On November 20, 2025, Perry World House, with the support of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, held a workshop that convened leading democracy scholars and researchers to identify the key elements of a “democratic playbook.” How do resilient democracies push back against authoritarian and non-democratic populist movements? Democratic backsliding in the 21st century is…
Penn Today spoke with experts from Penn Global and Perry World House to get a sense of what’s happening in the region and what may be next. The Middle East is in a state of war, with airstrikes and counterstrikes targeting sites in Iran and among U.S. allies in the Persian Gulf region. Yet questions…
On February 12, 2026, Bangladeshis went to the polls in the first general election since the July 2024 uprising that overthrew Sheikh Hasina. Perry World House Postdoctoral Fellow Muhib Rahman answered questions about the election’s outcomes and what opportunities and challenges now face the new government. Perry World House: When a student-led movement forced Sheikh Hasina’s resignation in…
Perry World House returned to the Munich Security Conference by hosting its second side event on February 13, 2026. After hosting its first side event in 2025, PWH built on its previous success by convening over 20 leading foreign affairs and national security practitioners and academics. At PWH’s side event, World House Faculty Director and…
On February 8, Japanese voters will head to the polls for their third national election in fifteen months. This is unusual even by Japanese standards, where national elections are held more frequently than in other democracies. In addition, Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae, the first female prime minister in the entire history of Japanese modern politics,…
On January 20 and 21, 2026 Perry World House hosted a conference, bringing together scholars and practitioners to discuss the future of global development assistance. Given the shuttering of USAID and the decline of official development assistance, we convened experts to reflect on the successes and challenges of nearly a century of Official Development Assistance.…
Following the U.S. strikes in Caracas and subsequent capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, PWH hosted a virtual event with a panel of our experts to discuss the many questions that remain. PWH Thakore Visiting Fellow Carolina Jiménez Sandoval, PWH Distinguished Visiting Fellow Samantha Vinograd, PWH Non-Resident Senior Advisor Robert M. Scher analyzed what governance in Venezuela will look…
At 12:00 p.m. local time—or 5:00 a.m. ET—a U.S.-drafted ceasefire agreement went into effect between Israel and Hamas. The agreement is intended to stop the ongoing bloodshed in Gaza and give Israel and Hamas the space to try to arrive at a peace agreement that would permanently end the more than two-years-long war. It would…
On October 6-7, Perry World House hosted its annual security conference. This year’s topic, The Future of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Governance and International Politics, brought together world-leading experts and thinkers to discuss the impact of AI on US-China competition, the use of AI in the military domain, how advances in frontier AI towards artificial general intelligence…
Each year, around a quarter of Penn’s junior class chooses to depart Philadelphia — and the United States entirely — to participate in one of the University’s study abroad programs. Penn offers 95 approved study abroad programs, and various other programs for which students may petition for approval from Penn Abroad. The Daily Pennsylvanian examined…
