“The US Elections: A First Appraisal”

The politics department is pleased to announce a panel discussion in the context of the Presidential Elections 2024, hosted at the John F. Kennedy Institute on November 7th, 2024. We have a fantastic line-up of leading scholars presenting cutting-edge research on the topic from a range of disciplinary, theoretical, and methodological perspectives.

Democracy: Still Under Siege? (10:00-11:15)

Sarah Wagner (Atlantische Akademie): Focus: Democrats

Philipp Adorf (Universität Bonn): Courts and the GOP

Julia Simon (Freie Universität Berlin/ Universität Bremen): The Extreme Right

Maren Freudenberg (Ruhr-Universität Bochum): The Christian Right

Curd Knüpfer (University of Southern Denmark): Far Right Media

Future of the Liberal International Order (11:30-12:45)

Thomas Biebricher (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt): Neoliberalism

Florian Böller (Universität Heidelberg): Polarization and Foreign Policy

Aaron Allen (Bard College Berlin): US Foreign Policy and Security

Lora Anne Viola (Freie Universität Berlin): American Liberal Internationalism