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​Seven leading scholars spanning a variety of disciplines from around the country provide insight into the manifestations of global populism, as part of a lecture series that began in fall 2017 at the University of Delaware.

The lecture series, “Taking Stock of Global Populism,” is hosted by the Center for Global and Area Studies (CGAS) and is free and open to the public. Its aim is to help students, faculty, staff and the general public gain a better understanding of the rise of populism, its causes and implications.

Fall lectures (with video links):

Oct. 2, Kim Scheppele of Princeton University, "The End of 'The End of History'"

Oct. 11, Justin Gest of George Mason University, “The New Minority: White Working Class Politics in the Trump Era” (video requires UD login); (UD Review article)

Oct. 25, David Timberman, an independent scholar, “Rodrigo Duterte and Populism in the Philippines”; (UD Review article) and

Nov. 13, Julio Carrión, associate professor of political science and international relations and of Latin American and Iberian Studies at UD, “Understanding Populist Governance in Latin America.” (UD Review article)

Spring lectures (with video links):

Feb. 12, Jan-Werner Mueller of Princeton University, "How Not to Think about Populism";

Mar. 15, Mabel Berezin of Cornell University, "Attention Deficits: Why Populism Should Not Be a Surprise";(UD Review article) and

May 3, Bart Bonikowski of Harvard University, "Trump, Nationalism & Populism in the U.S.", PowerPoint, and UD Review article.

Sponsorship

​This series was co-sponsored by UD’s Journalism Program; College of Arts and Sciences-Humanities; Center for Political Communication; School of Public Policy and Administration; and the departments of Anthropology; English; History; Languages, Literatures and Cultures; Political Science and International Relations; and Sociology and Criminal Justice.​

​The economic map of Europe has changed dramatically over the past three decades. Spatial flows of capital, goods, services and labor have intensified dramatically, but unevenly and in a very differentiated manner. A series of economic crises over the past three decades has also produced an uneven geography of costs and benefits. Brexit is likely to complicate Europe’s political and economic geography further. Mega-cities, regions and firms are at the centre of this spatial arrangement. Instead of well-structured and legally bounded variable geometry,​ we have spontaneous, informal and hybrid cooperative arrangements between numerous private and public actors. This lecture aims to grasp the scope and nature of this ongoing change.

​Jan Zielonka is a professor of European Politics and Society at Oxford University. His main research interests lie in the field of European Integration and Disintegration, Political Geography, Comparative Politics and Democracy, Political Ideologies, Media and Communication.

Event Details

WHEN: May 1, 2019 • 6PM

WHERE: 219 Gore Hall

FOR MORE INFO: kindermd@udel.edu

This event is sponsored by the University of Delaware European Studies Program.​

​A Panel Discussion on Democratic Decay with Sheri Berman (Barnard College, Columbia University) and Jan Zielonka (St Antony's College, Oxford University). Berman is the author of Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe: From the Ancien Régime to the Present Day (OUP, 2019) and Zielonka is the author of Counter-Revolution: Liberal Europe in Retreat (OUP, 2018).

Berman and Zielonka will discuss each other's books and discuss questions including: why is liberal democracy in retreat, and why is democracy having the problems it is today? What are the key factors undergirding the rise of populism? How should we understand illiberalism in Eastern Europe? What role could or should the European Union play in "policing" political developments in Eastern Europe? What is the relative role of immigration and economic factors in driving dissatisfaction?

Event Details

WHEN: May 2, 2019 • 2:30PM

WHERE: Trabant Theater

FOR MORE INFO: kindermd@udel.edu

This event is sponsored by the University of Delaware European Studies Program.​

​​​The Brussels Effect challenges the prevalent view that the European Union is a declining world power. It argues that notwithstanding its many obvious challenges, the EU remains an influential superpower that shapes the world in its image through a phenomenon called the "Brussels Effect."

The Brussels Effect refers to the EU's unilateral power to regulate global markets. Without the need to resort to international institutions or seek other nations' cooperation, the EU has the unique ability among nations today to promulgate regulations that shape the global business environment, elevating standards worldwide and leading to a notable Europeanization of many important aspects of global commerce. Different from many other forms of global influence, the Brussels Effect entails that the EU does not need to impose its standards coercively on anyone—market forces alone are often sufficient to convert the EU standard into the global standard as multinational companies voluntarily extend the EU rule to govern their global operations.

In this way, the EU wields significant, unique, and highly penetrating power to unilaterally transform global markets, including through its ability to set the standards in diverse areas such as antitrust regulation, data protection, online hatespeech, consumer health and safety, or environmental protection.

This lecture is presented in collaboration with the Institute for Global Studies and is part of the Spring Fulbright Lecture Series.

March 10, 2020 | 104 Gore Hall | 5PM—6:30PM | Free Admission

Anu Bradford​

Anu Bradford is Henry L. Moses Professor of Law and International Organization at Columbia Law School. She is also a director for the European Legal Studies Center. Her research and teaching focus on European Union law, international trade law, and comparative and international antitrust law. Before joining the Law School faculty in 2012, she was an assistant professor at the University of Chicago Law School.

Bradford earned her S.J.D. degree in 2007 and LL.M. degree in 2002 from Harvard Law School, and also holds a law degree from the University of Helsinki. After completing her LL.M. studies as a Fulbright Scholar at Harvard Law School, Bradford practiced antitrust law and EU law at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton in Brussels for two years before returning to Harvard for her doctoral studies. She has also served as an adviser on economic policy in the Parliament of Finland and as an expert assistant to a member of the European Parliament. Bradford's new book "The Brussels Effect: How the European Union Rules the World" will be published in 2020 by Oxford University Press. ​