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Making Hyderabad India’s Best-Governed City
Hyderabad, India - also known as "Cyberabad" for its booming information technology sector - has gained international recognition for its ability to attract business and investment through liberal industrial policies, special economic zones, and city branding.
SIPA’s Global Mayors Forum welcomes Sameer Sharma, IAS Commissioner of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation, on Wednesday, September 14. Sharma will address the challenges and opportunities in making Hyderabad India’s best-governed city.
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Brazil is a leader in renewable energy and a key player in energy security and climate change debates. SIPA's Leaders in Global Energy lecture series hosts Edison Lobão, Brazilian Minister of Mines and Energy, on Monday, September 26.
Leaders in Global Energy is the centerpiece of SIPA's initiative to identify solutions to the challenge of creating sustainable energy while protecting the environment.
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9/11: Ten Years Later
As Columbia University, New York City, and the nation remembered 9/11, SIPA and the Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies hosted a symposium. The panel of faculty, experts, and affiliates held a spirited discussion on the policy and research implications, and developments of the past ten years.
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SIPA Interns Around the World
It is a rite of passage for SIPA students – traveling far and wide for summer internships and returning to share their incredible experiences.
Michelle Chahine (MIA ’12), who interned with the San Francisco Chronicle, spoke with several students. One witnessed history in the making in Egypt; another rubbed shoulders with the Vice President of the United States.
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Mahmood Mamdani: What does Gaddafi's fall mean for Africa?
Al Jazeera
Jack Snyder says rushing to the polls in Libya could reignite civil war,
CNN
Richard Betts and Michael Doyle: A 9/11 book review,
Roll Call
Jagdish Bhagwati: President Obama needs to “step up” on world trade,
Reuters
Ralph da Costa Nuñez said the measurement of poverty goes beyond the appliances in the household,
Philadelphia Inquirer
Michelle Moghtader (MIA ’12): Sex Education in the Islamic Republic of Iran,
CNN
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Stuart Gottlieb weighs in on the GOP debate,
Politico
Steven Cohen says the hope of the Obama presidency has turned into hopelessness,
Huffington Post
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Sylvia Hewlett says women in the emerging markets are experiencing an amped-up version of the same job stressors as their Western counterparts,
The Woman Solution at Forbes
John Lyman, editor-in-chief of the Journal of Foreign Relations, writes “NATO: Everything to Everyone” at
The Morningside Post, SIPA’s student-run blog.
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While interning this summer at the U.S. embassy in Beijing, China, Ethan Wilkes (MIA '12) met Vice President Joseph Biden during his nine-day tour of Asia. “Rarely do you get the opportunity to be exposed to people of that level and listen to their thoughts," said Wilkes.
Read more about SIPA students' adventures around the world.
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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