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Hypocrisy Costs in International Politics

by Reimagining World Order

Lecture Global/Intercultural

Tue, Nov 12, 2024

4:30 PM – 6 PM EST (GMT-5)

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Louis A. Simpson International Building, Room A71

Princeton, NJ 08544,

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Does hypocrisy carry costs in international politics? This talk explores why states perceived as hypocritical sometimes face backlash from third parties. Drawing on historical case studies and survey experiments, it examines how hypocrisy disrupts international cooperation by eroding trust or fueling moral outrage. Through discussions of U.S. human rights policies, China’s maritime claims, and Global South positions on the Israel-Palestine conflict, the talk reveals how perceived hypocrisy shapes international relations and why some states suffer more than others. It also offers insights into how political leaders can mitigate the damage hypocrisy causes to the international order.

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Louis A. Simpson International Building, Room A71

Princeton, NJ 08544,

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Matias Spektor

Professor of Politics and International Relations

FGV, Brazil

I am professor of Politics and International Relations at the School of International Relations at FGV. I conduct both academic research and practical work on international security, climate politics, political violence, and the history and theory of international order, with a focus on Brazil, Latin America, and the Global South. In my engagement work, I collaborate widely with governments, international organizations, and think-tanks to advance solutions based on applied social science. I am affiliated with the Reimagining World Order program at Princeton University, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the Brazilian Center for International Relations (Cebri), and the Inter-American Dialogue in Washington DC.


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John Ikenberry

Director

Reimaging World Order

G. John Ikenberry is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University in the Department of Politics and the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs.  He is also Co-Director of Princeton’s Center for International Security Studies. Ikenberry is also a Global Eminence Scholar at Kyung Hee University in Seoul, Korea. In 2018-19, Ikenberry was a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford University. In 2013-2014 Ikenberry was the 72nd Eastman Visiting Professor at Balliol College, Oxford. Ikenberry is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In a recent survey of international relations scholars, Ikenberry was ranked in the top 10 in scholars who have produced the best work in the field of IR in the past 20 years, and ranked in the top 8 in scholars who have produced the most interesting work in the past 5 years.



Professor Ikenberry is the author of eight books, mostly recently A World Safe for Democracy: Liberal Internationalism and the Crises of Global Order (Yale 2020), and  Liberal Leviathan: The Origins, Crisis, and Transformation of the American System (Princeton, 2011). His book, After Victory: Institutions, Strategic Restraint, and the Rebuilding of Order after Major Wars (Princeton, 2001), won the 2002 Schroeder-Jervis Award presented by the American Political Science Association for the best book in international history and politics. A collection of his essays, entitled Liberal Order and Imperial Ambition: American Power and International Order (Policy) appeared in 2006. Ikenberry is also co-author of Crisis of American Foreign Policy: Wilsonianism in the 21st Century (Princeton 2009), which explores the Wilsonian legacy in contemporary American foreign policy. Ikenberry has also the editor or co-editor of fourteen books, including America Unrivaled: The Future of the Balance of Power (Cornell, 2002), The End of the West? Crisis and Change in Atlantic Order (Cornell 2008) and Unipolarity and International Relations Theory (Cambridge, 2011).  Ikenberry has authored 130 journal articles, essays, and book chapters.



Professor Ikenberry is the co-director of the Princeton Project on National Security, and he is the co-author, along with Anne-Marie Slaughter, of the final report, Forging a World of Liberty Under Law.  Among his many activities, Professor Ikenberry served as a member of the Policy Planning Staff in 1991-92, as a member of an advisory group at the State Department in 2003-04, and as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations Task Force on U.S.-European relations, the so-called Kissinger-Summers commission. He is also a reviewer of books on political and legal affairs for Foreign Affairs.

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