BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:icalendar-ruby CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Polarization and International Politics X-WR-TIMEZONE:Pacific Time (US & Canada) BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260909T073128Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_52321140655709 DTSTART:20260528T223000Z DTEND:20260529T000000Z DESCRIPTION:About the event: Polarization is a defining feature of politics in the United States and many other democracies. Yet although there is mu ch research focusing on the effects of polarization on domestic politics\, little is known about how polarization influences international cooperati on and conflict. Democracies are thought to have advantages over nondemocr atic nations in international relations\, including the ability to keep fo reign policy stable across time\, credibly signal information to adversari es\, and maintain commitments to allies. Does domestic polarization affect these “democratic advantages”? This book argues that polarization res hapes the nature of constraints on democratic leaders\, which in turn erod es the advantages democracies have in foreign affairs.\n\nDrawing on a ran ge of evidence\, including cross-national analyses\, observational and exp erimental public opinion research\, descriptive data on the behavior of po liticians\, and interviews with policymakers\, Myrick develops metrics tha t explain the effect of extreme polarization on international politics and traces the pathways by which polarization undermines each of the democrat ic advantages. Turning to the case of contemporary US foreign policy\, Myr ick shows that as its political leaders become less responsive to the publ ic and less accountable to political opposition\, the United States loses both reliability as an ally and credibility as an adversary. Myrick’s ac count links the effects of polarization on democratic governance to theori es of international relations\, integrating work across the fields of inte rnational relations\, comparative politics\, and American politics to expl ore how patterns of domestic polarization shape the international system.\ n\nAbout the speaker: Rachel Myrick is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Duke University. She studies the domestic politics of internat ional security\, with an emphasis on how polarization affects contemporary US foreign policy. Her first book\, Polarization and International Politi cs: How Extreme Partisanship Threatens Global Stability\, was published in 2025 by Princeton University Press in their Studies in International Hist ory & Politics. Her academic work is published in journals like Internatio nal Organization\, International Studies Quarterly\, Journal of Conflict R esolution\, and Journal of Politics\, among others. Dr. Myrick completed h er PhD in 2021 at the Department of Political Science at Stanford Universi ty. GEO:37.427319;-122.164625 LOCATION:Encina Hall\, William J. Perry Conference Room SUMMARY:Polarization and International Politics URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.stanford.edu/event/polarization-and-internatio nal-politics CATEGORIES:Lecture/Presentation/Talk END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR