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Professor Marina Henke and Dean Adrian Randolph discuss the future of NATO, the impact of Brexit, and Great Power politics.
Watch the conversation below:
Get to know Marina Henke
Marina Henke is an associate professor of political science at Northwestern University. She is currently on sabbatical, serving as professor of international relations at the Hertie School in Berlin and the director of the Hertie Centre for International Security. Henke’s academic expertise is in military interventions, peacekeeping, and European security and defense policy. She is the author of Constructing Allied Cooperation: Diplomacy, Payments, and Power in Multilateral Coalitions, which won the 2020 Lepgold Book Prize for the best book in international relations and the American Political Science Association’s 2020 International Collaboration Section Best Book Award. Prior to joining Northwestern, Henke was a Jennings Randolph Peace Scholar with the United States Institute of Peace. She also served as the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Public and International Affairs and worked with the US House of Representatives’ Ways and Means Committee, European Commission, European Parliament, and German Foreign Office.
Meet Dean Adrian Randolph
Adrian Randolph is dean of the Judd A. and Marjorie Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences and Henry Wade Rogers Professor of the Humanities. Dean Randolph’s research focuses on the art and architecture of the medieval Renaissance Italy. He joined Northwestern in 2015 from Dartmouth College. There, he served as the associate dean of the faculty for the Arts and Humanities, chair of the Department of Art History, and director of the college’s Leslie Center for the Humanities.