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by Dr. Simon Serfaty
The Center is pleased to host the inaugural lecture of a new series titled Rising Tide: Distinguished Lecture in International Affairs. The inaugural lecture will be delivered by Dr. Simon Serfaty.
An established authority on political transitions, Dr. Serfaty contends that the past 30 years (1991-2021) have been years of failed transitions: the end of the Cold War and its unipolar moment of global preponderance; September 11 and its unwinnable wars; the great recession and its unevenly shared recovery; the Arab Spring and its still-born democratic surge; Brexit and its challenge to Europe’s ever closer union; and more. The consequences have been cumulative and the next 20 years have been unfolding as years of an unpredictable global mutation. America remains the indispensable power, but over the next 20 years we will have to do better than we did over the previous 30: if not the United States who; if not with allies and partners, with whom; if not now, when?
Simon Serfaty is a professor and Eminent Scholar (emeritus since 2020) in U.S. foreign policy at Old Dominion University (ODU) in Norfolk, Virginia. He also holds the Zbigniew Brzezinski Chair in Global Security and Geostrategy (emeritus) at the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS).
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