Harborcreek Satellite: The Rise of Authoritarianism: What Failed Democratization Stands to Teach the US, Other Democracies
Authoritarianism is on the rise worldwide, while at the same time we are witness a steady decline in democracy globally. Drawing from her five-part essay series published by the JES, "'I've Seen This Before': What Failed Democratization Can Teach Us About Democratic Erosion," JES Scholar-in-Residence Dr. Lena Surzhko-Harned will review the impacts of these trends, highlighting what lessons the United States and other democracies stand to learn.
This is a Brock Institute for Mega Issues Education lecture.
JES Satellite Programming is sponsored by Erie Insurance.
Location: Harborcreek Twp Building - 5601 Buffalo Rd, Harborcreek 16421
Date/Time: Wednesday, March 4, 6-7:30PM
Admission: FREE
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Lena Surzhko Harned, Ph.D., is an associate teaching professor of Political Science. She is also the associate director and a faculty affiliate of the Public Policy Fund at Penn State Behrend. Her primary research interests are in the field of comparative politics.
She is an author of several papers dealing with issues of nationalism and ethnic conflict, identity politics, electoral politics, comparative democratization, and political behavior in the post-communist states of Eastern Europe.
Her co-authored book, Post-Soviet Legacies and Conflicting Values in Europe: Generation WhY, was published in 2017 and examines the intergenerational conflict and consequences in post-Soviet Ukraine and Russia.
