Department of Politics at Princeton University

Beth Simmons, the Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs and director of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University, has been selected as the “Joseph S. Nye, Jr. ’58 Lecturer” for the spring 2013 semester at the Woodrow Wilson School.   The lecture series is named after Woodrow Wilson School alum, Joseph S. Nye Jr., ’58, who is considered the co-founder of the international relations theory on “neoliberalism” a

Jan-Werner Mueller has published a short book on the controversial question whether the European Union is legitimated to intervene in its own Member States to protect liberal democracy (see http://www.suhrkamp.de/edition-suhrkamp-digital/wo-europa-endet_1002.html).  Mueller’s volume offers a case-study of Hungary, where a right-wing populist government has been undermining the rule of law since 2010, before advancing a range of arguments drawn from democratic theory as to why Brussel