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Sheri Berman

Sheri Berman

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Sheri Berman, Professor of Political Science at Barnard College, Columbia University, is the author of The Social Democratic Moment: Ideas and Politics in the Making of Interwar Europe (Harvard University Press, 1998), The Primacy of Politics: Social Democracy and the Making of Europe’s Twentieth Century (Cambridge University Press, 2006), and Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe: From the Ancien Régime to the Present Day (Oxford University Press, 2019).

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  1. How Serious Is Europe’s Anti-Democratic Threat?
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    How Serious Is Europe’s Anti-Democratic Threat?

    Jun 10, 2024 Sheri Berman considers whether right-wing populist parties pose a genuine danger to democracy in the region.

  2. The Great Crack-Up, Then and Now
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    The Great Crack-Up, Then and Now

    May 4, 2018 Sheri Berman reviews four books examining the global disorder following World War I, and draws parallels to today.

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    In Praise of First-Past-the-Post

    Andrés Velasco explains why Britain’s electoral system is better than all the plausible alternatives.
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    Peacebuilding in the Middle East Requires Women

    Anne-Marie Slaughter & Xanthe Scharff argue that negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians must no longer be the province of men.
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    Macron and Europe’s Centrists Are Out of Good Options

    Yanis Varoufakis shows that an intractable economic conundrum lies behind the current impasse in French politics.
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    Immigration Does Not Start at the US Border

    Carlos Alvarado-Quesada laments the failure of Republicans and Democrats alike to address the root causes of migration.
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    Will AI Kill Off Money?

    Jean-Pierre Landau considers some of the underappreciated implications of an economy run entirely by machines.
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    A Philosopher for Our Times

    Enrique Krauze shows that, given rising illiberalism, the seventeenth-century thinker Baruch Spinoza is as relevant as ever.
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    A New Worldview for Troubled Times

    Dennis J. Snower proposes four principles to guide policymaking and global negotiations in the age of climate change.
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    Navigating Today’s Frothy Financial Markets

    Dambisa Moyo offers a basic framework for assessing the risk of new bubbles and their potential spillover effects.
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    An Arab Spring for Bangladesh?

    M. Niaz Asadullah argues that young protestors could help the country chart a democratic course and achieve sustainable growth.

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