Monica Toft: Spheres of Influence and the Changing Global Order

**Registration is closed and the event is sold out for in-person attendance. Please email admin@becboston.org to be added to the waitlist. 

Professor Monica Duffy Toft 

Spheres of Influence and the Changing Global Order

Academic Dean and Professor of International Politics. Her research interests include international security and strategy, ethnic and religious violence, civil wars and the relationship between demography and national security. 

ABOUT THE EVENT

This talk presents the basis of a forthcoming book that argues that today’s great power competition unfolds across three interconnected domains—politics, economics, and technology—and that prevailing across all three is essential to securing and sustaining global leadership. While geography once anchored the boundaries of influence, the 21st century’s contest is no longer tethered to territory in the same way. Ideas, innovation, and the control of critical technologies now rival physical space and terms of trade as a decisive factors shaping power. Drawing on historical precedents, contemporary case studies, and a new analytical framework— “open” and “closed” hegemony—Spheres of Power shows how states wishing to maintain their own independence or rise to a position of global leadership must adapt to this transformed landscape, balancing stability, justice, and strategic advantage in an era where the competition for influence extends far beyond borders.

**Please note that this luncheon will be held at the Union Club of Boston and not at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston due to availability. Capacity is limited to 80 at the Union Club. 

BIO