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M. Steven Fish - The Russo-Georgian War and the Prospects for Democratization

Craig Calhoun and Lorne Craner: Promoting Democracy from the Ground Up

Amb. Francis J. Ricciardone, Jr. and Amb. Ronald Weiser - WCED Colloqiuium

Marianne Kamp - With or Without Women's Movements?

Voldemar Tomusk - Harvesting on the Fields of Ignorance

George Tsebelis - Political Institutions of the EU

Michael Bernhard - Communist Legacies and Democratic Survival

Aleksander Kwasniewski - Promoting Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe

Archived Events | 2008-15

WCED Lecture. “The Russian Economy in 2015.”

CANCELLED WCED Lecture. “Greece: What Happened?”

Film. Rocks in My Pockets.

Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker. “Sex, Madness, and Dentists: An Animated Life of Signe Baumane.”

WCED Lecture. “A New Cold War? Russia’s New Confrontation with the West.”

WCED Exhibit. Photo 51: Is Corruption in Russia’s DNA?

WCED Conference. “Sovereignty Under Threat?”

WCED Conference. “Sovereignty Under Threat?”

WCED Lecture. “Redefining the State: Center-Right Party Outreach toward Ethnic Minorities in Western Europe.”

WCED Lecture. “Trading Hard Hats for Combat Helmets: The Economics of Rebellion in East Ukraine.”

Conference. “Federalism in Good Times and Bad: An International Conference on Decentralization and the Welfare State.”

WCED Lecture. “Is Democracy in Decline?”

WCED Lecture. “Informed Storytelling: Beyond the Facts.”

WCED Lecture. “Learning to Love Oil: Right-Sizing the Resource Curse.”

Film. The Guide (Povodyr).

WCED Lecture. “Ukraine after Ukrainian Winter and Russian Spring: Issue of Regionalism Reconsidered.”

WCED Lecture. “Empire Strikes Back: The Dissolution of the USSR and the Russian Invasion of Ukraine.”

Film. Road’s End – A Story from Latvia (Vägens Ände).

Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series. “People I Know.”

WCED Lecture. “Bank Bailouts and Structural Power in the UK and US.”

WCED Lecture. “Albania: Emerging Democracy towards the European Union.”

WCED Lecture. “Local Shocks: The Far Right in the 2014 European Elections.”

Penny Stamps/WCED Lecture. “Punk Prayer.”

WCED Lecture. “The Power of Weak States in Central Asia.”

Concert. Solomia Soroka and Arthur Greene: A Benefit for Victims of the EuroMaidan Conflict.

CANCELLED | WCED Lecture. “Economic Challenges Facing Eastern European Nations.”

Video Conference with students at L'viv University

WCED Lecture. “Erosion of Rights in Russia: A Lawyer’s Perspective.”

WCED Lecture. “Is It Time to Stop Calling It the ‘Arab Spring’? Reconsidering North Africa through the Eyes of Women’s Rights Defenders.”

WCED Lecture. “EU Leverage and National Interests in the Balkans: The Puzzles of Enlargement Ten Years On.”

WCED Lecture. “Shades of Orange: A Decade of Ukrainian Democracy.”

WCED Conference. “Religion, Identity, and Politics.”

WCED Lecture. “Acting Like a State.”

WCED Lecture. “Getting Georgia Right: The Former Soviet Union’s Most Unexpected Country.”

WCED Lecture. “De-democratization in Romania? Assessing the Turbulent Year 2012.”

WCED Lecture. “Institutional Roots of Authoritarian Rule in the Middle East: The Waqf as Obstacle to Democratization.”

WCED Lecture. “Walk the Line: Ukraine between Russia and the EU.”

WCED Lecture. “After the Revolution: The Varied Fates of Former Oppositions in Transitions to Democracy.”

WCED Lecture. “Patronage, Politics, and Sectarianism in the Middle East: The Case of Lebanon.”

Central Asian Workshop. “Islam, Society, and Politics in Central Asia.”

WCED Lecture. “It’s the Politics, Stupid: Explaining the Eurocrisis.”

WCED Lecture. “How to Undermine Democracy: Politics in Putin’s Russia.”

WCED Symposium. "World Leaders Respond to the European Crisis: A View from Warsaw and Prague."

WCED Lecture. “Hungary’s Unconstitutional Constitution.”

WCED Lecture. “Polish-Russian Reconciliation: Implications for Europe.”

WCED Lecture/Conversations on Europe. "Setting the Boundaries of Participation in Post-authoritarian Democracies: Lessons from Post-war Europe."

Lecture. "Women in the Arab Spring."

WCED Lecture. “The Future of Europe.”

WCED Lecture. “Entrepreneurship in Emerging Markets: Managing and Financing Growth Strategies.”

WCED Lecture. “Managing a 21st-Century Security Agenda: U.S. Foreign Policy beyond Iraq and Afghanistan.”

WCED Conference. “How Autocracies Work: Beyond the Electoral Paradigm.”

WCED Conference. “How Autocracies Work: Beyond the Electoral Paradigm.”

WCED Panel. "Regional Revolutions: What the Revolutions of 1989 in Central Europe Tell Us about 2011 in the Middle East."

WCED Panel. "Making Democracy Work: Slovakia in the Last Decade."

Film. The Green Zone.

WCED Lecture. “The Longest War: A Front-line View of the U.S. Mission in Afghanistan.”

Penny W. Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series. “After ‘Cooperation for Kandahar’.”

WCED Lecture. “European Dimension of the Global Crisis.”

WCED Panel. “Electoral Surprises and Newcomers: The 2010 Elections in East-Central Europe.”

Ford School Lecture. “Challenges of Managing Conflict in Today’s World.”

WCED/CREES/Ford School Lecture. "U.S.-Russia Relations: Status of the 'Reset.'"

9s Conference. “The Nines: Brinks, Cusps, and Perceptions of Possibility—from 1789–2009”

9s Conference. “The Nines: Brinks, Cusps, and Perceptions of Possibility—from 1789–2009”

9s Project HOT AIR.

9s WCED Lecture. “Purity and Danger in Romania’s ‘Transitional Justice’: Purging Enemies through the Securitate Files.”

9s WCED/EIHS Lecture. “Economic Crises as Transformative Events.”

WCED/Ford School Lecture. “The Foreign Policy Agenda of the Obama Administration: The Practitioner's Perspective.”

WCED Colloquium - "The Russo-Georgian War and the Prospects for Democratization in Postcommunist Space"

WCED Colloquium - "Challenges to Promoting Democracy from the Ground Up"

WCED Colloquium - "U.S. Diplomacy, Civil Society, and Democracy in the Middle East and Europe"

Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies Lecture - Carbon Democracy

WCED Lecture - With or Without Women's Movements? Democratization, Economic Transformation, and Women's Equality in Central Asia

*CANCELED* WCED Lecture - Challenges for Democracy in the European Neighborhood - Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus

WCED Lecture - Harvesting on the Fields of Ignorance: On the Blessings of Not-Knowing and Not-Understanding in the Post State-Socialist Reforms of Higher Learning

Postponed to Nov 19: WCED Lecture - Challenges for Democracy in the European Neighborhood - Ukraine, Moldova and Belarus

WCED Lecture - Communist Legacies and Democratic Survival: Liability or Advantage?

WCEE/WCED Inaugural Lecture - Promoting Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe

Freedoms Under Fire Residency

Democracy and Autocracy Newsletter

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