Institute Staff

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

Posts and Dispatches from Institute Staff:

• UPCOMING:
  Karina Piser in New York
  Please join us in New York to hear returning ICWA fellow Karina Piser talk about identity politics in France, at the Microsoft flagship store from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Friday, November 8. Karina’s fellowship has explored government initiatives to promote French secularism and social cohesion in the aftermath of the 2015 and 2016 terrorist...

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• THE CABLE PODCAST: Poland and Hungary go to the polls
  A discussion with Susan Corke, Melissa Hooper and Dalibor Rohac. ...

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• The American Prospect: Jonathan Guyer on the Arab press
  An assault on press freedoms has gone on virtually unmentioned....

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• NYT: Shannon Sims on Cuban music
  Leaving Havana behind, Sims catches the island's beat....

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• The Atlantic: Emily Schultheis on Austria’s unsinkable FPÖ
  Scandals have certainly weakened the FPÖ, but it's not going away....

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• BOOK TALK:
  1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia
  Author Josef Pazderka joined ICWA executive director Gregory Feifer in Washington on Oct. 3 to discuss the seminal Cold War event....

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• WPR: Karina Piser on femicide in France
  A wave of murders is focusing attention on domestic violence....

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• THE CABLE PODCAST: What makes Putin run?
  A conversation with Ekaterina Egorova....

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• The Federalist Society podcast: Paul Rahe on the US role in global security
  A discussion of Robert Kagan's new book questions whether American influence will still weight the scales in international power struggles....

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• AFP: Robbie Corey-Boulet on Ethiopia’s pimped-out VW Beetles
  The new generation is embracing the long-ubiquitous bug, with some choice modifications....

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