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The Ecology of Nations: American Democracy in a Fragile World Order with Professor John Owen

In 2024 the Phelan US Centre spoke to Professor John Owen, Ambassador Henry J. and Mrs. Marion R. Taylor Professor of Politics and Senior Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture and the Miller Center for Public Affairs at the University of Virginia. They discussed his new book, ‘The Ecology of Nations: American Democracy in a Fragile World Order’, the United States’ changing foreign policy objectives, and the move from welfare liberalism to open liberalism in the post-war period and beyond.

John Owen

The Ecology of Nations: American Democracy in a Fragile World Order with Professor John Owen | The Ballpark podcast

In 2024 the Phelan US Centre spoke to Professor John Owen, Ambassador Henry J. and Mrs. Marion R. Taylor Professor of Politics, Senior Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture and the Miller Center for Public Affairs at the University of Virginia, and an Academic Visitor at Nuffield College, University of Oxford from January to June 2024. They discussed his new book, ‘The Ecology of Nations: American Democracy in a Fragile World Order’, the United States’ changing foreign policy objectives, and the move from welfare liberalism to open liberalism in the post-war period and beyond.

John Owen

Which Metaphor Applies to the Supreme Court? You Be the Judge

As it wrestles with some of the most vexatious issues of our time (presidential immunity and electoral eligibility, affirmative action, homelessness, reproductive rights, religion, voting access, and immigration, to name just a few), figures of speech used to label the court by journalists, jurists, and scholars throughout history have come to the fore. Which apply in this fraught and polarized era?

Barbara Perry

Where does RFK Jr. fit in the history of third-party candidates?

"It was the swing state in 2000 with Bush and Gore that was decided by anywhere from three to 500 votes total - so it only can be a few hundred votes that could cause a third-party candidate to cause one of the two major party candidates to lose," says Barbara Perry, a presidential historian at the University of Virginia's Miller Center.

Barbara Perry

‘Mom’ legislators see their numbers, influence grow but barriers to elected office remain

Increased representation of moms in office doesn’t mean the behind-the-scenes burdens have lessened, said Jennifer Lawless, the Leone Reaves and George W. Spicer Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia and chair of its politics department.

Jennifer Lawless

Biden’s isolation grows as Gaza report both criticizes and clears Israel

“There are two large groups of voters in the United States today when it comes to the domestic protests: people who want the president to stop the rage and people who want the president to solve the issues that have created the rage," said Russell Riley, a presidential historian at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center.

Russell Riley, Mara Rudman