Institute Staff

The Institute of Current World Affairs shares past fellows’ work from the around the web.

Posts and Dispatches from Institute Staff:

• ICWA fall dinner 2024
  “Once we understand Xi Zhingping’s intentions, we can better formulate our policies. But right now we don’t know what his intentions are.” So said The New York Times diplomatic correspondent and former Beijing bureau chief Edward Wong at ICWA’s fall dinner on Nov. 8, 2024 about the Chinese leader’s plans for his country’s burgeoning military,...

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• Video: Russians in exile, Aron Ouzilevski fellowship report and panel
  Aron Ouzilevski spoke at the US Institute of Peace and joined a panel with the leading exiles Lyubov Sobol and Anna Veduta discussing what the future may hold for Russian emigres and their home country, moderated by ICWA's Gregory Feifer....

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• NYRB: Suzy Hansen on Gaza, Israel and America
  “Gaza, Israel, and the American Left: October 7 One Year Later,” a conversation with Suzy Hansen (Turkey, 2007-2009), Ben Rhodes and Pankaj Mishra, The New York Review of Books, October 15, 2024...

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• Clingendael: James Courtright on democracy in Ghana
  “Ghana: a beacon of democracy?” by James Courtright (West Africa, 2021-2023), Kars de Bruijne and Grace Ellis, Clingendael, July, 2024...

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• New York Magazine: Andrew Rice on Mayor Eric Adams Indictment
  “City haul” by Andrew Rice (Uganda, 2002-2004), New York Magazine, October 7, 2024...

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• The New Statesman: Pooja Bhatia on Trump and Haitians
  “Trump is picking on Haitians for a reason,” by Pooja Bhatia (Haiti, 2009-2011), The New Statesman, September 27, 2024...

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• POLITICO: Emily Schultheis on California’s crime plan
  “Alliance pushing California’s tough-on-crime plan is unraveling. Just weeks before election,” by Emily Schultheis (Germany, 2019-2021), POLITICO, September 26, 2024...

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• Eve Fairbanks shortlisted for Sunday Times literary award
  “Speaking the truth: life in post-apartheid SA seen through the eyes of ordinary people,” an interview with Eve Fairbanks (South Africa, 2009-2011) about her book “The Inheritors,” Sunday Times, September 22, 2024...

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• Register: Russians in exile – Aron Ouzilevski fellowship report and panel
  Please join us in Washington, DC on November 8, when returning fellow Aron Ouzilevski will deliver his fellowship report at the United States Institute of Peace about his two years writing about Russian exiles fleeing authoritarianism, militarism, mobilization and a deteriorating economy at home before and after the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Based...

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• ICWA fellow Gayl Ness dies
  The sociologist dedicated his career to global economic development....

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