Lecture Series on the Future of the Transatlantic Relationship
Second Event: Notions of Global and Transatlantic Security for the 2020s
Prof. Nukhet Sandal is Associate Professor and Chair of Political Science at Ohio University.
Our second public lecture at the Transatlantic Student Summit 2021 addresses notions of security transforming amidst the continuing turbulence in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Following the political upheaval in previous years, there is a growing understanding that basic concepts of security and diplomacy are in fundamental transition. How Europe understands the United States, and how the U.S./ Europe understand themselves, is intricately connected to the tectonic shifts taking place in the norms, institutions, and interests. These shifts are shaping the debate about how to define and pursue or construct security and diplomacy in the coming decade.
For example, the debate in recent years pits the liberal world order built up after World War II against more authoritarian leaning political cultures from China to Russia, and a wave of populist politics from the Philippines to Poland, from America to Great Britain. At the same time, certain regions and populations within our societies mark a for many unexpected return of political geography, as support for movements that promote tighter migration or border policies flourishes in constituencies that express resentment from feeling left-behind by structural changes of recent decades. Accordingly, the discussion involves the very building blocks for any new model of security for international cooperation: what values should receive priority, what sort of institutions should be promoted, what are the interests of participants that should be pursued.
Our lecture will take a look at the intricate example of NATO and Turkey in recent years. It will provide the material to elaborate on the changing nature of alliances, the influence of religion, differing approaches to diplomacy and immigration, and populism, too. We could not be happier to have such a distinguished expert for that matter—Professor Nukhet Sandal.
Professor Sandal holds the Chair of Political Science at Ohio University. She earned her PhD in Politics and International Relations from University of Southern California in 2010, and she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Watson Institute of International Studies at Brown University from 2010-13. Her research and teaching interests include human security, religion and global politics, conflict management and politics of divided societies. Currently, Dr. Sandal serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of International Studies.
The lecture series on the Future of Transatlantic Relations is part of our annual Ohio-Leipzig Transatlantic Student Summit.