Institute of Current World Affairs (ICWA)

Compass

A journal about global cultures and developments published by the Institute of Current World Affairs.

The Kremlin’s spiritual phishing

Andrei Kordochkin

Click on ‘traditional values’ and get kidnapping, torture, murder

In Japan, slow but steady progress

Katherine Roth Kono

Becoming the first female prime minister may be a milestone in other countries, for Japanese, her qualifications are more important.

Defending our ideals in the face of adversity

Suren Avanesyan

Democracy is about our rights.

Fellows

The latest dispatches from the institute’s fellows writing about Taiwan, Brazil and the Norwegian Arctic. Sign up for emails to follow their research.

Guns, scrubs and sunshine

Rowland Robinson

How armed factions are limiting access to health care and social services in Brazil.

Norway

Is this the model democracy?

Brett Simpson

Dueling realities of climate change and politics in Norway’s election year

Netherlands, Portugal, Brazil

A night on the streets of Cracolândia

Rowland Robinson

In São Paulo, music and art engage the marginalized.

Advancing understanding of global cultures and affairs

The Institute of Current World Affairs has sent outstanding young professionals abroad to acquire deep knowledge of international societies for 100 years. Many become leading experts on global cultures and affairs.

Learn More

ICWA@100

As ICWA marks its centenary this year, we’re looking back at the writing and lives of our fellows over the past 100 years.

Updates & Events

We need your help to support our fellows

I can’t tell you how important the experience of the fellowship was for me. Those years I spent from 1971 to 1975 really shaped my ideas about health and healing in the natural world.

DR. ANDREW WEIL, FOUNDER AND DIRECTOR OF THE ANDREW WEIL CENTER FOR INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA (ICWA FELLOW IN THE AMERICAS AND AFRICA, 1971-1975)

Support ICWA

Home

The Norwegian paradox

Compass

The Kremlin’s spiritual phishing

In Japan, slow but steady progress

Defending our ideals in the face of adversity

Fellows

Guns, scrubs and sunshine

Is this the model democracy?

A night on the streets of Cracolândia

Advancing understanding of global cultures and affairs

ICWA@100

When democracy doesn’t work

Affirmative actions

Reflections on the Vietnam War

Updates & Events

November 14
The World We Want to Live In

November 13
Edric Huang fellowship report and panel

Introducing Compass

Alumni

NPR: Tyrone Turner on the echoes of Katrina

NYT: Shannon Sims on a town in 4 countries

Washington Post: David Kenner on Israeli-Arab military cooperation

The Baffler: Pooja Bhatia on mass deportations

We need your help to support our fellows