Audie Klotz is Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Inaugural Altenbernd Family Faculty Fellow (2025-2028) in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. She is also the president of the International Studies Association (2026-2027).

Klotz will discuss how and why the anti-apartheid norm has expanded after South Africa’s transition to non-racial democracy in 1994. Exploring both social movement mobilization and international law, she will argue for limits to its diffusion.