Institute Staff

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

Posts and Dispatches from Institute Staff:

• Former fellow Takashi Oka dies
  A ground-breaking journalist, Oka interpreted the Far East for Americans....

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• Slate: Gregory Feifer on Biden and Belarus
  The Biden administration can score an easy win by ending Alexander Lukashenko's illegal reign, ICWA executive director Gregory Feifer says....

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• THE CABLE PODCAST: Kleptocracy and its discontents
  A discussion with Tom Burgis, Tom Firestone and Luke Harding....

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• The American Prospect: Jonathan Guyer on H.R. McMaster
  President Trump’s former appointee has turned his time in the White House into profits....

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• Webinar video:
  Yunnan case study
  A USHCA-hosted discussion with Matthew Chitwood, Brian Linden and Daniel B. Wright....

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• Foreign Affairs: Matt Chitwood on ending poverty in China
  Beijing says it will wipe out poverty by the end of this year, but only when poverty is defined as extreme and rural....

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• Foreign Affairs: Cheng Li on China’s hopes for a thaw
  China feels cautiously optimistic President-elect Joe Biden can lower—or at least pause—fast-escalating tensions between the countries....

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• FROM THE FIELD: In El Salvador, the military is still hiding its crimes
  A report from Elizabeth Hawkins....

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• LRB: Pooja Bhatia on Black liberation
  Three books examine the enormous impact of the Haitian Revolution....

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• Newslines: Neri Zilber on Mahmoud Abbas’s possible successor
  Former top official Mohammed Dahlan's name is being floated as more flexible replacement for President Mahmoud Abbas....

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