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Nina Khrushcheva: “Here’s What Happened When I Held Up a ‘Putin is a Dick’ Sign in Red Square”
Associate Dean Nina Khrushcheva made waves in the Russian media last week, after Quartz published her piece on the bold social experiment she recently conducted at the Kremlin. As part of her continuous research/social experiments on Dicktators and autocrats, Khrushcheva aimed to challenge the fear and apprehension that keeps so ...
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Milano Launches New Course and Event Series: Politics and Policy
The Politics and Policy series is a thought-provoking, stimulating series of courses and events. The series will combine in-class lectures and assignments with the hands-on experience and intellects of both American and Global politics experts in order to dissect the 2016 U.S. Presidential Elections, while also providing an international perspective. From ...
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Jeff Smith Discusses His New Book “Mr. Smith Goes to Prison”and Prison Reform on the Allman Report
Assistant ‘Politics and Advocacy’ professor, former Missouri state senator and author of the new book Mr. Smith Goes to Prison Jeff Smith discussed prison reform and his own personal experience in the prison system on the Allman Report:“I chronicled [the] tremendous waste of human potential that is our prison system and ...
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Nina Khrushcheva on Anti-American Terrorism: Containment Begins at Home
Associate Dean Nina Khrushcheva’s piece on Project Syndicate, “Containment Begins at Home,” tackles the issue of homegrown, anti-American terrorism- an issue often eclipsed by concern over “the external scourge of Islamic terrorism.” Khrushcheva examines the different social, political and ideological factors that may contribute to feelings of hatred and frustration ...
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Chris London and Milano IFP Students Assist with Housing Solutions in Pácora, Colombia
Milano faculty Christopher London and his International Field Program students spent the summer studying the complex makeup of free housing establishments in Pácora, Colombia.The students were studying and learning about victims of conflict and displacement in Pácora, when they came across the housing plan that provided free housing to over 100,000 people. They learned, ...
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The Journal of Urban Affairs Reviews Milano Faculty Jeff Smith’s Kindle Single “Ferguson in Black and White”
The Journal of Urban Affairs has recently reviewed Milano assistant professor Jeff Smith’s Kindle Single, “Ferguson in Black and White.” In this piece, Smith, a former St. Louis City representative in the Missouri State Senate, examines the historical, political, economic and social context surrounding the unrest experienced in (and subsequent ...
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GPIA Professor Sakiko Fukuda-Parr Studies in Japan as a JICA-RI Distinguished Fellow
GPIA Professor Sakiko Fukuda-Parr is studying development assistance in Tokyo this summer as a Japan International Cooperation Agency Research Institute (JICA-RI) Distinguished Fellow. "In her research project, she aims to show that the view of development assistance as cooperative and reciprocal is more effective and beneficial than the view that ...
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Faculty spotlight: Professor McCandless publishes chapter on “Capacity Development and Resilience”
GPIA Professor Dr. McCandless has a new publication out, co-authored with Frauke de Weijer, that examines key lessons from the last two decades of research and practice on capacity development and applies them to the emerging resilience agenda. Resilience is associated with the capacity of individuals, groups and society as a ...
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