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14 results for "February 2019"

14 results for "February 2019"

Through the Ashes of the Minsk Agreements

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Former member of the Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine, Lidia Powirska looks back at the Minsk agreements and why they failed to bring even temporary peace to the Donbas conflict.

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...

Who Deserves Independence?

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A historian spotlights the backstories of nationalist groups that were passed over during the post-World War II wave of decolonization. By Lydia Walker Twentieth-century global decolonization changed the map. In the thirty years after the Second World War...

A Global Effort Accelerates SARS-CoV-2 Vaccines

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Are you still waiting for your vaccination? WCFIA Fellow Mario Jimenez of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, reports on the multifaceted efforts to supply the world with the vaccines necessary to end the COVID-19 pandemic. By Mario Jimenez While Americans are...

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...

The US-India Relationship: A Q&A with Kenneth Juster

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The recent US Ambassador to India offers insights on trade relations between the world’s two largest democracies, the goals of the Quad, and how to counter Chinese dominance in the Indo-Pacific. By Roshni Chakraborty Weatherhead Center Advisory Committee...

Can Erdogan be Unseated?

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The presidential election in Turkey this spring is shaping up to be the most consequential in decades. Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has led the country for twenty years, is facing the staunchest opposition in his career in the form of an unprecedented...

The Deal That Keeps the Oil Flowing

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Weatherhead Fellow and former engineering economist for Saudi Aramco Jenny Spalding addresses the evolution of the US-Saudi oil-for-security bargain and its effect on global energy security.

Who Is a Citizen in Contemporary India?

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Four scholars contextualize India’s controversial citizenship amendments within the history of imperial rule, mobility, and itinerancy in South Asia. By Swati Chawla, Jessica Namakkal, Kalyani Ramnath, Lydia Walker In the second week of December 2019...