Bologna Institute For Policy Research

Jason Mazzone, Lynn H. Murray Faculty Scholar in Law, College of Law, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, U.S., spoke on "Obamacare: Law, Politics, Religion, and Culture" as part of the Law Series

Alain Dieckhoff, Senior Researcher, Center for International Studies and Research (CNRS/CERI), and Head of the Political Science Department, Sciences Po, Paris, France, spoke on "Religious Parties in Israel: God's Voice or Men's Interests?" as part of the God, Power, and Politics: Religious Parties in the Middle East and North Africa Series

Julia Buxton, Professor of Comparative Politics, School of Public Policy, Central European University, Budapest; Senior Researcher, Global Drug Policy Observatory, University of Swansea, Wales, U.K., spoke on "Latin America's Drug Policy Reforms: Between Drug Wars and Drug Harm Reduction" as part of the Latin American Policy Lessons: Perspectives for Europe Series

Helen Parr, Senior Lecturer in International Relations, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Keele University, U.K., spoke on "Power, Policy and Domestic Politics: Britain and the Falklands War 1982" as part of the Post-1945 International History Series

Michel Rosenfeld, Justice Sydney L. Robins Professor of Human Rights and Director, Program on Global and Comparative Constitutional Theory, Cardozo School of Law, New York, U.S., spoke on "Marriage, Gay Rights and Equal Citizenship: Prospects and Paradoxes" as part of the Law Series

Justin Tyson, Senior Economist, European Department, International Monetary Fund, U.K., spoke on "Dealing with High Debt in an Era of Low Growth"

Kjetil Storesletten, Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, University of Oslo; Editor, The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Norway, spoke on "Growing like China" as part of the Economics Series

Michael Willis, Director of the Middle East Centre, St. Antony's College and King Mohamed VI Fellow in Moroccan and Mediterranean Studies, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford, U.K., spoke on "Tunisia: the Last Hope for the Arab Spring?" as part of the God, Power, and Politics: Religious Parties in the Middle East and North Africa Series

Campbell Craig, Professor in International Politics, Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University, U.K., spoke on "Free Security and America's Cold War" as part of the America Foreign Policy Series

Daniela Schwarzer, Head of the EU Integration Research Division, German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), Berlin, Germany, spoke on "The Crisis in the Euro Area: The Challenges of Integration and Disintegration" as part of the European and Eurasian Studies Series

Anthony W. Pereira, Professor and Director, Brazil Institute, King's College, London. U.K., spoke on "Transitional Justice in Brazil" as part of the Latin American Policy Lessons: Perspectives for Europe Series

Petra Geraats, University Lecturer, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge, U.K., spoke on "Monetary Policy Transparency" as part of the Economics Series

Katerina Dalacoura, Associate Professor, Department of International Relations, The London School of Economics and Political Science, U.K., The London School of Economics and Political Science, U.K., spoke on "The Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt: Secularism, Democracy and Neo-Liberalism" as part of the God, Power, and Politics: Religious Parties

John Lloyd, Director of Journalism, Reuters Institute at the University of Oxford, U.K.; Contributing Editor, Financial Times; Columnist, Reuters.com and la Repubblica, spoke on "Journalism in the World: A Very Short Survey of the State of the News Business Worldwide" as part of the International Journalism Series

Carlos Seré, Associate Vice-President, Strategy and Knowledge Management Department, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Rome, Italy, spoke on "Agricultural Small-holders in the Post 2015 World: Valuable Asset or Social Liability" as part of the Changing Landscapes of Development Cooperation Series

Ian Clark, E. H. Carr Professor of International Politics, Aberystwyth University, U.K., spoke on "The Vulnerable in International Society" as part of the International Relations Series

Matteo Renzi, Mayor of Florence, Italy, spoke at SAIS Europes' "Closing Ceremony and Graduation"

Janne Elisabeth Nijman, Associate Professor of Public International Law, Amsterdam Center for International Law, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, spoke on "Non-state Actors in International Relations and International Law" as part of the International Relations: Not Only Realism Series

Stefaan Walgrave, Professor of Political Science, University of Antwerp, Belgium, spoke on "Populist Party Communication and Mass Media Coverage" as part of the Political Narratives of Populism Series

Igor Livshits, Associate Professor of Economics, Department of Economics; Academic Director, Belarusian Economic Research and Outreach Center, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada, spoke on "Sovereign Default and Banking" as part of the Economics Series