Global / Transnational

Research Interest

Susan Hyde

IIS Faculty Co-Director, Professor
Political Science
Center on the Politics of Development

Susan D. Hyde is the Kernan Robson Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, where she co-directs the Institute of International Studies and was Chair of the Department of Political Science (AY 2021–2024). She studies international influences on the domestic politics of sovereign states, with a focus on elections, election fraud, democratic backsliding, and democracy promotion.

With Nikolay Marinov and many students, she compiles the...

Rupture: The U.S. and the Fate of World Order - Multilateralism

April 17, 2026

April 30, 2026 | 12:30 - 2 PM | 223 Philosophy Hall

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Rupture #4: Multilateralism

How may global governance and multilateral cooperation evolve in a world without US leadership?

Thursday, April 30, 2026
223 Philosophy Hall
12 - 2:30 PM
*Lunchtime talk*

Panelists:

Philip Yun - IIS Senior Fellow and President, Commonwealth Club of California Steve Vogel - UC Berkeley Professor of Political Economy Amy Hawthorne - Expert...

Headed for a Cliff? Steering Safe Tech in an Era of Deregulation

March 14, 2026

April 8, 2026 | 12:30 - 2:00 PM | 223 Philosophy Hall

*Lunchtime talk*

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Mary Saunders in conversation with Debra Miller Glass, PhD

As artificial intelligence, biotechnology, quantum technologies, and other innovations rapidly advance, global standards - rather than binding regulations - are increasingly shaping how these tools are developed, governed, and deployed.

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Cloud Capitalism and the AI Transition

April 2, 2026
Berkeley Economy & Society Initiative
April 09, 2026| 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM|820 Social Sciences Building Cloud Capitalism and the AI Transition With Kathy Thelen, Ford Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Join MIT political scientist Kathy Thelen at BESI as she explores the origins and implications of the new cloud business model powering the AI boom. She’ll elaborate on how this model differs from the traditional platform model out of which it grew, as well as the technological, political, and distributional impacts of the rise of this new business model. She...

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Can You Say That Here? Free Speech in a Global Context

April 1, 2026
April 14, 2026 | 3:30 - 5 pm | 223 Philosophy Hall *Followed by reception* REGISTER The Berkeley Institute of International Studies and Berkeley Liberty Initiative invite you to a panel on the governance of free speech in different political, legal, and cultural contexts.

Joined by digital rights veteran Rebecca MacKinnon, First Amendment scholar and political scientist Sean Gailmard, and Mexican journalism...

The U.S. Dollar Hegemony in Transition

March 31, 2026

Wednesday, April 8 | 12:00pm | 820 Social Sciences Building

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More info: https://matrix.berkeley.edu/events/matrix-on-point-us-hegemony-in-transition/

This Matrix on Point panel will bring together scholars and industry voices to examine the foundation of U.S. monetary influence and...

Rupture: The U.S. and the Fate of World Order Speaker Series - Rupture #3: Trade

March 25, 2026

April 9, 2026 | 3:30 - 5 PM | 223 Philosophy Hall
IIS Spring 2026 Speaker Series - Rupture: The U.S. and the Fate of World Order
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Rupture #3: Trade

Is the Trump administration’s winner-take-all, “America First” embrace of economic nationalism and protectionism sustainable economically, politically and environmentally?...

Rupture: The U.S. and the Fate of World Order Speaker Series - Rupture #2: Security

February 19, 2026

March 5, 2026 | 12:30 - 2 pm (lunch talk) | 223 Philosophy Hall

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IIS Spring 2026 Speaker Series

Rupture: The U.S. and the Fate of World Order

Rupture #2: Security
What are the prospects for American security when strong alliances are shaken?

The bedrock of American foreign policy and national security -...

The UC Berkeley Global Forum: Contemporary Challenges in the Asia Pacific

May 2, 2025

May 2, 2025 | 8:00AM - 5:00PM | Banatao Auditorium

The conference aims to bring together leading scholars and practitioners together to analyze, debate, propose solutions to several contemporary challenges in the Asia-Pacific region, as well as to provide an opportunity for Berkeley students, faculty, alumni, and Bay Area international affairs professionals to engage with leading scholars, practitioners, and journalists regarding issues of contemporary importance.

https://events.berkeley.edu/ieas/event/297142-the-uc-berkeley-global-forum-conte…

Trevor Jackson

Associate Professor of History and Political Economy
History and Political Economy

Trevor Jackson is assistant professor of History and Political Economy. He studies capitalism, inequality, and financial crisis, mostly but not exclusively in early modern Europe.