Milada Vachudova | Europe in the Face of War and America's Turn
Hall of Languages, 500
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The Center for European Studies at the Moynihan Institute presents Milada Anna Vachudova from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
The challenges facing European states in the quest for democracy security have come into sharp relief due to Russia’s war and America’s turn. The U.S. administration is attacking democratic allies and currying favor with authoritarian regimes. Can Europe dramatically ramp up its geopolitical power and its fight against Russia—even with the U.K. outside of the EU and authoritarian-minded regimes inside of it? Drawing on work coauthored with Nadiia Koval, Milada explores why defending liberal democratic values is an essential foundation of the EU’s current and potential geopolitical power—and should drive the expansion of its defense capabilities as well as its soft power to fill the void left by an autocratizing United States.
Milada Anna Vachudova is a professor of political science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her current projects include protest in defense of liberal democracy across Europe, the revival of EU enlargement, and the transformation of European politics and institutions owing to Russia’s war against Ukraine.
Her recent articles explore the trajectories of European states due to strengthening ethnopopulism and democratic backsliding—and how these changes are impacting party systems and civic participation. She is part of the core team of the Chapel Hill Expert Survey (CHES) on the positions of political parties across Europe.
Professor Vachudova holds a B.A. from Stanford University. As a British Marshall Scholar, she completed an M.Phil. and a D.Phil. at St. Antony’s College at the University of Oxford. She has held fellowships and grants from various institutions including the European University Institute, the Center for European Studies at Harvard University, the Center of International Studies at Princeton University, the National Science Foundation and the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research.
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