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Global power is shifting, and the ripple effects are impacting alliances, trade, security, and humanitarian crises. Join UW Now Live for a fact-based conversation on today’s geopolitical shake-up, including Western Hemisphere influence; tensions involving Greenland, NATO, and Ukraine; the crisis in Gaza; and China’s growing role on the world stage.
Some key questions we’ll discuss:
- Is there a written version of U.S. national security strategy, and if so, how has that changed in recent years?
- Do changes in U.S. rhetoric and behavior align with the changes in stated strategy? And how might these changes shape the way the United States is viewed and treated by the rest of the world?
- Beyond the U.S., how are these shifts reshaping relationships among other countries — and where might new alliances or tensions be forming without the United States at the center?
Join fellow UW alumni and friends online for a livestream and Q & A with a panel of experts who will discuss this evolving topic. The talk will be moderated by Mike Knetter from the Wisconsin Foundation and Alumni Association.
Speakers
Yoshiko Herrera is a former director of the Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia at UW–Madison. Before arriving in Madison in 2007, she was the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of Social Sciences at Harvard University. Her research focuses on Russia, nationalism and ethnic politics, and political economy, and has been published in numerous academic outlets. Herrera teaches courses on comparative politics, social identities and diversity, and the Russian war on Ukraine. In 2024 she was a recipient of a Distinguished Honors Faculty Award from the L&S Honors Program at the UW. She is also the former director of the UW–Madison partnership with Nazarbayev University in Kazakhstan. She earned a PhD in political science from the University of Chicago.
Jon Pevehouse is the Mary Herman Rubinstein Professor in the Department of Political Science at UW–Madison. An expert in international relations and American foreign policy and an award-winning instructor, he has taught on campus for more than 25 years. He is the coauthor of the leading textbook in his field, International Relations, and editor emeritus of the journal International Organization. His research interests lie in international relations, international political economy, American foreign policy, and political methodology. He earned a PhD from Ohio State University.
This event is hosted by the Wisconsin Alumni Association®.
