Peace Day Amid New Risks and Rising Nationalism

Media briefing on the state of nationalism and global peace

International Day of Peace is Saturday, September 21, and in advance Carnegie Corporation of New York is hosting a media briefing. Three distinguished experts (Jack L. Snyder, Rajan Menon, and Jessica Chen Weiss) will share the latest on several threats to peace—Hong Kong, Kashmir, Russia, a no-deal Brexit, the U.S.-China trade war—and how they fit in a new context of heightened nationalism. Each expert will share five-minute remarks before taking your questions directly. Additional details are below. If you would like to join, please RSVP to Michael Rettig at mdr@carnegie.org. 

Date: Tuesday, September 17. 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.

Dial-in: 877-876-9177 (ID: CARNEGIE)

Topic: A no-deal Brexit. Chinese troops outside Hong Kong. An Indian-imposed blackout in Kashmir, U.S. trade wars. As Peace Day approaches, some consequences of rising nationalism are already clear. How will these and other conflicts evolve in an era of heightened nationalism? And what can we expect next?

Speakers:

Rajan Menon holds the Anne and Bernard Spitzer chair in international relations at the City University of New York, is a senior research scholar at the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia University, and non-resident fellow at the Quincy Institute. He is a scholar of Russia and has authored a number of books and articles, most recently “Conflict in Ukraine: The Unwinding of the Post-Cold War Order” (coauthored with Eugene Rumer) and “The Conceit of Humanitarian Intervention.”

Jack L. Snyder is a professor of international relations at Columbia University. As a longtime expert on nationalism, his prolific writing and commentary includes the book “From Voting to Violence: Democratization and Nationalist Conflict” (2000) and the Foreign Affairs article describing nationalism’s reemergence, “The Broken Bargain,” published earlier this year. 

Jessica Chen Weiss is associate professor of government at Cornell University. She is the author of “Powerful Patriots: Nationalist Protest in China’s Foreign Relations” (2014) and recently published a Foreign Affairs piece on China’s rise titled, “A World Safe for Autocracy?”

Stephen del Rosso, program director for international peace and security at the Carnegie Corporation of New York, will open the call.