A World Divided:

The Global Struggle for Human Rights in the Age of Nation-States

A Book Talk with Eric Weitz

in Conversation with Rajan Menon

March 3, 2020, 6:30-8:00 pm

#CityCollegeDowntown

Division of Interdisciplinary Studies

25 Broadway, 7^th Floor R: Auditorium 

Eric D. Weitz is Distinguished Professor of History at City College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He is also the former Dean of Humanities and Arts at City College. Trained in modern German and European history, Weitz also works in international and global history. His most recent book, A World Divided: The Global Struggle for Human Rights in the Age of Nation-States, was published by Princeton in September 2019. Other major publications include Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy (2007); Weimar Centennial (third) edition (2018), and A Century of Genocide: Utopias of Race and Nation (2003; reprint with new foreword 2014). Weitz edits a book series for Princeton, Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity. He lectures widely in public and academic settings on the history of human rights and genocides and on Weimar Germany.

Rajan Menon is the Anne and Bernard Spitzer Chair in International Relations at the City College of New York. He was previously the Monroe J. Rathbone Distinguished Professor and Chairman of International Relations at Lehigh University. He has been a Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, the New America and an Academic Fellow and Senior Adviser at the Carnegie Corporation of NY. A 2002-03 Carnegie Scholar, he has also received fellowships and grants from the Woodrow Wilson Center, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Rockefeller Foundation, the John D and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and the US Institute of Peace. The most recent books are Conflict in Ukraine: The Unwinding of the Post-Cold War Order (MIT Press, 2015), co-authored with Eugene B. Rumer, and The Conceit of Humanitarian Intervention (Oxford University Press, 2016).