within the EU’s own borders. ✒️ More than 250 political and civil leaders, Nobel laureates and pro-democracy organisations from different countries and walks of life thus call upon the next EU leadership to consider 10 priorities to place democracy at the top of the policy agenda, at home and abroad. #EUDefendDemocracy - Join the cause and sign the statement ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/eBSnt4cK International IDEA ENoP - European Network of Political Foundations European Endowment for Democracy (EED) Open Government Partnership

NEW 📚Economic security has become a leitmotiv of Europe’s economic policy discourse, but the concept has been there for a long time. With Cecilia Trasi we walk you through the intellectual history of this notion, to let the past enlighten the future. https://lnkd.in/d2JCQedR

📣 Today, democracy faces an array of grave challenges, globally as well as within the EU’s own borders. More than 250 political, civil leaders, Nobel laureates and pro-democracy organisations from different countries and walks of life, thus sign an open letter ahead of the #EUElections and call upon the next EU leadership to consider ten priorities to place democracy, at home and abroad, at the top of the policy agenda in the Union for the duration of their mandates and beyond. The letter was initiated and supported by International IDEA, European Endowment for Democracy (EED), European Partnership for Democracy (EPD), Open Government Partnership and ENoP - European Network of Political Foundations. Join the cause and sign the statement ➡ https://lnkd.in/eBSnt4cK #EUDefendDemocracy

I have a new article out in the Journal of Cold War Studies: "The Committee for the Free World and the Defense of Democracy". This one has been a long time coming. This article provides the first comprehensive examination of the U.S.-based advocacy group the Committee for the Free World. Founded by Midge Decter in 1981, the CFW constituted a key foreign policy branch of the neoconservative movement in the late Cold War. The article traces the motivations for the CFW's establishment, activities, position within the neoconservative movement, and relations with the Reagan administration. It offers new insights into the history of neoconservatism, anti-communism, democracy promotion, and Ronald Reagan's foreign policy. The CFW was launched simultaneously in New York and London with roughly 400 members from the US, the UK, Canada, West Germany, France, Italy, Israel, Argentina, and Australia. Its members hailed from the worlds of politics, journalism, art, academia, and think tanks. The group sought to make the defense of democracy a core component of U.S. foreign policy. To the CFW, this was mainly about the defense of Western democracies against communism rather than democracy promotion in authoritarian states. Announcing the CFW to the world, Decter stated: "We are persuaded that the struggle for freedom may in the end be won or lost not on battlefields but in books, newspapers, broadcasts, classrooms, and in all public institutions where the determination to remain free is enhanced or undermined." By tracing the CFW's vision for defending democracy, the article unearths a key intellectual lineage for the more active democracy promotion agenda that would become a key guiding principle for U.S. foreign policy in the post–Cold War world. The article is a product of my postdoc at Georgetown University funded by Carlsberg Foundation. I conducted most of the research at the wonderful archives at The Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and presented a draft version at a SHAFR conference several years ago. Thanks to everyone involved! https://lnkd.in/dCVamUdG