Wednesday, November 18, 2026 · 12:00 PM
Building E40, 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge, MA
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Professor Risa Brooks from Marquette University joins the MIT Security Studies Program for a Wednesday Seminar to explore how political leaders reshape professional militaries into partisan forces within weakening democracies. Drawing on theories of norm change, she presents a framework of "norm replacement" that uses examples from the United States and other nations to illustrate this critical shift.