Weatherhead Scholars Program

Multipolarity in the Age of Geopolitical Recession: The Many-Body Problem Professor Jeremić will examine the transformation of the international system from the post-Cold War unipolar moment toward a more diffuse and contested distribution of power. He...

Challenges to Conflict Mediation in a Fragmenting International System The speaker will outline some of the major international developments that have challenged the practice of conflict mediation in recent years – including the return of geopolitics, the...

Human Rights and Transnational Repression Judith Abitan and Dawn Norris Doak will address the intersection of human rights and transnational repression, with examples drawn from Ms Abitan's work with the RWCHR and Ms Doak's cases at the FBI. From both a...

Deliberative Democracy Under Difficult Circumstances Speaker Damir Kapidžić, Professor of Comparative Politics; Director of the Institute for Social Science Research, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Contact Walid Hammam walid_hammam@wcfia...

Nationalism and the Transformation of the State Speaker Lars-Erik Cederman, Professor of International Conflict Research, ETH Zürich. Discussant Oded Haklai, Professor of Political Studies; Director, Centre for the Study of Democracy and Diversity, Queen...

The Effect of U.S. Democracy Promotion Retrenchment on Global Autocratization: Theory and Evidence from Israel and Turkey Speakers Oded Haklai, Professor of Political Studies; Director, Centre for the Study of Democracy and Diversity, Queen’s University...