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Spotlight
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Mellichamp Professor Alison Brysk hosts a workshop asking the questions, 'What are the common patterns and national distinctions of the worldwide wave of nationalist violence?', and 'How can we contest these patterns and reconfigure the international rights regime and democratic institutions to address them?' -
A new essay collection, edited by Global Dynamics Initiative members Victor Faessel and Michael Curtin together with Richard Falk, gathers a wide range of perspectives on reviving public imagination in a time of worldwide populist politics, nationalist resurgence, and climate crisis. -
In this seminal text, Mellichamp Professor Jan Nederveen Pieterse disputes the view that we are experiencing a “clash of civilizations” as well as the idea that globalization leads to cultural homogenization, arguing instead that we are witnessing the formation of a global mélange culture through processes of cultural mixing or hybridization.
