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Negotiating with Terrorists (Part 2)

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Pulling out of Afghanistan was the top foreign policy event of 2021. Perhaps overlooked in the collective relief to be done with this twenty-year war is the fact that the US had to negotiate with terrorists to get there. In fact, it ceded an entire...

Negotiating with Terrorists (Part 1)

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Pulling out of Afghanistan was the top foreign policy event of 2021. Perhaps overlooked in the collective relief to be done with this twenty-year war is the fact that the US had to negotiate with terrorists to get there. In fact, it ceded an entire...

The World That Awaits the US President in 2021

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There has never been a more critical time to pull nations together. The next president must decide what kinds of partnerships the US will form with foreign leaders in an increasingly polarized world. By Michelle Nicholasen Foreign policy is a study in...

A Dissident’s View of the Arab Spring

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The Arab Spring was not an event, it was the beginning of a long and ongoing process of transformation, says Weatherhead Center Associate Hicham Alaoui. By Michelle Nicholasen Hicham Alaoui was a young prince—only seven years old—in 1971, when he...

In the Crosshairs of an Academic Crackdown

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Even when her colleagues at the American University in Cairo were getting arrested and sentenced to death, sociologist Amy Austin Holmes thought she had kept herself safely under the radar. She was wrong. By Michelle Nicholasen It was a straightforward...

When Life Is in Limbo, Education Can't Wait

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Sarah Dryden-Peterson, associate professor of education at Harvard, shares insights from her team’s work on refugee education around the world. By Michelle Nicholasen Of the sixty-five million people currently displaced worldwide, about half of them are...

Insight on Syria: What Are Putin's Motives?

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Russia’s direct entry into the Syrian conflict in September 2015 was spurred by a plethora of motivations. Russian scholars Rawi Abdelal and Alexandra Vacroux unpack the various rationales. By Rawi Abdelal and Alexandra Vacroux Fourth in a series that...