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Richard Russell
Professor Russell discusses the current challenges the CIA faces with respect to the growing demand for military intelligence in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11.
Jeffrey M. Jordan
Jordan surveys the current state of affairs in the highest political circles of the Czech Republic and finds plenty of evidence that corruption continues to be rife and widespread.
Lauren Esposito
In a comparative study of Costa Rica and Zimbabwe, Esposito examines the legacy of colonialism and its impact on current environmental policy.
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Will Moore
Professor Moore deconstructs the impact of minority politics in democracies, and asks whether a country's foreign policy can ever be "captured."
Stephen M. Saideman
Professor Saideman examines the process by which minority groups take control of a particular set of issues in foreign policymaking.
Vanessa Hua
Through photography, Hua captures the complicated dynamic that the Chinese diaspora faces in Panama.
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Yossi Shain
Using the Jewish-American and Armenian-American diasporas as examples, Professor Shain argues that international conflict resolution is in fact a "three-level game" in which ethnic or religious minorities in far-off lands can play an important role.
Nedim Ögelman, Jeanette Money, and Philip Martin
Professors Ögelman, Money, and Martin compare the impact of the Turkish diaspora on German and, by extension, EU foreign policy toward Turkey with the political influence of Cuban-Americans on U.S. foreign policy toward Cuba.
Miriam Lanskoy
Wahhabism has played a role in the domestic and regional politics of Chechnya and Daghestan. In fact, Lanskoy argues that Wahhabism acted as a catalyst to irredentism and provoked Russian retaliation, which culminated into the second Russian-Chechen war.
Evelyn Hockstein
In Uzbekistan, the government is cracking down on moderate as well as extremist Muslims. Through the lens, Hockstein captures the effects of this injustice.
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Patrick Clawson, Eleanor Abdella Doumato, Gregory Gause, David Long, and Kevin Taecker
The participants engage in a dialogue on the intricacies of dynastic politics in the Arabian Peninsula and the potential impacts on U.S.-Saudi relations.
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Shlomi Dinar
Shlomi Dinar underscores the importance of international water boundaries in policymaking within the framework of international relations theory.
J.A. Allan
Professor Allan discusses the key role of the international trading system, and "virtual water" in particular, in gradually suppressing the threat of armed conflict over such a scarce resource in a parched region.
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Gawdat Bahgat
Professor Bahgat demonstrates that the slow progress between Russia, Iran, and the three former Soviet Republics bordering the Caspian Sea on settling the status of their common water boundary is driven by geopolitics, and especially by acute competition for the basin's hydrocarbon potential.
Ashok Swain
Professor Swain dwells on the latent rivalry between Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia to highlight the difficulties of achieving basinwide cooperation among all ten riparian states.
Islam M. Faisal
Professor Faisal discusses the grievances of Bangladesh and the geopolitics of water between India and its smaller neighbor.
Camille Pecastaing
For the most part, the world has rallied behind the United States since the events of September 11. Pecastaing reviews the French reaction and discovers that some were privately happy that the event took place.
Mark Kramer
Professor Kramer's review of Armageddon Averted highlights how difficult it is to achieve peaceful democratization. He credits Mikhail Gorbachev with Russia's remarkable transition.
Sanam Vakil
Vakil concludes that Bernard Lewis's book What Went Wrong provides helpful insights into current problems in the Middle East.
Rosalie Parker
Parker asserts that David Hoffman's new treatise on power sharing fails to capture the reality of everyday Russia.
Jeff Shaw
While ultimately supportive of David Halberstam's main thesis, Shaw concludes that his analysis in War in a Time of Peace leaves too many questions unanswered.
Michael Innes
Innes reviews several books on genocide that reveal the difficulty contemporary society has with accepting and assigning blame.
Christophe Leroy on Mexican intelligence, Timothy Reuter on the history of terrorism, Dune Lawrence on Kazakhstan, Stephen Lynagh on U.S.-Chile relations, Seth Seifman on The United States and Pakistan, 1947-2000: Disenchanted Allies.
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