The New Context

The Student Journal of International Affairs at The New School

Month: October 2014

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My lovely and uneventful week in Jerusalem

As a journalist and student of international affairs, I find it’s hard to write about Israel-Palestine without writing about the plight of the Palestinians. As a tourist visiting my wife’s family in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, I did not experience […]

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Leveraging Open Data to Fight Ebola

As Ebola continues to ravage several W. African nations, here in the U.S., the discourse surrounding the outbreak remains polluted by rhetoric and misinformation. We watch and listen, uneasily at times, as experts and pundits weigh in on the implications […]

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Annan: “It’s Your Future” (But it’s Bleak)

Speaking Thursday evening before a full auditorium at Baruch college, former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan painted a dismal picture of the future of international cooperation. “Instead of the new world order, we have growing disorder,” said Annan. “The international architecture set up after […]

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Ebola Fever

This past August, Sabastina Onwubgeuzie decided to take a trip to Trinidad. Summer was coming to a close, and what better a way to commemorate that than by spending three weeks in the Caribbean with his wife? The couple packed […]