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Nicholas Schmidle’s Breakdown of Flynn and Turkey is Necessary Reading This week’s New Yorker features former ICWA fellow Nicholas Schmidle explaining Michael Flynn and Turkey’s complicated relationship – we say it’s required reading in a time of alternative facts. ...
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Europe’s Year of Elections: Is There a Trump Effect? March 7, 2017 In early March, ICWA hosted a talk on ‘Europe’s Year of Elections: Is There a Trump Effect?’ Our expert speakers on Germany, France, and Holland were exceptionally well-informed about these three incredibly high stakes elections. Here is a description provided by the JHU SAIS video of the event: “After an earthquake of an...
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Warren Unna, devoted ICWA Fellow and Trustee, 1923 – 2017 Past Fellow and Trustee Warren Unna – a devoted friend of the Institute, its staff and members – died on February 9th at age 93. Warren was an ICWA Fellow from 1958-59 and had two stints as an ICWA Trustee from 1981-87 and from 1990-96. He served as Board Chair over the period, 1983-85. Throughout...
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Ivory Coast president says deal reached to end army mutiny Past Fellow Robbie Corey-Boulet and Alexis Adele report for WCVB5 ABC on the deal reached by Ivory Coast President Alassane Quattara to end a two-day army mutiny, that renewed security concerns in the world’s top cocoa producer and Africa’s fastest-growing economy....
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ICWA Trustee Mike Lampton Interviewed on Trump’s Taiwan Phone Call ICWA Trustee Mike Lampton, among the world’s eminent China scholars, appeared December 6th on PRI’s ‘On Point’ to discuss ‘US-China Relations on Edge with President-elect Trump.’ The show, widely broadcast on NPR, featured Mike’s expert assessment of the impact of Trump’s phone call with the President of Taiwan. http://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2016/12/06/us-china-relations-trump...
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How Europe Sees the US Presidential Election ICWA EVENT Event: ‘How Europe Sees the US Presidential Election’ Venue: The Embassy of Croatia; Washington, DC Date/time: October 24, 2016, noon to 2PM Participants: Professor Federiga Bindi, University of Rome (Italy) Martina Buttler, Foreign Correspondent, ARD German Radio (Germany) David Cadier, TAPIR Fellow, SAIS Center for Transatlantic Relations (France) Amb. William Eacho, ret. Ambassador to...
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ICWA Annual Newsmaker Dinner Event REGISTER NOW – LIMITED CAPACITY!! ‘Iran, Oman, and the US’ with 3 world class experts Friday, December 2, 2016 when: 5:00pm – 9:00pm where: The Cosmos Club, 2121 Massachusetts Avenue NW; Washington, DC ICWA Fellowship Report Scott Erich on ‘The Most Overlooked, Critical Country in the Middle East – Oman’ Oman played a key role...
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How Europe Sees the Presidential Election In addition to Al-Jazeera and other media, Transatlantic Magazine covered ICWA’s 24 October event on ‘How Europe Sees the US Presidential Election.’ This well-attended event included panelist and Trustee Tod Sedgwick and past fellow and past Chair, Joe Battat. Transatlantic Magazine Editor Robert Guttman writes that “The conference, hosted by my former colleagues, the Johns...
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China’s Role in the Middle East December 2, 2016 - Washington, D.C. | In Partnership with Johns Hopkins - SAIS Join us for a discussion on China and how its policies and foreign investments are shaping the geopolitics of the Middle East....
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Introducing the 2016 ICWA Fellow Institute of Current World Affairs awards 2016 Fellowship to Onyinye Edeh for work on Girls’ Empowerment in Nigeria Washington – The Institute of Current World Affairs proudly announces the winner of the 2016 ICWA Fellowship, Onyinye Edeh of Stone Mountain, Georgia. Ms. Edeh’s two-year ICWA Fellowship will be in Nigeria and Niger where she will focus on...