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Date and Time

September 17, 2025
12:00PM - 01:15PM EDT

From Victory to Uncertainty: The Postwar Order After Eighty Years

This session is open to the public and will be recorded. Registration is required for this Zoom webinar.

This year we mark eighty years to the end of World War II, which birthed an international order that has profoundly shaped our world. Today, many argue that we are seeing the dissolution of the post-WWII world order and a transition into something else entirely. This panel asks: How should we understand the post-WWII world order eighty years later? How and why is it now changing? And where do we think this is all going?

Speakers

  • Margaret Macmillan, Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Toronto; Emeritus Professor of International History, Oxford University.
  • Rana Mitter, ST Lee Chair in US-Asia Relations, Harvard Kennedy School.
  • Stephen Wertheim, Senior Fellow American Statecraft Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Chair

  • Erez Manela, Acting Center Director (2025–2026); Director, Graduate Student Programs; Faculty Associate. Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History, Department of History, Harvard University.

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