Institute Staff

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

Posts and Dispatches from Institute Staff:

• THE CABLE PODCAST: Congress and democracy at home and abroad
  A discussion with Norman Eisen, Reta Jo Lewis and David Price....

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• THE CABLE PODCAST: Crisis in Georgia
  A discussion with Tamar Chugoshvili and Ian Kelly....

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• FROM THE FIELD: Is coffee culture helping change Saudi Arabia?
  A conversation with David Kenner....

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• Newslines: Neri Zilber on Iran brinksmanship
  Israeli intelligence officials acknowledge problems with a “maximum pressure” policy on Tehran....

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• Kitty Hempstone dies
  Kathaleen "Kitty" Fishback Hempstone was a former ICWA trustee and longtime institute supporter....

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• NYT: Emily Schultheis on Germany’s defensive democracy
  The party in question, Alternative for Germany, is in a protracted dispute with German intelligence....

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• Webinar video:
  Maria Ressa and Steven Butler on press freedom
  An ICWA-Network 20/20 discussion with Maria Ressa and Steve Butler....

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• ICWA virtual gala 2021
  Please join a global celebration marking our 96th year advancing American understanding of world cultures and affairs....

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• THE CABLE PODCAST: Who’s afraid of Alexei Navalny?
  A discussion with Olga Shorina, Kiryl Sukhotski and Pavel Butorin....

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• Nicholas Schmidle to publish book on Virgin Galactic space program
  New Yorker writer Nicholas Schmidle (ICWA fellow in Pakistan, 2006-2008) tells the story of the test pilots, engineers and visionaries behind Virgin Galactic’s campaign to build a space tourism company in his soon-to-be-released book Test Gods: Virgin Galactic and the Making of a Modern Astronaut. The Washington Post describes a previously unreported account of a...

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