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🗓️ Check out our events for the week of March 30, 2025 loom.ly/4S8J4P4

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The Fifth Food+ Symposium will take place on May 2nd, 2025, at HKS, bringing together researchers in the Boston area who work on food-related topics. Abstracts are due by April 4, 2025, on globalfoodplus.org. Thank you for the support by @harvardsalata.bsky.social and @weatherheadcenter.bsky.social.

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Happening today and this weekend! cmes.fas.harvard.edu/event-series...

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In many countries, when the executive branch goes head to head with the judiciary it usually unfolds over a period of time. The US case is unique, as @stevelevitsky.bsky.social and Andrew O'Donohue explain. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/w...

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In "Unsettled Families," @sbalakian.bsky.social explores how Global North governments classify most displaced families as ineligible for resettlement, questioning the concepts of "fraud" and "family." Read more at @stanfordpress.bsky.social: loom.ly/SBSDMUU

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🗓️ Check out our events for the week of March 25, 2025 loom.ly/iSNgcQk

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In their new book, Piketty and Sandel dive into urgent questions of wealth, power, and change amidst political instability and crisis. Read more at Wiley: loom.ly/MBbUvvE

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In a recent interview with CNN, Harvard Chan School’s Mary T. Bassett (@fxbharvard.bsky.social) discussed recent public health headlines, including federal funding cuts to scientific research and global aid and the potential of another infectious disease pandemic.

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New article by @evreki.bsky.social and Hatice Betül Bal uses Turkey's Ukraine policy to show middle powers adapt their behavior—alignment, autonomy, opportunism, dissonance—based on alliance cohesion and domestic interests. Read more at loom.ly/oIaYqS0

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Hello Bluesky! Founded in 1980, the Program on US-Japan Relations in @weatherheadcenter.bsky.social advances social science research & teaching on contemporary Japan & US-Japan relations at Harvard University & beyond. Please follow us here and check out our website! us-japan.wcfia.harvard.edu

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To trust each other again, we must forge connections, says Robert Putnam. “Bridging in one direction, often depends on bonding in some other dimension,” he advises. loom.ly/JiTcfsA

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🗓️ Check out our events for the week of March 16, 2025 loom.ly/ssHLTaU

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Why did the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK)—a militant group that has fought the Turkish state for decades—recently declare a cease-fire? New analysis by @evreki.bsky.social delves into the geopolitical implications: loom.ly/G8H5wKE

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In many democracies, politicians buy votes through local brokers, but how do these brokers decide whom to target? New research by @rduartegonzalez.bsky.social and colleagues uncovers the hidden role of social networks in vote buying, using data from rural Paraguay. loom.ly/zy-qZnE

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🗓️ Check out our events for the week of March 9, 2025 loom.ly/9uzhTpQ

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During Sierra Leone's civil war, 20K children were conscripted. In the new book by Theresa Betancourt, her postwar study of 500 former soldiers revealed resilience and healing despite severe trauma. Read more at @harvardpress.bsky.social: loom.ly/sobBHk4

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The new book by Jennifer L. Hochschild analyzes four American cities to identify when race and class influence politics—and explores additional forces shaping urban policy decisions. Read more at @russellsagefdn.bsky.social: loom.ly/4taSjFo

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Want to better understand the scope of migration, the needs of newly arrived families, and also the varied responses of host communities? Listen to our podcast episode from last spring, "Migrants Bring Opportunity to Boston and Beyond": epicenter.wcfia.harvard.edu/podcast/ep15...

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Save the date! On April 16 at 4:30pm, economist @kalemli-ozcan.bsky.social will deliver a public lecture on the economic impact of international tariffs and industrial policies under the Trump administration. Event details and registration here: loom.ly/LlN6U3c

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The US increasingly relies on place-based policy to help distressed regions, but many regions lack the capacity to obtain resources or implement effective policy, from Gordon H. Hanson, Dani Rodrik, and Rohan Sandhu https://www.nber.org/papers/w33511

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🗓️ Check out our events for the week of March 2, 2025. loom.ly/FL3ZNNU

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Big policy changes are needed to feed a global population projected to reach 9.7 billion people by 2050, says economist Wolfram Schlenker. Listen to PolicyCast episode with Schlenker to learn more about the dire situation of the world's food supply. loom.ly/EMXreFc

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Although the EU doesn't have a formal goal of creating a European Total Defense Union, Katarina Engberg urges members to plan their civilian response to aggression. "Total defense" means both military and civil society must prepare to resist. loom.ly/obeBNQY

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A small ray of light: my paper with @heingoemans.bsky.social and @miweintraub83.bsky.social, “Loss Framing in Territorial Disputes,” is “just accepted” at @thejop.bsky.social! See what prospect theory can (and can’t) explain about territorial disputes: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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🗓️ Check out our events for the week of February 23, 2025 loom.ly/D58n16U

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If you missed our Weatherhead Forum on Syria Wednesday, check out the video. Thank you to our esteemed panelists for sharing their wisdom! loom.ly/vKzL5qI @leilama.bsky.social

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The 2022 flood in Nigeria was devastating—killing >600, displacing >1.4M people. New research by Daniel Agbiboa reveals the human suffering in the wake of the flood and ties it to the logic of disaster as political instrument in Nigeria. loom.ly/vRYp9Kw

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Join us TODAY 12pm for our online Forum on "Syria and Shifting Power Dynamics in the Middle East." Our panel includes political scientists Ibrahim Al-Assil & Marwa Daoudy; entrepreneur/analyst Qutaiba Idlbi, & PBS reporter @leilama.bsky.social. Register here: loom.ly/crwfc2s

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Join us tomorrow when I’ll be speaking at Harvard University’s @weatherheadcenter.bsky.social forum on #Syria & Middle-East power dynamics, alongside a brilliant panel: Qutaiba Idlibi, Marwa Daoudy & Ibrahim Al Assil. Starting at 12pm ET/5pm GMT, here’s the link to register: wcfia.harvard.edu/events

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Drawing on research in Brazil, Israel, and Turkey, Andrew O’Donohue outlines 3 paths the courts can take when facing a noncompliant executive: support from intrastate allies, societal mobilization, or armed forces. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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🗓️ Check out our events for the week of February 16, 2025 including our Weatherhead Forum, "Syria and Shifting Power Dynamics in the Middle East" loom.ly/ufSYVgc

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Join us 2/19 for our online Forum on "Syria and Shifting Power Dynamics in the Middle East." Our panel includes political scientists Ibrahim Al-Assil & Marwa Daoudy; entrepreneur/analyst Qutaiba Idlibi, & PBS reporter Leila Molana-Allen. Register here: loom.ly/aE738YQ

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Our latest Epicenter newsletter highlights our post on the the rivalry between Saudi Arabia and the UAE as well as our recent podcast episode on exploring commodity frontiers. We also include recent publications of our affiliates. Check it out! loom.ly/ZCa2Pc4

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NEW on Epicenter: Lauren Morganbesser unpacks the foreign policy drift between Saudi Arabia and UAE. Once solid allies in the Gulf, their foreign policy divergence has complicated regional civil wars. loom.ly/EKjPzvo

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Our Manshel Lecture last week was terrific! Thank you to Ben Rhodes for sharing a realistic assessment of what's to come, and leaving us with much to think about. Gratitude to all the people who braved the ice and were an engaged audience—you helped make this event so successful!

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Thank you @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social & @chenoweth.bsky.social for this both insightful and inspiring interview on democratic resistance. 🙏 I needed that.

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🗓️ Check out our events for the week of February 9, 2025 loom.ly/GvgEAo4

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Check out the interview in the Harvard Gazette this morning with Ben Rhodes, on hot spots in the Middle East, Asia, and Eastern Europe. A taste of what's to come with Rhodes's lecture this afternoon! news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

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Join us TODAY in Tsai Auditorium at 4:30pm for our Manshel Lecture featuring Ben Rhodes—a writer, podcast host, and political commentator who was a deputy national security advisor under Obama. He'll talk about American foreign policy in the Trump era. Register here: loom.ly/HrGT7Ts

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Today we remember the wise words of the Aga Khan: “A pluralistic, cosmopolitan society is a society which not only accepts difference, but actively seeks to understand it—and to learn from it. In this perspective, diversity is not a burden to be endured, but an opportunity to be welcomed.”

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Register for our first spring online Weatherhead Forum, "Syria and Shifting Power Dynamics in the Middle East," on February 19 at 12pm, with panelists Ibrahim Al-Assil, Qutaiba Idlibi, and @leilama.bsky.social. Details and registration: loom.ly/U76wTaE

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Harvard undergraduates! Traveling abroad this summer to conduct research in international affairs? Learn more about our summer travel grants and Undergraduate Associates Program. Applications due February 14, 2025. loom.ly/GQn1Tfo

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This is a smart and clear-headed take on what it means for the US to be sliding into autocracy. Lots of excellent examples from Hungary, Russia, and Venezuela help paint a comparative picture.

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🗓️ Check out our events for the week of February 2, 2025—including our Manshel Lecture with Ben Rhodes, American Foreign Policy in the Trump Era. loom.ly/2xmdre0 📷 Credit: @bethany_photographs

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Excited to announce that our paper, “The Global Distribution of Authorship in Economics Journals”, co-authored with @jacobgreenspon.bsky.social @drodrik.bsky.social, is now published in World Development! 🌍📚 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Here’s a quick summary 🧵

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Trump/MAGA want you to think they’re unstoppable. They’re not. Making wild promises and destroying things is easy; delivering real benefits to real people (as opposed to payoffs to himself or to cronies) is hard. Latest FP column here: foreignpolicy.com/2025/01/27/t...

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Join us next week for a not-to-be-missed event! Political commentator and former Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes will give the Manshel Lecture on "American Foreign Policy in the Trump Era" on Thursday 2/6 at 4:30pm. Details and registration at: loom.ly/VBauopk

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🗓️ Check out our events for the week of January 26, 2025 loom.ly/Yu98ZsI

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