Yale Postdoctoral Trainees

Please join us for a special ISS Discussion Forum featuring The Honorable Michèle Flournoy, focused on the challenges to world order, including Russia’s horrific invasion with Ukraine, geopolitical competition with China, and the threats and opportunities associated with emerging technologies.
Michèle is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of WestExec Advisors, and former Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), where she currently serves as Chair of the Board of Directors.

International Security Studies will host a Visiting Fellow Discussion Forum featuring Fiona Hill, PhD, senior fellow in the Center on the United States and Europe in the Foreign Policy program at Brookings. 
Hill’s latest book, “There is Nothing Here for You: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century,” chronicles how declining opportunity has set America on the grim path similar to modern Russia—and draws on her personal journey out of poverty, as well as her unique perspectives as an historian and policy maker, to show how we can return hope to our forgotten places.

The Franke Lectures in the Humanities
Babak Amini, London School of Economics

Babak Amini is a PhD candidate in sociology at the London School of Economics, researching on the “council democratic” movements in Germany and Italy in the World War I era. He is the coeditor (with Marcello Musto) of the forthcoming Routledge Handbook of Marx’s “Capital”: A Global History of Translation, Dissemination and Reception. He is also the coordinating assistant editor of the book series Marx, Engels, and Marxisms.