BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 15.1//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:The Moynihan Institute in partnership with the Campbell Institu te welcomes Stephen E. Hanson from William &\; Mary\, and Jeffrey S. Ko pstein from the University of California\, Irvine. \;Across the world\ , in countries as diverse as Hungary\, Israel and the U.S.\, attacks on th e modern state and its workforce are intensifying. These attacks are led b y self-aggrandizing politicians who attempt to seize control of the state for themselves and their cronies. What replaces the modern state—professio nal  \;government agencies organized under the rule of law—once it is fatally undermined is an earlier\, more destructive form of politics: the rule of men. In their new book\, “The Assault on the State: How the Global Attack on Modern Government Endangers Our Future\,” Hanson and Kopstein d escribe the dangers of state erosion and outline a strategy that can rever se this destructive trend.Book signing to follow. Stephen E. Hanson is the Lettie Pate Evans Professor in the Department of Government at William &a mp\; Mary\, where he previously served as vice provost for academic and in ternational affairs (2011–2022) and director of the Reves Center for Inter national Studies (2011–2021). Harvard-educated scholar with a Ph.D. in pol itical science from UC Berkeley\, Hanson is an expert on post-communist Ru ssia\, comparative political ideologies\, and institutional change. His bo oks include “Post-Imperial Democracies” and “Time and Revolution\,” the la tter receiving the 1998 Wayne S. Vucinich Award. He has held visiting posi tions at Harvard\, Yale and Oxford\, and served as team lead for Russian d omestic politics in the Obama 2008 foreign policy advisory group. Hanson h as received prestigious teaching awards\, significant grant funding\, and lectured widely at leading academic and policy institutions globally. He a lso serves on several journal editorial boards and the board of advisors f or the National Bureau of Asian Research.Jeffrey Kopstein is Dean’s Profes sor of Political Science at the University of California\, Irvine. In his research\, Kopstein focuses on interethnic violence\, voting patterns of minority groups\, antisemitism and anti-liberal tendencies in civil societ y. These interests are central topics in his latest books\, “Intimate Viol ence: Anti-Jewish Pogroms on the Eve of the Holocaust” (Cornell University Press\, 2018)\, “Politics\, Memory\, Violence: The New Social Science of the Holocaust” (Cornell University Press\, 2023)\, and “The Assault on the State: How the Global Attack on Modern Government Endangers our Future” ( Polity\, 2024). \; DTEND:20250131T203000Z DTSTAMP:20260414T180856Z DTSTART:20250131T190000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:The Assault on the State UID:RFCALITEM639117725364142266 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

The Moynihan Institute in partnership with the Campbell Institute welcomes Stephen E. Hanson from William &\; Mary \, and Jeffrey S. Kopstein from the University of Califor nia\, Irvine. \;

Across the world\, in countries as diverse as H ungary\, Israel and the U.S.\, attacks on the modern state and its workfor ce are intensifying. These attacks are led by self-aggrandizing politician s who attempt to seize control of the state for themselves and their croni es. What replaces the modern state—professional  \;government agencies organized under the rule of law—once it is fatally undermined is an earli er\, more destructive form of politics: the rule of men. In their new book \, “The Assault on the State: How the Global Attack on Modern Government E ndangers Our Future\,” Hanson and Kopstein describe the dangers of state e rosion and outline a strategy that can reverse this destructive trend.

Book signing to follow.

Stephen E. Hanson is th e Lettie Pate Evans Professor in the Department of Government at William & amp\; Mary\, where he previously served as vice provost for academic and i nternational affairs (2011–2022) and director of the Reves Center for Inte rnational Studies (2011–2021).

Harvard-educated scholar with a Ph.D . in political science from UC Berkeley\, Hanson is an expert on post-comm unist Russia\, comparative political ideologies\, and institutional change . His books include “Post-Imperial Democracies” and “Time and Revolution\, ” the latter receiving the 1998 Wayne S. Vucinich Award.

He has hel d visiting positions at Harvard\, Yale and Oxford\, and served as team lea d for Russian domestic politics in the Obama 2008 foreign policy advisory group. Hanson has received prestigious teaching awards\, significant grant funding\, and lectured widely at leading academic and policy institutions globally. He also serves on several journal editorial boards and the boar d of advisors for the National Bureau of Asian Research.

Jef frey Kopstein is Dean’s Professor of Political Science at the Uni versity of California\, Irvine. In his research\, Kopstein focuses on int erethnic violence\, voting patterns of minority groups\, antisemitism and anti-liberal tendencies in civil society. These interests are central topi cs in his latest books\, “Intimate Violence: Anti-Jewish Pogroms on the Ev e of the Holocaust” (Cornell University Press\, 2018)\, “Politics\, Memory \, Violence: The New Social Science of the Holocaust” (Cornell University Press\, 2023)\, and “The Assault on the State: How the Global Attack on Mo dern Government Endangers our Future” (Polity\, 2024). \;

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