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Lessons From Globalization for the Technological Age
The 2026 Distinguished Lecture on Globalization: Jeremy Weinstein, Dean and Don K. Price Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Globalization was a grand project of new ideas, policies, and global architecture that promised to transform the world for the better. Despite a sweeping vision of efficiency and abundance, the results have been mixed and the political backlash significant. Dean Weinstein will draw lessons from the world’s experience with globalization as we grapple with the opportunities and challenges posed by a new grand project: the rise of artificial general intelligence. As resistance to data centers and other manifestations of technological expansion grows, Dean Weinstein will reflect upon what globalization can teach us about governing in the technological age.
In person: Tseng classroom, Tuck School of Business. The event will also be livestreamed and recorded. Register here.
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Jeremy Weinstein is Dean and Don K. Price Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School. He is an award-winning researcher and teacher with expertise on civil wars and political violence; ethnic politics; the political economy of development; democracy and accountability; and migration. He is the author of Inside Rebellion: The Politics of Insurgent Violence, co-author of Coethnicity: Diversity and the Dilemmas of Collective Action, and co-editor of Crime, Insecurity, and Community Policing. For his research, Weinstein received the International Studies Association’s Karl Deutsch Award, given annually to the scholar under 40 who has made the most significant contribution to the study of international relations. In recent years, he has also written on issues at the intersection of technology and democracy, including in a co-authored book System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot.
Weinstein has held senior roles in the U.S. government at the White House and State Department, most recently as Deputy to the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations during President Obama’s second term. Weinstein holds a BA from Swarthmore College and an MA and PhD in political economy and government from Harvard University.
Organized by: The Michael G. Fisch 1983 Academic Cluster on Globalization. With support from the International Security and Economics Initiative at the Davidson Institute, Dickey Center for International Understanding; Department of Economics; Department of Government; and Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.
Events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.