February 5, 2024 | 9:00—10:00 AM ET / 2:00-3:00 PM GMT | Hybrid Due to popular demand, in-person registrations have reached capacity. Future RSVPs will be for a virtual audience only. In the face of unprecedented global attention and interest in the World Bank, President...
February 6, 2024 | 10:00 AM| Virtual Ricardo Hausmann from Harvard University sparked a heated debate in 2017 on the role of Wall Street in financing wannabe autocrats by calling Venezuela’s government debt “The Hunger Bonds.” Drawing from an analogy between investing in environmentally harmful...
February 6, 2024 | 11:30 am - 1:00 pm | Virtual Since mid-October 2023, Yemen's Houthi militia has carried out repeated attacks on Red Sea maritime commerce, disrupting global trade and prompting the United States and United Kingdom to launch retaliatory airstrikes as well as...
February 07, 2024 | 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm EST | Virtual 2024 will be a historic year for elections. Democracies comprising 41% of the world’s population and 42% of its GDP will cast their votes around the globe. Yet recent shifts in the information...
February 12, 2024 | 11:00am – 12:00pm ET | Virtual Rather than fixating on the Belt and Road Initiative’s (BRI) many well discussed negative attributes, Simon Curtis and Ian Klaus, authors of the soon-to-be-released book The Belt and Road City: Geopolitics, Urbanization, and China’s Search...
Monday, February 12, 2024 | 3:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. EST | Hybrid The relations of the European Union and the United States with Latin America are currently dominated by four preconceptions: 1) Latin America is a political failure; 2) Latin America is an economic...
February 13, 2024 | 12:00pm to 1:30pm | Hybrid This panel will discuss Javier Milei's presidency focusing on his reform initiative, Argentina's institutions, and more. Speakers: Carla Yumatle, Professor of Political Theory, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. Federico Sturzenegger, Full Professor of Economics and Business, Universidad de San...
February 14, 2024 | 8:30 - 9:30 AM | Virtual With ongoing conflicts in Europe and the Middle East, the international community’s ability to uphold a liberal international order continues to be tested. In addition, with numerous elections taking place across the globe, including the...
February 15, 2024 | 4:30pm to 6:30pm | Hybrid Speaker: Juan Luis Manfredi, Príncipe de Asturías Distinguished Visiting Professor, Georgetown University. Moderated by Javier Lafuente Preciados, Harvard Nieman Fellow. This event is hybrid, to attend register here. Co-sponsored by the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the...
February 15, 2024 | 7:00-8:00PM | Virtual Victor Blue, 2023-24 ASU Future Security Fellow, photojournalist and writer focusing on the legacy of armed conflict, his work appears in the New York Times, the New Yorker, and Harper’s Magazine, earned seven Pictures of the Year International awards, five NPPA...
February 16, 2024 | 12:30 PM | Virtual Remittances to the Latin America and Caribbean region in 2023 were over US$160 billion, five percent of the region’s income as part of continued growth. Recent data shows that a competitive and diverse number of money transfer...
February 20, 2024 | 12:00pm to 1:20pm | Hybrid This project examines citizens' commitment to democracy and their role in monitoring politicians' undemocratic behavior. The most commonly used measures of support for democracy come from public opinion surveys, based on questions that may suffer from...
February 23, 2024 | 11:00am – 12:00pm ET | Virtual Brazil assumed the presidency of the G20 in December 2023, a significant role in foreign policy for President Lula's administration. The G20 includes the 19 wealthiest countries globally, alongside the African Union and the European...
February 27, 2024 | 12:00pm to 1:20pm | Hybrid We experimentally evaluate the social and political consequences of a military policing intervention in Cali, Colombia, one of the world’s most violent cities. Despite null or adverse effects on crime and human rights, we show that...