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Columbia President Lee C. Bollinger has signed an agreement to open a Global Center in Santiago, Chile – the University’s first in Latin America. The center is directed by SIPA alumna Karen Poniachik (MIA ’90), who says cross-disciplinary skills are necessary.
“Academia has a lot to offer government, government to the private sector, the private sector to the government… It’s very complementary – public policy and academia.”
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In the first lecture of this fall's Leaders in Global Energy series, SIPA welcomed Edison Lobão, Brazilian Minister of Mines and Energy.
"Yes, we can alter significantly the balance between fossil fuels and alternative energy."
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The New Global Rulers: The Privatization of Regulation in the World Economy, September 29
Mexico: National Emergency, September 29
Latin America on the Move, September 29 - 30
The Phenomenon of "Solidarity:" Pictures from the History of Poland, 1980-1981, October 4
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Chitrangada Choudhury (MIA/JOUR ’12), a Fulbright-Nehru scholar, describes in Columbia Journalism Review how cell phones are giving isolated and oppressed people in India an outlet for news and information, and democratizing the media.
“The idea was to make the medium as simple as possible, so that the villagers could use it, own and define it for themselves.”
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Foreign Affairs reviewed Professor Jack Snyder’s new book, Religion and International Relations Theory.
“Snyder argues that religion can alter the basic patterns of international relations: who the actors are, what they want, what capacities they have to attract support, and what rules they follow."
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Rashid Khalidi: Palestinians need an honest broker,
USA Today; President Obama’s actions on Israel reflects political reality,
Washington Post;Time for U.S. to adapt to a new Middle East,
NPR
Michael Doyle: Israeli-Palestinian conflict “a wound that keeps getting ripped open,”
Washington Post
Gary Sick said Mahmoud Ahmadinejad comes to NYC in the weakest position ever,
Wall Street Journal
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John Mutter: Should scientists be held accountable for earthquakes?
Joseph Stiglitz: “Buffett Rule” is not class warfare,
ABC News
Graciana del Castillo, former S&P analyst, on the importance of conversations in ratings,
Bloomberg
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Andrew Richardson (MIA ’12): “Out of the Ashes of 9/11, A New FDNY Department Provides Comfort,”
The Morningside Post, SIPA’s student-run blog.
Howard Friedman: Truth in Advertising: Time for the Post Office to Come Clean,
The Huffington Post
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Sarika Bansal (MPA ’12): How private distribution companies can help reduce diarrheal disease,
Forbes
Jagdish Bhagwati: America’s Debt Challenge: How global trade can rein in health cost,
The American Interest
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Photo by Jennifer Wilmore (MIA '12) in Koidu, Sierra Leone, where diamond-buying offices line the streets.
Jennifer spent last summer interning with the civil society organization Network Movement for Justice and Development. She helped with a report on iron ore mining contracts between the government and international companies, organized a workshop with the African Development Bank, and researched child labor and land rights in the diamond-mining areas.
Read more about Jennifer's experience in Sierra Leone at her
blog or view more of her
photos.
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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