A World In Disarray… How Did We Get Here? What Do We Do Now? – Dr. Charles Kupchan
Global Issues Series II
Thursdays in Sarasota
The stable international order erected on America’s watch is unraveling. Democracy is losing ground to autocracy; globalized markets are fragmenting; and great-power rivalry is back. Dr. Charles Kupchan will diagnose the sources of global disarray and offer a roadmap for building a new order fit for the emerging multipolar world.
Speaker
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Kupchan, Charles, DrProfessor of International Affairs in the School of Foreign Service and Government Department at Georgetown University, and Senior Fellow of the Council on Foreign RelationsDr. Charles Kupchan is Professor of International Affairs in the School of Foreign Service and Government Department at Georgetown University, and Senior Fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations. From 2014 to 2017, Dr. Kupchan served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for European Affairs on the National Security Council in the Obama White House.
He was also Director for European Affairs on the National Security Council during the first Clinton Administration. His most recent books include Isolationism: A History of America’s Efforts to Shield Itself from the World (2020); No One’s World: The West, the Rising Rest, and the Coming Global Turn (2012), and How Enemies Become Friends: The Sources of Stable Peace (2010).
During 2006-2007, he was the Henry A. Kissinger Scholar at the Library of Congress and was a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. During 2013-2014, he was a Senior Fellow at the Transatlantic Academy.
Kupchan received a B.A. from Harvard University and M.Phil. and D.Phil. degrees from Oxford University. He has served as a visiting scholar at Harvard University’s Center for International Affairs, Columbia University’s Institute for War and Peace Studies.


