Lauren Young
Political Scientist; Expert on Authoritarian Threats to Democracy; Author, Hitler's Girl: The British Aristocracy and the Third Reich on the Eve of WW2
Dr. Lauren Young, a Yale professor and national security expert, collaborates with Ukraine’s government to analyze current threats to liberal democracy through a historical lens. Her book, Hitler's Girl, unearths links between the English aristocracy and the Nazis, revealing how vulnerable democracy can be in every generation.
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Dr. Lauren Young combines practical policy experience in national security with a political scientist’s perspective on current threats to democracy.
Drawing on recently unclassified historical documents in the UK’s National and Royal Archives, her book Hitler’s Girl paints a chilling portrait of an England more sympathetic to Nazism than previously known.
The parallels Dr. Young draws between the rise of fascism in the 1930s and the political climate of the 2020s sound a dire warning, and enable this generation to identify and fight creeping authoritarianism in our own politics and culture. With a resurgent far right in America, authoritarian governments in Russia and a rising Far Right in Europe, and the swift and alarming rise of antisemitic sentiment across the world, her message stands as a much-needed challenge and warning to voters today.
A recipient of numerous teaching awards, Dr. Young holds degrees from Yale, King’s College, University of London, and has worked on a recent book with Ukraine’s Ministry of Social Policy.
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The Trajectory of Right-Wing Movements: Transforming the Political and Social Fabric
Drawing on a deep knowledge of political science and history as well as a background in security and defense, Dr. Young looks ahead at the trajectory of right wing movements in the US and Europe, and discusses how their current rise will change the political, social, and economic landscape of the coming decades.
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