A Century of Demagogues in Europe
Ivan T. Berend’s Portraits of Populists between Past and Present
7 January 2021
Published in a particularly turbulent year amid a global pandemic, renowned historian Ivan T. Berend’s latest book comes as a cautionary text reminding readers how times of crisis can act as the breeding ground for populism and the emergence of demagogic leaders seeking to take advantage of popular anxieties and discontent for their own personal or political gain.
Ivan T. Berend is a Distinguished Research Professor at the History Department of the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and an expert on nineteenth and twentieth-century Eastern and Central European History. Now ninety years of age with decades of academic experience under his belt, he is a prolific writer with twenty-plus books and over a hundred scholarly and popular essays and articles.
Howie Giles, Distinguished Research Professor of Communication, has been awarded UC Santa Barbara’s prestigious Edward A. Dickson Emeriti Professorship for 2020-21. The award provides $15,000 in funding for research-related activities.
A specialist in interpersonal and intergroup communication processes in intergenerational, police-citizen and other intergroup settings, Giles has conducted research on communications and attitudes toward law enforcement spanning more than a dozen countries, including Mongolia, Bulgaria and Russia. He is co-editor of the two-volume “The Oxford Encyclopedia of Intergroup Communication” and is the founding and current editor of the Journal of Language and Social Psychology and the Journal of Asian Pacific Communication.
With Global Challenges in Mind, Keeping a Decades-long Success Story at the Forefront
The world s success in addressing the crisis of acid rain could serve as a template for tackling similar challenges.
Vigorous and innovative communication about the problem of acid rain - including cartoons - helped create a climate where policy could be made to address the crisis, says UConn s Gene Likens (Getty Images). Copy Link
As the world watches scientist and policymakers working to manage a global crisis, looking at how a similar challenge was successfully addressed can be a source of encouragement.
This success story starts in 1963, an eventful year for the world. The United States’ involvement in the Vietnam War was growing, the civil rights movement was forging ahead, and in November, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. It was also the early days of the modern environmental movement, just one year after Rachel Carson’s pivotal “Silent Spring” was
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