Andrew Moravcsik, Director of the Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination (LISD) and Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University, spent the spring 2024 at Columbia University after being a Berlin Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin in fall 2023. The Berlin Prize is awarded annually to U.S.-based scholars, writers, composers, and artists who represent the highest standards of excellence in their fields, from the humanities and social sciences to journalism, public policy, fiction, the visual arts, and music composition. Within the scope of his project “More Bark than Bite”, Professor Moravcsik investigated the impact of extreme-right populist parties on the foreign policies of advanced democracies.

LISD extends its gratitude to Sophie Meunier, Senior Research Scholar at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, Director of the Program in Contemporary European Politics and Society (EPS) and Co-Director of the European Union Program, who served as LISD’s Acting Director during the 2023–2024 academic year.

Together with Executive Director Nadia Crisan, Dr. Meunier brought new initiatives on geopolitical and geoeconomic competition, multidisciplinary research collaborations and policy projects, and further expanded LISD’s convening power making it a hub for high-quality international affairs programming at Princeton’s School of Public and International Affairs (Princeton SPIA). In addition, they co-lead experiential learning visits to Paris, Berlin, Northern California and Washington and fostered collaboration across campus. Our students, faculty and staff are grateful for her exceptional leadership and look forward to our future collaboration.