Johns Hopkins SAIS to host “U.S. Democracy Post-Insurrection: What’s Next?” on January 28

Johns Hopkins SAIS will host “U.S. Democracy Post-Insurrection: What’s Next?” on Thursday, January 28. This two-session virtual event, presented by Eliot A. Cohen, Dean at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and a former Counselor at the U.S. Department of State, will focus on the Capitol insurrection and what the events of January 6 mean for the future of U.S. democracy even as the nation experiences a peaceful transition of power.

 

This event will also feature several Johns Hopkins SAIS faculty experts who will offer a comparative look at this moment in the U.S. and what can be learned from the experiences of other countries.

10:30 a.m.

Welcome & Opening Remarks 

Dean Eliot A. Cohen

 

Moderator

Filipe Campante, SVice Dean for Education and Academic Affairs and Bloomberg Distinguished Associate Professor of International Economics

 

Panelists

Anne Applebaum, Senior Fellow of International Affairs and Agora Fellow in Residence

Henry Farrell, Agora Institute Professor of International Affairs

Yascha Mounk, Associate Professor of the Practice of International Relations

1:00 p.m.

Welcome & Opening Remarks 

Dean Eliot A. Cohen

 

Moderator

Filipe Campante, Vice Dean for Education and Academic Affairs and Bloomberg Distinguished Associate Professor of International Economics

 

Panelists

Eugene Finkel, Associate Professor of International Affairs

Lisel Hintz, Assistant Professor of International Relations and European Studies

Pavithra Suryanarayan, Assistant Professor of International Political Economy

Thursday, January 28, 2020

10:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m. EST

1:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m. EST

This event is free and open to the public and media, with registration (Part 1 and Part II).

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Anne Applebaum is a staff writer for The Atlantic and a Pulitzer-prize winning historian. She is also a Senior Fellow of International Affairs and Agora Fellow in Residence at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), where she co-directs LSE Arena, a program on disinformation and 21st- century propaganda. Applebaum is the author of several books, including Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism, Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine, and Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe. Her book Gulag: A History won the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction, and her writing has also won the Cundill, Nonino and Lionel Gelber prizes, among many others.

 

A Washington Post columnist for fifteen years and a former member of the editorial board, Applebaum has also worked as the foreign and deputy editor of The Spectator in London, as the political editor of the Evening Standard, and as a columnist at Slate and at several British newspapers, including the Daily and Sunday Telegraphs. From 1988-1991, she covered the collapse of communism as the Warsaw correspondent of The Economist and The Independent. 

 

Filipe Campante is the Vice Dean for Education and Academic Affairs at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and Bloomberg Distinguished Associate Professor of International Economics at the Department of Economics at the Johns Hopkins Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. He is interested in political economy, development economics, and urban/regional issues. His research examines what constrains politicians and policy makers beyond formal checks and balances: cultural norms, institutions, media, and political protest.

 

Campante's work has appeared in leading academic journals such as the American Economic Review and the Quarterly Journal of Economics. His work has also received multiple mentions in outlets such as the New York Times, Science, NPR, Washington Post, The Economist, Los Angeles Times, Foreign Affairs, Politico. Campante is also a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).

 

Henry Farrell is the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Agora Institute Professor of International Affairs at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), 2019 winner of the Friedrich Schiedel Prize for Politics and Technology, and editor in chief of the Monkey Cage blog at the Washington Post. 

 

Farrell’s research covers a variety of topics, including democracy, the politics of the internet, and international and comparative political economy. He wrote The Political Economy of Trust: Interests, Institutions and Inter-Firm Cooperation and co-authored Of Privacy and Power: The Transatlantic Fight over Freedom and Security.

 

Eugene Finkel is an Associate Professor of International Affairs at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). He studies the intersection of political science and history and strives to promote a better dialogue between the two disciplines. His research focuses on how institutions and individuals respond to extreme situations: Violence, state collapse, and rapid change.

 

Finkel is the author of Ordinary Jews: Choice and Survival During the Holocaust and co-authored Reform and Rebellion in Weak States. His articles have appeared in the American Political Science Review, Journal of Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Comparative Politics, East European Politics and Societies, Slavic Review, Democratization, and several other journals.

 

Lisel Hintz is an Assistant Professor of International Relations and European Studies at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). She studies arenas in which struggles over various forms of identity – national, ethnic, religious, gender – take place. Her regional focus is Turkey and its relations with Europe, the U.S., and the Middle East. 

 

Hintz’s first book, Identity Politics Inside Out: National Identity Contestation and Foreign Policy in Turkey, examines how contestation over national identity spills over to shape and be shaped by foreign policy. She is currently working on a book investigating Turkey’s state-society struggles over identity in the pop culture sphere. Hintz also contributes to Foreign Policy, Washington Post, War on the Rocks, The Boston Globe, and BBC World Service, as well as to academic and policy discussions on Turkey’s increasing authoritarianism, opposition dynamics, foreign policy shifts, and identity-related topics including Kurdish, Alevi, and gender issues.

 

Yascha Mounk is an Associate Professor of the Practice of International Relations at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). He is a political scientist known for his work on the rise of populism and the crisis of liberal democracy. His most recent book, The People vs Democracy: Why Our Freedom is In Danger and How to Save It, has been translated into 10 languages and recognized as a ‘Best Book of 2018’ by the Financial Times and other publications.

 

Mounk is a senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund, senior advisor at Protect Democracy, columnist at Slate, and host of The Good Fight podcast. He is also a frequent contributor to international newspapers and magazines including The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and Foreign Affairs as well as a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

 

Pavithra Suryanarayan is an Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). She received her PhD in political science from Columbia University in October 2016 and her dissertation received American Political Science Association’s 2018 Mancur Olson Award for the best dissertation in political economy. She specializes in comparative political economy with a focus on identity, redistribution, and state development in India. 

 

Suryanarayan’s work combines quantitative analysis, including spatial and survey methods, with extensive archival research. Her papers have been published or are forthcoming in the American Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Politics, Party Politics, and World Politics. She is currently working on a book manuscript on social status and redistributive politics.

A division of Johns Hopkins University, the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) is a global institution that offers students an international perspective on today's critical issues. For more than 75 years, Johns Hopkins SAIS has produced great leaders, thinkers, and practitioners of international relations. Public leaders and private sector executives alike seek the counsel of the faculty, whose ideas and research inform and shape policy. Johns Hopkins SAIS offers a global perspective across three campus locations: Bologna, Italy; Nanjing, China; and Washington, D.C. The school's interdisciplinary curriculum is strongly rooted in the study of international economics, international relations, and regional studies, preparing students to address multifaceted challenges in the world today. 

 

For more information, visit sais.jhu.edu or on Twitter @SAISHopkins

 

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