Power Politics

The challenge:

• Navigating whether and how to engage with authoritarian regimes in academic spaces
• Lending support to voices situated in authoritarian regimes, without jeopardizing their work and safety

The background and policy setting:

Miles Kahler is a distinguished professor at American University in the fields of international politics and international political economy and Senior Fellow for global governance

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The challenges:

• How to show the value of diversity and intersectionality for policymaking in an era of heightened polarization.
• How to effectively contribute to the policy arena as a black feminist when your expertise is in question from the gate given who you are.
• How to push against situations where your identity brings diversity, but you are expected

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The challenges:

• How to present novel, controversial ideas without damaging one’s credibility in the policy circles in which one travels
• How to present views that may be considered extreme, with the goal of reframing the policy space on a particular issue

The background and policy setting:

James Goldgeier has worked for many years on NATO. In the

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