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Emory Emeritus College Lunch Colloquium with Dan Reiter
Tuesday, October 27, 2026, 11:30 AM – 1 PM EDT
The Luce Center 825 Houston Mill Road -- Room 130 Atlanta, GA 30329 In-Person Registration Zoom Registration
Dan Reiter – Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Political Science *“Democracy, Peace, and War in the 21*st Century" The Cold War ended in 1989 with a great hope that humanity would turn to democracy, and enter a heaven city of freedom, prosperity, and most importantly peace. There was also hope not only that democracies were more peaceful, but that when they did fight wars, they were more likely to win, as seemingly evidenced by a number of 1990s conflicts. The first quarter of the new century provides an opportunity to evaluate these claims. Is democracy still a reliable recipe for peace? Are democracies still more likely to win the wars they wage? Has the institution of democracy or the practice of war evolved in the past 25 years such that we should reconsider these hopes? The Ukraine, Gaza, and Iran Wars in particular shed new light on these questions.