Lettie Pate Evans Professor, The College of William & Mary; Visiting Scholar 2022-2023, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Dean's Professor of Political Science, University of California, Irvine; James Bryant Conant Fellow in Germany and European Studies (1995-1996), Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Director, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University; David Rockefeller Professor of Latin American Studies and Professor of Government, Harvard University
Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology, Harvard University; Faculty Associate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Director, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies & Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, Harvard University; Unit Director, Transformations of Democracy, WZB Berlin Social Science Center
Lower Level Conference Room, Adolphus Busch Hall
Directions
The erosion of the modern state in countries around the world is signaling a change in governance from the rule of law to the rule of men. What happens to countries when this foundation is eroded? Join Stephen Hanson and Jeffrey S. Kopstein to discuss their recent book, The Assault on the State: How the Global Attack on Modern Government Endangers Our Future(Polity, 2024), which dissects the attack on the machinery of government from its origins in post-Soviet Russia to the core powers of Western democracy and describes the dangers of state erosion for all aspects of society. Hanson and Kopstein also outline a strategy to reverse this trend and defend modern government against those who seek to destroy it.