2024 URCEU Thursday Night Keynote: INTERNATIONAL LIBERAL CHALLENGES TO DEMOCRACY IN THE 21ST CENTURY

Recent years have witnessed significant concern about democratic backsliding. Resulting from the actions of duly elected governments, the incremental deteriorations of democratic institutions, rules, and norms have affected democracies around the globe, including some of the oldest in the world. Dr. Schneider will discuss the current challenges to democracy, with a focus on the international liberal foundations of democratic backsliding and its implications for the United States, the European Union, and the international liberal order.

About the Speaker: Christina Schneider is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego, and Co-Director of the Future of Democracy Initiative at the UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation. Professor Schneider is an expert in research on the domestic politics of international cooperation, studying how international cooperation affects and is affected by democratic politics and representation. She is the author of two books, including The Responsive Union: National Elections and European Governance (Cambridge University Press). The book presents a comprehensive account on when and how EU governments are democratically responsive to public opinion when they cooperate at the European level. The book was awarded the Best Book of 2019 and 2020 by the European Political Studies Association. She has published widely on these and other research subjects, including bargaining in international organizations, globalization and democratic representation, challenges to democracy and the liberal international order, and democratic backsliding.

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