Rethinking World Order: risk, opportunity, transformation?
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Featured Speakers
Dr. Daniel Bessner is an intellectual historian and journalist whose work has focused on three areas of inquiry: the history and contemporary practice of U.S. foreign relations; the history and theory of liberalism; and, most recently, the history and practice of the entertainment industry.
In 2019-2020, Daniel served as a foreign policy advisor to Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign; in 2024, for unclear reasons, the Russian government sanctioned him.
Daniel is co-host of the foreign affairs podcast American Prestige, which is produced in partnership with The Nation magazine. He has appeared on several national television shows, including HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, CNN’s Smerconish, and NPR’s Fresh Air.
He is currently the Anne H.H. and Kenneth B. Pyle Associate Professor in American Foreign Policy in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. Daniel is also a Non-Resident Fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, an Associate of the Alameda Institute, and a Contributing Editor at Jacobin.
Dr. Bessner earned a B.A. in History from Columbia University, a B.A. in Jewish History from the Jewish Theological Seminary, and both an M.A. and PhD in History from Duke University.
Dr. Nadia Schadlow served as U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor of Strategy in 2018 during the first Trump administration. In that capacity she led the drafting and publication of the 2017 National Security Strategy of the United States. She also served in the Defense Department.
She is currently a senior fellow at Hudson Institute and co-chair of Hamilton Commission on Securing America’s National Security Innovation Base.
Nadia conducts research and analysis on a range of issues at the intersection of strategy, national security, and technology. She writes on topics that include the vulnerabilities of US supply chains in areas such as advanced batteries and energetic materials; the relationship between climate and defense policy; and the disconnects between strategy and operational policies. Her articles have appeared in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The Hill, Parameters, the Wall Street Journal, Philanthropy, and several edited volumes.
Dr. Schadlow holds a B.A. in government and Soviet studies from Cornell University and an M.A. and PhD from the John Hopkins Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).
Moderator
Dr. Michael Goodhart is a past President of the American Political Science Association's Human Rights section. He also chaired the APSA Presidential Task Force on Democracy, Economic Security, and Social Justice in a Volatile World. Goodhart is an affiliate of the Human Rights Institute at the University of Connecticut and a member of the Center for Ethics and Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. He is currently President of the board of directors of The Global Switchboard, a network stewardship organization that promotes equitable global engagement in the Pittsburgh region, and a member of the steering committee for the Pittsburgh Human Rights City Alliance.
At Pitt, Michael Goodhart is Professor of Political Science and of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies. He is also Professor (by courtesy) of Philosophy and a faculty fellow in the University Honors College. From 2017-2021 he directed the University's Global Studies Center. In AY 2021-22, he is a fellow in residence of the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in Uppsala. He is a past Alexander von Humboldt Foundation research fellow (2008-09) and was Guest Professor in the Hertie School of Governance, Berlin (2008-10). In 2018 he won the Provost's Award for Diversity in the Curriculum, and he is a member of the Provost's Committee on Anti-Black Racism and Transformative Pedagogy
Dr. Goodhart earned a B.A. in Government and Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia, and both an M.A. and PhD in Political Science from UCLA.