Last week, the World Bank held its annual Conference on Land and Poverty in Washington, DC, in which scholars, practitioners, donors, and researchers present their work on land issues. I attended with the organization where I currently intern, the Huairou Commission, a […]
About a month ago, both Syrian government and opposition forces agreed to help enforce a UN resolution to allow humanitarian aid to reach the Syrian population, previously unreachable because of escalating violence between the government and opposing forces. Some sources […]
The Julien J. Studley Graduate Program in International Affairs, in partnership with the Revenue Watch Institute, is hosting “Shedding Light on the Resource Curse: Pursuing Accountability for Mineral and Oil Based Corruption,” next Friday, April 4. The guest speaker is […]
On Sunday, Crimea voted to secede from Ukraine in a referendum vote that sparked mass controversy worldwide, particularly in the West. Despite denouncements from President Obama and many others that the secession is both illegal and a violation of Ukraine’s […]
Depending on where you get your news, Crimean independence from Ukraine represents either the correction of a historic mistake that “reflects the aspirations of Crimea’s residents” or the breach of international law “violating the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine.” The truth lies somewhere in between. […]
The following post is the third in our mini-series, taken from from graduate student Aaron Leaf’s microblog that documents his field research on Monrovia, Liberia’s post-conflict reconstruction efforts. Aaron was in Monrovia this January, and these posts reflect some of his […]
Malaysian Airlines Flight MH370, which departed from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, has been missing for more than a week. The story is starting to seem more like an early episode of LOST, rather than a tragically bizarre incident involving 239 people […]
The following post is the second in our mini-series, taken from from graduate student Aaron Leaf’s microblog that documents his field research on Monrovia, Liberia’s post-conflict reconstruction efforts. Aaron was in Monrovia this January, and these posts reflect some of his […]
Aaron Leaf is a graduate student at the New School working on a masters thesis about Monrovia, Liberia’s post-conflict reconstruction efforts. The project is to connect current attempts to mold the city with a history of Liberian urbanism, looking at Monrovia […]
At 9:27pm on Tuesday March 11, the home page of Russia Today, rt.com, highlighted the following stories * US to violate own laws by financially aiding Ukraine’s coup-installed govt – Moscow * CBS journalist reportedly resigns over network’s pro-Obama bias […]
Recent events in Ukraine have driven a return to a debate that has long simmered below the surface — between the U.S. and Western Europe on one side and Russia on the other. There have been many cold war analogies drawn about the Ukraine […]
