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Professor Zaki Laidi from the Center for European Studies at Sciences Po says events in Libya have modified the nature of NATO: “For the first time, and this is significant, it’s the first NATO intervention in which America didn’t play a major role."
Laidi addressed students one day after the death of dictator Moammar Gadhafi in a forum co-hosted by SIPA's Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies.
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Alumna Sharmine Narwani (MIA ’92) says “Our favorite bogeyman bar none is the ‘Iranian, Shiite, Islamist’ one, and we parade it around to great effect when we need an extra card to bulldoze through any reasoned policy challenges.”
Narwani is a Senior Associate at St. Antony's College, Oxford University, and a political analyst covering the Middle East.
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Tom Arnold, CEO of Concern Worldwide, calls the African drought and famine crisis the "worst he has ever seen.”
Arnold spoke to students in SIPA's MPA in Development Practice program. First-year student Osaretin Osarenren says he offered fresh insights into the challenges of helping people in this impoverished region.
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Every Woman Every Child: Forging Innovative Public-Private Partnerships to Achieve Strategic MDG’s: SIPA's United Nations Studies Program marks UN Day with a discussion of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's effort to improve the health of women and children around the globe. @ColumbiaSIPA will tweet live at hashtag #UNSP.
October 25, 6 p.m.
Networks of Rebellion: Explaining Insurgent Cohesion and Fragmentation in South Asia,
October 26, 12:15 p.m.
Cuba's Structural Reforms: Redefining the Future,
October 27, 4 p.m.
China’s Quest for Harmony: Balancing Regional Development, Social/Economic Policy, and Inter-Ethnic Relations,
October 28 – 30
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SIPA’s Leaders in Global Energy lecture series examined the electricity grid, power distribution, and system operation on October 17.
The discussion featured Rui Cartaxo, CEO of Portugal's Redes Energéticas Nacionais; Luis Atienza Serna, CEO of Spain's Red Electrica; and Gordon van Welie, CEO of ISO New England. The trio addressed the challenges of investment, technology, and deregulation in Europe and the U.S.
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Adjunct professor Anne Nelson presented her research on media and development at the 63rd annual World Newspaper Congress in Vienna, Austria.
Professor Nelson found economic pressures and turbulent business conditions add to the political pressure already faced by media in developing countries.
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Irene Finel-Honigman says G20 bank recapitalization is more crucial than Greek debt,
Bloomberg Radio
Stuart Gottlieb: Obama's true doctrine is to shrink America's role in the world,
Fox News
Dorian Warren: Occupy Wall Street: Message lost in the movement?
MSNBC
Lincoln Mitchell says “Occupy” looks forward, “Tea Party” backward,
U.S. News
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Arvind Panagariya: Lack of progress in India is astonishing,
Washington Post
Thomas Trebat: Alarm bells are going off on Brazilian fiscal policy,
Bloomberg
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Guillermo Calvo, director of SIPA's Program in Economic Policy Management, addressed the “socialization of private debt” at the CME Group-MSRI Prize in Innovative Quantitative Applications recognition ceremony. Watch the video
here.
Dorian Warren on Occupy Wall Street: A 21st-Century Populist Movement?
Dissent. Watch Professor Warren's comments at
Democracy Now
James Bruno (MIA ’74): The Anna Chapman Saga Continues: Not Again! More Russian Spies Arrested,
Diplo Denizen
Kimberly Smith (MIA ’12): Tea Leaves and Spices: A Profile of a New York City Restaurant Owner,
The Morningside Post, SIPA’s student-run blog
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Photo by Christopher Reeve (MIA ’12) at the Libyan embassy in Cairo, August 18, 2011. Christopher interned last summer for Al-Masry Al-Youm, Egypt’s leading independent newspaper.
“The killing of Gadhafi rids the world of a ruthless dictator, but may foretell a difficult post-conflict nation-building venture," says Christopher. "Establishing security and the rule of law are essential first steps, but will prove major challenges. There are many educated, experienced, and innovative Libyans waiting to help rebuild their country. Their support will be especially crucial in the subsequent phases of post-Gadhafi Libya.”
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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