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22 results for "November 2018"

22 results for "November 2018"

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...

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...

Rare Films from Socialist Yugoslavia

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One room. One locked-down camera. One roll of film. A group of famous directors from the 1960s took the challenge: they would make a short film with these parameters plus one more—their dialogue must include the sentence “I Miss Sonia Henie.” The result...

Trump’s Impact on the World: Timothy J. Colton on Russia

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Harvard Professor of Government and Russian Studies Timothy Colton discusses the fraught relationship between the US and Russia under the Trump administration. This is the third blog post in a series of edited transcripts from a panel on Trump's...

Tracking Insecurity across Time and Space

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Annette Idler sees conflict as a dynamic and shifting phenomenon. From her extensive field work, she has given local officials and civilians tools to prepare for violence before it arrives in their villages. By Michelle Nicholasen This is the second of a...