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At SIPA's 12th annual Global Leadership Awards Dinner on April 26, we will honor three guardians of the public interest: former SIPA dean Lisa Anderson, philanthropist Howard G. Buffett, and former U.S. Secretary of Commerce Peter G. Peterson.
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After a year that saw the rise of the Arab Spring and the fall of several authoritarian rulers, the fall/winter 2011 issue of the student-published Journal of International Affairs examines the factors of regime durability.
Editor-in-Chief Paul Fraioli (MIA ‘12) shares insights on the selection of this topic.
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Entrepreneurs will always face challenges as they start and develop their own businesses. Immigrant entrepreneurs, navigating their new countries, surely face a whole new set of challenges. What about female and immigrant entrepreneurs? Professor Paul Thurman explores the issue in his new book.
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A. Michael Hoffman (MIA '73), co-founder and chairman of the London-based private equity partnership Palamon Capital Partners, has been elected chairman of the American Academy in Berlin.
The Academy was founded by the late diplomat Richard C. Holbrooke, who was also its longstanding chairman when not in government.
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Thanassis Cambanis: The Inevitable Rise of Egypt's Islamists,
The Atlantic
John McArthur: An interview on the Millennium Development Goals,
Africa.com
Douglas Almond: Americans from China, Korea, and India have relatively few daughters,
Forbes
Scott Barrett: A conversation on climate change and international cooperation,
The Atlantic
Helios Herrera says German Chancellor Angela Merkel should offer bailout measures for Europe,
Il Sole (Italian)
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Elizabeth Mayer (MIA '12) visited Honduras on a medical mission trip during spring break in March 2011.
"I volunteered to accompany doctors and ophthalmologists to three sites in five days, administering eye care to local impoverished Hondurans living and working in the African palm plantation. This boy, a son of one of the patients, joined other kids in peering through the windows, trying to distract us while we ate during lunch break."
This newsletter is distributed by the Office of Communications and External Relations at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. Contact Alex Burnett at 212-851-1818 or
alex.burnett@sipa.columbia.edu.
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