"Are Dictators Getting Smarter?"

PRLog (Press Release) - Oct. 23, 2012 - Will Dobson, politics & foreign affairs editor for Slate online magazine and the author of The Dictator’s Learning Curve: Inside the Global Battle for Democracy, will speak at the World Affairs Forum on November 14 at UCONN/Stamford. The program will begin at 5:45 P.M., with networking and refreshments, followed by the presentation at 6:15 P.M.

Mr. Dobson has published widely on international politics. His articles and op-eds have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, Foreign Policy, The New Republic, Newsweek, and elsewhere.  He has been a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and in 2006 was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.  Mr. Dobson holds a law degree from Harvard Law School and a Masters degree in East Asian Studies from Harvard University. He received his bachelor's degree, summa cum laude, from Middlebury College.

Refreshments and Presentation Fee: $20.  Free for Forum and Ambassadors’ Roundtable Series members, faculty and students.  For reservations, please contact the World Affairs Forum at 203-356-0340 or     E-mail: info@worldaffairsforum.org.  

The University of Connecticut Stamford Campus is located on the corner of Broad Street & Washington Blvd.  Parking is available in the UCONN Parking Garage on Washington Blvd. – 2nd floor.

The World Affairs Forum is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to expanding understanding of global affairs and America’s role in the world.