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December 7, 2016
The recent U.S. election raises questions about broader movements that allowed Trump – as well as numerous other leaders around the world – gain popularity. Amid these...
December 2, 2016
Recent crises around the world, most notably the Syrian conflict, have brought into question the role of the international community in preventing human rights violations and...
November 10, 2016
On Tuesday, November 15, Ambassador Juan Carlos Mendoza-García, Permanent Representative of Costa Rica to the United Nations (for the Group of Latin American and Caribbean...
Ambassador Yuriy Sergeyev
October 28, 2016
The Eastern Mediterranean, the region heralded as the birthplace of civilization and culture, is now the center of destruction and displacement. To many, the conflicts...
October 13, 2016
Douglas Rogers, associate professor of anthropology, has been awarded multiple prizes from the Association for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies (ASEEES) for his...
September 26, 2016
Most people believe that the 21st century simply began at the turn of the millennium, in the year 2000. However, Krzysztof Szczerski, a secretary of state in the...
September 23, 2016
This op-ed written by Timothy Snyder, the Bird White Housum Professor of History, and a member of the European Studies Council at the MacMillan Center, appeared in The New...