Past Fellows

Israel Plays its Trump Card

  • January 23, 2017
  • Neri Zilber

FOREIGN POLICY (Jan 20, 2017) –Past Fellow Neri Zilber explains how the Israeli government is anticipating the Trump Presidency.

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The Young Trump

  • January 10, 2017
  • Andrew Rice

Read Past Fellow Andrew Rice’s excellent article in New York Magazine on Jared Kushner’s rise to unimaginable power.

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“ISIS” Attack in Jerusalem Uses a Truck, the New/Old Weapon of Choice

  • January 9, 2017
  • Neri Zilber

Aside from the tragic loss of life, there are perhaps larger security and political implications to this latest event in Jersalem. Read Past Fellow Neri Zilber‘s  latest dispatch in the Daily Beast. 

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Ivory Coast president says deal reached to end army mutiny

  • January 7, 2017
  • ICWA

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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Can Technology Make Football Safer?

  • January 6, 2017
  • Nicholas Schmidle

In this latest article for the New Yorker, Nicholas Schmidle writes about head injuries in Football and the use of robots and helmet technology to prevent it.

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Neri Zilber: will scandal bring down Netanyahu?

  • January 5, 2017
  • Neri Zilber

Police Grill Benjamin Netanyahu on Corruption Charges THE DAILY BEAST, Jan. 2, 2017 – Past Fellow and Trustee Neri Zilber explains the seriousness of the investigations facing Israel’s formidable Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Will scandal bring down the combative yet durable Netanyahu?

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Ted Wolfers’ groundbreaking book on race relations in Papua New Guinea republished

  • January 5, 2017
  • Edward P. Wolfers

Distinguished academic Ted Wolfers’ groundbreaking book, Race Relations and Colonial Rule in Papua New Guinea, has just been republished, forty years after the first edition appeared.  Based on a Newsletter that Dr. Wolfers wrote in the then Territory of Papua and New Guinea while an ICWA Fellow from 1967-71, the book is testimony to the

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Trading Green for Green: The Truth About Costa Rica’s ‘Eco’ism

  • December 28, 2016
  • Jessica Reilly

With a wild screech, a monkey springs from the trees and grabs our backpack. The pack sits unattended on a bench, but within a few feet of my hand. The monkey knows to grab the straps. But it miscalculates the weight of the pack and cannot leap back into the trees from the bench. My

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A Coast with No Water

  • December 19, 2016
  • Jessica Reilly

All I can see are breaking waves. I stand up on the lazarette and lean onto the dodger to steady the binoculars. There is supposed to be a channel clearly marked with lighted buoys, our first entrance to Nicaragua. We left Honduras early and had a favorable current pushing us south from the Gulf of

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ICWA Trustee Mike Lampton Interviewed on Trump’s Taiwan Phone Call

  • December 7, 2016
  • ICWA

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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