Divisions in the Western Liberal Consensus
2023 Summer Conference:
Divisions in the Western Liberal Consensus
The Salvatori Center and the CMC Policy Lab recently hosted a special conference in Saint-Paul de Vence, France, where a group of US and European scholars convened to discuss how to strengthen democratic institutions in the US and the EU.
Zachary Courser
Co-Director, CMC Policy Lab
Fellow, Bipartisan Policy Center
Aurelian Crăiuțu
Political Science Chair,
Indiana University Bloomington
Michael Fortner
CMC; Criminal Justice Senior Fellow, Niskanen Center
Eric Helland
Co-Director, CMC Policy Lab
Maya Kandel
Associate Researcher at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3
Laurence Nardon
Head of North American Program, Institut Français des Relations Internationales
Peter Neumann
Professor of Security Studies
King's College, London
Mathilde Philip-Gay
Co-Director of the Center on Constitutional Rights, Universitè Lyon III
Invasion of Ukraine
The conference encompassed two full days of discussions in a seminar format led by various experts.
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The first day's discussion centered on the lure of illiberalism, populism, nationalism and how these idealistic divisions have been strengthened by the Russian War in Ukraine.
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The second day addressed western liberal policies that have been impacted by these challenges, such as foreign, defense and economic policies.
Dalibor Rohac
American Enterprise Institute Fellow
Jon Shields
CMC; Co-Director of the Open Academy
George Thomas
CMC; Director of the Salvatori Center for the Study of Individual Freedom
Divisions in the Western Liberal Consensus
2023 Fall Conference:
Citizenship, Knowledge, and
Constitutional Democracy
Held at CMC with Critical Review
Essays will be featured in symposium in Critical Review in 2024.
Elizabeth Beaumont
Associate Professor of Politics
UC Santa Cruz
Nick Buccola
Professor of Government,
Claremont McKenna College
Simone Chambers
Professor of Political Science,
UC Irvine
Sam De Canio
Senior Lecturer in Political Economy, King's College
Kevin Elliott
Lecturer in Ethics, Politics & Economics, Yale
John Finn
Professor Emeritus in the Department of Government, Weselyan University
Jeremy Fortier
Professor of Politics, Colgate University
Russell Muirhead
Professor of Democracy and Politics, Dartmouth College
Josiah Ober
Professor of Political Science, Stanford
Melissa Schwartzberg
Professor of Politics, NYU
George Thomas
CMC; Director of the Salvatori Center for the Study of Individual Freedom
ABOUT IMS
The Salvatori Center co-sponsored the inaugural conference of the International Machiavelli Society (IMS), which took place in Rome, between December 13th and 16th, 2023. Over the course of four days, more than 120 Machiavelli scholars from around the world discussed Machiavelli's views on liberty, the state, and war, his literary works and new information regarding his life, as well as new documents recently discovered in archives, which will enrich our understanding of his famous treatises, The Prince and Discourses on Livy.
Plenary sessions throughout the conference brought together authors of the most important books on Machiavelli written in the past ten years. Several panels were also devoted to the reception of Machiavelli's thought and the ways in which it influenced modern political philosophy around the world, over the past 500 years. The IMS presented a lifetime achievement award to Harvey C. Mansfield, for his contributions to the study of Machiavelli, not least through his translations of his works into English.
The conference was hosted by Università Roma Tre, and the inaugural sessions took place at the Capitol, where the welcome address was delivered by the Mayor of Rome, Roberto Gualtieri. The conference was featured in several major Italian newspapers. The founding committee of the IMS includes Salvatori faculty member Ioannis D. Evrigenis. Planning is underway for the next conference, which will most likely take place in Paris, in 2025, to be followed by a conference in Machiavelli's home city, Florence, in 2027, the 500th anniversary of Machiavelli's death.