We'll now move to the second panel. We have two guests again. The first is Professor Daniel Ziblatt, who holds the Eaton Chair of the Science of Government. He is also acting director of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University. His research focuses on democratization, democratic collapse, political parties, state-building and historical political economy, with an emphasis on Europe from the 19th century to the present. He is the co-author of the book How Democracies Die, to which a number of people referred during this study. Mr. Ziblatt appears by videoconference from Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Welcome to the committee, Mr. Ziblatt. I hope I'm saying your name correctly.
Our second guest, who is here with us, is Michael Williams, Professor of International Politics at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa. Mr. Williams is also a senior researcher with the Global Right project, seeking to better understand the international foreign policy agenda of radical conservatism and its potential impact on the world order. In 2011, Mr. Williams co-authored the book Security Beyond the State: Private Security in International Politics.
We'll start with Mr. Ziblatt from Cambridge, for ten minutes.