Time: 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM              Location: 104 Rockefeller Hall

Chair: Harvey Strum, Full Professor, Russell Sage College, strumh2hotmail.com

Discussant: Scott Monje, Independent Scholar, smonje@optonline.net

Papers:

US supported Radio Free Europe's Bulgarian Broadcasting around the    Collapse of Communism and the End of the Cold War

Kristian Kafozoff, Adjunct Professor at Union County College NJ & Doctoral Candidate at St John’s University NY, k.kafozov@gmail.com

NGO influence  on the World Bank

Chibuzo Achinivu, Visiting Assistant Professor, Vassar College, cachinivu@vassar.edu

Silencing Dissent: Russia's Violation of Freedom of Expression

Zenun Hoti, MPA, Binghamton University, hoti.zenun@gmail.com

Eschewing America’s Hegemony; Great Powers, Spheres of Influence, the 2nd Trump Administration and the Illiberal Path to a Century of Autocracy

Brian Ford, Independent Scholar, NYC DOE / Retired, bpford1@gmail.com