Welcome to a special talk by the professors of The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.

Monica Duffy Toft is a Professor of International Politics and Director of the Center for Strategic Studies at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Before joining Fletcher, Professor Monica Duffy Toft taught at Oxford University’s Blavatnik School of Government and Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. While at Harvard, she directed the Initiative on Religion in International Affairs and was the assistant director of the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies.

Daniel W. Drezner is a Professor of International Politics, a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and a contributing editor at The Washington Post. Prior to joining The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, he taught at the University of Chicago and the University of Colorado at Boulder. He has previously held positions with Civic Education Project, the RAND Corporation and the U.S. Department of the Treasury, and received fellowships from the German Marshall Fund of the United States, Council on Foreign Relations, and Harvard University.

Dr. Toft and Dr. Drezner will discuss factors that affect the rise and fall of the great powers, such as technological advances and demographics, and how the global health and economic consequences of COVID-19 can impact great power status. They will focus on the changes taking place today in the United States, Russia, China, India, and the European Union. You can register for the event on Timepad and watch it on Facebook Live.