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Check out our events for the week of December 7, 2025.
https://loom.ly/ClGbCRY
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December 7, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Winning revolutionary regimes are often weak & militarily ineffective after victory—why? Regimes often focus on a particular thing to the neglect of another. Kai Thaler looks at new regimes in Iran & Nicaragua, reinforcing the importance of security forces. https://loom.ly/TlbLYtE
Flow chart shows military effectiveness pathways depending on the persistence or absence of old regime security forces.
December 5, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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On 9/1/25, UN experts issued a statement of concern about the resurgence of serious human rights violations in Burundi—a concern echoed at the Human Rights Council in Geneva the following month. Judith Abitan weighs in on the situation (in French): https://loom.ly/aA7Rnwo
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December 4, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Pippa Norris argues that legal restrictions and internal norms both threaten academic freedom. Using global AFI data and surveys of political scientists, she links declining academic freedom to democratic backsliding and reduced viewpoint diversity. https://loom.ly/Wvlsec4
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December 4, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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“Sometimes the most difficult things to grasp are the most familiar.” @svenbeckert.bsky.social on the rise of capitalism as both an economic system and a way of life.
Why We All Make Sacrifices to the Human-Created God Called “The Economy”
We live in a world created by capitalism. The ceaseless accumulation of capital forges the cities we inhabit, determines the way we work, allows an extraordinarily large number of people to engage …
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December 1, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Check out our events for the week of November 30, 2025.
https://loom.ly/Jw7RCrU
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November 29, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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In his new book, @svenbeckert.bsky.social traces capitalism’s millennium‑long, global rise—showing how states, coercion, and empire shaped it. He urges readers to see beyond its supposed inevitability and imagine alternative futures. https://loom.ly/t63zrOo
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November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Check out our events for the week of November 23, 2025.
https://loom.ly/gaSwIOc
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November 22, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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It was a pleasure to meet yesterday with Bogdan Klich, chargé d'affaires of Poland in the US, and Mark Elliott, Harvard's vice provost for international affairs, to sign an agreement to renew the partnership for Polish diplomats to participate in our Weatherhead Scholars Program.
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November 20, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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A deep dive into the motivations of two key Gulf states—Saudi Arabia and UAE—reveals how their tensions and shifting foreign policies reverberate throughout the Middle East. https://loom.ly/EKjPzvo
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November 19, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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We want to extend a warm thank you to Walter Russell Mead for the thought-provoking Manshel Lecture he delivered last week. The video is up on our YouTube channel in case you missed it: https://loom.ly/2nw_fAs
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November 18, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Is the US really hands-off on AI? Sacha Alanoca & I dispel the deregulatory narrative
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Don’t be fooled. The US is regulating AI – just not the way you think
Beneath the free-market rhetoric, Washington actually intervenes to control the building blocks of AI systems
www.theguardian.com
October 23, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Check out our events for the week of November 16, 2025.
https://loom.ly/w8bWlwc
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November 15, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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TODAY at 4:30pm at the Harvard Faculty Club! Come hear Walter Russell Mead deliver the Manshel Lecture on "The Crisis of Pax Americana." https://loom.ly/h922V58
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November 12, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Check out our events for the week of November 9, 2025 + the Manshel Lecture with Walter Russell Mead.
https://loom.ly/J3E3w4c
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November 8, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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Thank you to our wonderful panelists and engaged audience for a successful Weatherhead Forum yesterday! The outlook of American foreign policy may be a bit bleak, but we are grateful to our panelists' wisdom. Watch the video here in case you missed it: https://loom.ly/RX6ikn0
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November 6, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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The centuries-long history of capitalism shows that economic regimes endure for long periods of relative stability punctuated by moments of rapid change, writes
@svenbeckert.bsky.social. We're in that moment now—and resuscitation is futile. We must adapt instead. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/o...
Opinion | The Old Order Is Dead. Do Not Resuscitate.
www.nytimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Today at 12pm ET! Join us online for a Weatherhead Forum on the state of foreign policy one year after Trump's reelection. Register here 👉 https://loom.ly/WrGy78M
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November 5, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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New on Epicenter: Is the minerals deal with the US good for Ukraine? Olga Iermolenko, Valeriia Melnyk, and Carolyn Cordery reflect on past "deals" with world powers that ultimately compromised Ukraine, and call for transparency up front. https://loom.ly/byvgzs8
Seated at a desk, signing document: Ukrainian First Deputy Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko and US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent sign the minerals deal (United States–Ukraine Reconstruction Investment Fund) in Washington, DC on April 30, 2025.
November 3, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Check out our events for the week of November 2, 2025.
https://loom.ly/V-Z5djc
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November 1, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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As the UN marks its 80th year amid power struggles, funding woes, and declining cooperation, small states like Albania must ground their diplomacy in core values—not shifting alliances—to stay credible and impactful in a fractured world order. Read more from Ditmir Bushati: https://loom.ly/6LN7ql0
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October 31, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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For the 2026-27 academic year, we will offer two types of postdoctoral fellowships, with support from the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies and the Japan Foundation. Please see details and ARIeS application portals here: us-japan.wcfia.harvard.edu/apply-become...
Apply to become a Postdoctoral Fellow | Weatherhead
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October 29, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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We don’t need a revolution to address our biggest global economic challenges, only a reconfiguration of our priorities and policies, @drodrik.bsky.social argues. bit.ly/4oomh9J
Neglected Solutions to Our Biggest Problems
Dani Rodrik argues that we already have the tools we need to address the world's biggest economic challenges.
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October 29, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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A short piece on "forgotten" histories of citizenship for @scroll.in

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Forgotten migrants, unfinished decolonisation: Why Kalyani Ramnath writes about citizenship history
Ramnath’s book ‘Boats in a Storm’ centres on the legal struggles of migrants to retain their traditional rhythms and patterns of life.
scroll.in
October 26, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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Next week on 11/5, join us for a Weatherhead Forum webinar on the state of foreign policy one year after the US presidential election. Register now! https://loom.ly/WrGy78M
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October 29, 2025 at 4:06 PM