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Faculty Research Forum: Bad Lieutenants with Andrew Mertha
Professor Andrew Mertha presents his new book, Bad Lieutenants: The Khmer Rouge, United Front, and Class Struggle, 1970–1997, in conversation with Professor Carla Freeman and Vice Dean for Faculty Affairs Peter M. Lewis.
Bad Lieutenants is a riveting account of how the Khmer Rouge remained a force to be reckoned with even after the fall of Democratic Kampuchea—and of the men behind the movement's strange durability.
In 1979, the Vietnamese army seized Phnom Penh, toppling Pol Pot's notoriously brutal regime. Yet the Khmer Rouge did not disintegrate. Instead, the movement continued to rule over swathes of Cambodia for almost another two decades even as it failed to become a legitimate governing organization.
Andrew Mertha argues that the Khmer Rouge's successes and failures were both driven by a refusal to dilute its revolutionary vision. Rather than take the moderate tack required for viable governance, it pivoted between only two political strategies: united front and class struggle. Through the…
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Wednesday, September 24, 2025, 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM.
555 Penn, Room 222 - Classroom.
Cyberdiplomacy: National Security, Conflict, Geopolitics and Foreign Policy in Cyberspace
SAIS Europe Campus
H. 9:30 am EDT / H. 3:30 pm CEST,
Christopher Painter, Senior Adviser, Strategic Technologies Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies; Founding Partner, The Cyber Policy Group; Former President, The Global Forum on Cyber Expertise Foundation, delivers a seminar in the Bologna Institute for Policy Research Series.
The event is hosted by Renaud Dehousse, Rector, Johns Hopkins SAIS Europe.
Categories: Campus - 555 Penn, Campus - Applied Physics Lab, Campus - Bologna, Campus - East Baltimore, Campus - Eastern, Campus - Harbor East, Campus - Homewood, Campus - Homewood Off Campus, Campus - Imagine Center, Campus - Keswick, Campus - Mount Washington, Campus - Nanjing, Campus - Online, Campus - Peabody, Audience (Event is Open to) - Alumni, Audience (Event is Open to) - Faculty, Audience (Event is Open to) - Invited Guests, Audience (Event is Open to) - Media, Audience (Event is Open to) - Public, Audience (… RSVP Link: https://jh.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_QA3EBWpKQhSgRyCPvEx9Og#/registration.
Thursday, September 25, 2025, 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM.
Virtual / Online.
Europe's Demographic Timebomb
SAIS Europe Campus
H. 12:00 pm EDT / H. 6:00 pm CEST
Giles Merritt, Journalist, Author and Broadcaster, delivers a seminar in the Bologna Institute for Policy Research Series.
The event is hosted by Michael Leigh, Academic Director, Master of Arts in European Public Policy and Senior Adjunct Professor.
Categories: Campus - 555 Penn, Campus - Applied Physics Lab, Campus - Bologna, Campus - East Baltimore, Campus - Eastern, Campus - Harbor East, Campus - Homewood, Campus - Homewood Off Campus, Campus - Imagine Center, Campus - Keswick, Campus - Mount Washington, Campus - Nanjing, Campus - Online, Campus - Peabody, Audience (Event is Open to) - Alumni, Audience (Event is Open to) - Faculty, Audience (Event is Open to) - Invited Guests, Audience (Event is Open to) - Media, Audience (Event is Open to) - Public, Audience (… RSVP Link: https://jh.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_JVy-xrB5QLCLfBarOGAYjw#/registration.
Monday, September 29, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM.
Virtual / Online.
Building the Belt and Road Initiative in the Arab World: China's Middle East Math
SAIS Europe Campus
H. 9:30 am EDT / H. 3:30 pm CEST
Jonathan Fulton, Associate Professor of Political Science, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Zayed University, Abu Dhabi; nonresident senior fellow for Middle East Programs and the Scowcroft Middle East Security Initiative, Atlantic Council, delivers a seminar in the Bologna Institute for Policy Research Series.
The event is hosted by Sanam Vakil, James Anderson Adjunct Professor, SAIS Europe; Director of Chatham House’s Middle East and North Africa Programme.
Categories: Campus - 555 Penn, Campus - Applied Physics Lab, Campus - Bologna, Campus - East Baltimore, Campus - Eastern, Campus - Harbor East, Campus - Homewood, Campus - Homewood Off Campus, Campus - Imagine Center, Campus - Keswick, Campus - Mount Washington, Campus - Nanjing, Campus - Online, Campus - Peabody, Audience (Event is Open to) - Alumni, Audience (Event is Open to) - Faculty, Audience (Event is Open to) - Invited Guests, Audience (Event is Open to) - Media, Audience (Event is Open to) - Public, Audience (… RSVP Link: https://jh.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_MQM8DkJVQ4S0XfZbTKJJGw#/registration.
Thursday, October 2, 2025, 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM.
Virtual / Online.
"Sensing the Climate”: How Do International Policy Makers 'Sense' Nature?
SAIS Europe Campus
H. 12:00 pm EDT / H. 6:00 pm CEST
Joanne Yao, Reader in International Relations at Queen Mary, University of London and Ludovica Chiussi Curzi, Senior Assistant Professor in Public International Law, University of Bologna, delivers a seminar as part of the Festival of Ecological Imagination.
The event is hosted by Nina Hall, Associate Professor of International Relations, SAIS Europe.
Categories: Campus - 555 Penn, Campus - Applied Physics Lab, Campus - Bologna, Campus - East Baltimore, Campus - Eastern, Campus - Harbor East, Campus - Homewood, Campus - Homewood Off Campus, Campus - Imagine Center, Campus - Keswick, Campus - Mount Washington, Campus - Nanjing, Campus - Online, Campus - Peabody, Audience (Event is Open to) - Alumni, Audience (Event is Open to) - Faculty, Audience (Event is Open to) - Invited Guests, Audience (Event is Open to) - Media, Audience (Event is Open to) - Public, Audience (… RSVP Link: https://jh.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_VIIZahLuQPKlx8FGwE0n2g#/registration.
Monday, October 6, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM.
Virtual / Online.
New Economic Challenges Facing the Middle East in the Trump Era
SAIS Europe Campus
9:30 am EDT / H. 3:30 pm CEST
Raed Safadi, Partner & Chief Economist, Whiteshield, delivers a seminar in the Bologna Institute for Policy Research Series.
The event is hosted by Michael G. Plummer, Eni Professor of International Economics, SAIS Europe.
Categories: Campus - 555 Penn, Campus - Applied Physics Lab, Campus - Bologna, Campus - East Baltimore, Campus - Eastern, Campus - Harbor East, Campus - Homewood, Campus - Homewood Off Campus, Campus - Imagine Center, Campus - Keswick, Campus - Mount Washington, Campus - Nanjing, Campus - Online, Campus - Peabody, Audience (Event is Open to) - Alumni, Audience (Event is Open to) - Faculty, Audience (Event is Open to) - Invited Guests, Audience (Event is Open to) - Media, Audience (Event is Open to) - Public, Audience (… RSVP Link: https://jh.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_iBOoFirETaKWGwutqPS-Dg#/registration.
Thursday, October 9, 2025, 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM.
Virtual / Online.
How Europeans Saw the World and Europe: Global Perspectives on European Integration since 1918
SAIS Europe Campus
H. 12:00 pm EDT / H. 6:00 pm CEST
Anne-Isabelle Richard, historian at Leiden University, delivers a seminar in the Bologna Institute for Policy Research Series.
The event is hosted by Mark Gilbert, C. Grove Haines Professor, Professor of History and International Studies, SAIS Europe.
Categories: Campus - 555 Penn, Campus - Applied Physics Lab, Campus - Bologna, Campus - East Baltimore, Campus - Eastern, Campus - Harbor East, Campus - Homewood, Campus - Homewood Off Campus, Campus - Imagine Center, Campus - Keswick, Campus - Mount Washington, Campus - Nanjing, Campus - Online, Campus - Peabody, Audience (Event is Open to) - Alumni, Audience (Event is Open to) - Faculty, Audience (Event is Open to) - Invited Guests, Audience (Event is Open to) - Media, Audience (Event is Open to) - Public, Audience (… RSVP Link: https://jh.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_EEMEyaJJR5qFF5QMbqI2GQ#/registration.
Monday, October 13, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM.
Virtual / Online.
Ethnicity and Public Opinion in Autocratic Regimes: Evidence from Russia
SAIS Europe Campus
H. 9:30 am EDT / H. 3:30 pm CEST,
Kyle Lohse Marquardt, Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Bergen, delivers a seminar in the Bologna Institute for Policy Research Series.
The event is hosted by Eugene Finkel, Kenneth H. Keller Professor of International Affairs, SAIS Europe.
Categories: Campus - 555 Penn, Campus - Applied Physics Lab, Campus - Bologna, Campus - East Baltimore, Campus - Eastern, Campus - Harbor East, Campus - Homewood, Campus - Homewood Off Campus, Campus - Imagine Center, Campus - Keswick, Campus - Mount Washington, Campus - Nanjing, Campus - Online, Campus - Peabody, Audience (Event is Open to) - Alumni, Audience (Event is Open to) - Faculty, Audience (Event is Open to) - Invited Guests, Audience (Event is Open to) - Media, Audience (Event is Open to) - Public, Audience (… RSVP Link: https://jh.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_2FuiI5G9Q3qDRu-LZtzegg#/registration.
Thursday, October 16, 2025, 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM.
Virtual / Online.