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Water, Women and El Salvador: The Struggle and How to Help

May 4, 2020 by bb53 Leave a Comment

Author: Jessica Lobo, May 2020.

“Salvadorans have created a General Water Law that would include a legal provision of the Human Right to Water in their constitution. This law explicitly acknowledges the gendered aspect of water and calls for open participation (Legislative Assembly of the Republic of El Salvador). Nonetheless, there is still a long way to go for women, water, and water management in El Salvador. The law has yet to be ratified by the Salvadoran government, and therefore, issues between women and water persist despite an awareness of the issue (Gies).”

Constructing Space: A Study of Power Arrangements in Space Developments

April 20, 2020 by bb53 Leave a Comment

Author: DeLaine Mayer, April 2020.

“Space exploration and associated research initiatives do have important positive effects societally and culturally, including the development of multi-modal technologies, job creation, and nationalized or globalized realizations of human progress. However, economies of space exploration and resource utilization will replicate traditional power structures seen in historic environmental geopolitical arrangements unless those implicit in constructing New Space develop new arrangements.”

Public vs. Private: An Analysis of Women’s Workforce Participation In the United Arab Emirates

April 12, 2020 by bb53 Leave a Comment

Author: Nicole Smith, April 2020.

“The UAE government has made continued efforts to further strengthen and expand upon the opportunities afforded to women within the country’s public sector. Yet, for the government to achieve its National Agenda 2021, which aims to transition the country from a resource-based to a knowledge-based economy, a focus on the private sector and women’s participation within it is critical.”

A “Global Zero” Program: Can it Counter the Emerging Threat of Nuclear Terrorism?

April 1, 2020 by bb53 2 Comments

Author: Syeda Samrah Alam, April 2020.

“Seeking a complete elimination of nuclear weapons to address the threat of nuclear terrorism might not be possible, let alone the best option. This is because there are enormous challenges and difficulties associated with proposing and implementing the program. These challenges could make it almost impossible for Global Zero to combat nuclear terrorism.”

#CGAat15 Faculty Interview Series: Waheguru Pal S. Sidhu

March 31, 2020 by bb53 Leave a Comment

This year, The Center for Global Affairs (CGA) celebrates its 15th Anniversary. To mark this occasion, the Global Affairs Review (GAR) sat down with Professor Waheguru Pal Singh (W.P.S.) Sidhu, to discuss his CGA journey and experience. Dr. Sidhu is an associate professor at the CGA and the Director of the United Nations specialization. Concurrently, he is an associate fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy and a guest faculty at the NATO Defense College. Dr. Sidhu has more than 25 years of experience in traditional and non-traditional security issues, specifically in arms control and non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction – particularly nuclear weapons – and the role of emerging powers, especially India, in the evolving global order. His previous academic and professional positions include vice president of programs at the EastWest Institute, and director of the innovative New Issues in Security Course at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy. Dr. Sidhu has also served as a consultant to the UN and its affiliate agencies, and to other intergovernmental agencies. In addition to his pedagogic experience, he regularly organizes and conducts track-two projects with institutions in the US, Europe, China, India, and Pakistan to facilitate a dialogue among young scholars on international peace and security issues. He is the author of multiple books, chapters, and articles dealing with defense and security issues. His latest publication is Shaping the Emerging World: India and the Multilateral Order.

#CGAat15 Faculty Interview Series: Jennifer Trahan

March 10, 2020 by bb53 Leave a Comment

This year, The Center for Global Affairs (CGA) celebrates its 15th Anniversary. To mark this occasion, the Global Affairs Review (GAR) sat down with Professor Trahan, to discuss her CGA journey and experience. Professor Trahan is a Clinical Professor teaching International Law; Human Rights in Theory & Practice; International Justice; Transnational Justice; and U.S. Use of Force and the “Global War on Terror.” Professor Trahan also leads a global field intensive to The Hague, Bosnia, and Serbia, and one to Rwanda. She serves on numerous professional associations, including the Executive Board of the American Branch of the International Law Association and as its Co-Director of Studies, the Use of Force Committee of the International Law Association, and the Council of Advisers on the Application of the Rome Statute to Cyberwarfare. She has authored numerous publications, including “Genocide, War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity: A Digest of the Case Law of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda” (HRW 2010), and “Genocide, War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity: A Topical Digest of the Case Law of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia” (HRW 2006). Her latest book “Legal Limits to the Veto Power in the Face of Atrocity Crimes,” will be released in 2020 by Cambridge University Press.

#CGAat15 Faculty Interview Series: Jens Rudbeck

March 3, 2020 by bb53 Leave a Comment

This year, The Center for Global Affairs (CGA) celebrates its 15th Anniversary. To mark this occasion, GAR sat down with Professor Rudbeck to discuss his tenure at the CGA and his current position as head of the International Development and Humanitarian Assistance Concentration. Professor Rudbeck earned an MS in development studies and a PhD in political science, focusing on democratization in sub-Saharan African. His research has focused on the interaction between social movements and the state. Professor Rudbeck currently teaches classes focusing on development, humanitarian assistance, food security, and social movements.

#CGAat15 Faculty Interview Series: John Kane

February 27, 2020 by bb53 Leave a Comment

This year, The Center for Global Affairs (CGA) celebrates its 15th Anniversary. To mark this occasion, the Global Affairs Review (GAR) sat down with Professor John Kane, to discuss his CGA journey and experience. Professor Kane’s primary research interests include political psychology and behavior, and experimental research methodology. His research has been published in a variety of peer-reviewed journals, including the American Journal of Political Science, the British Journal of Political Science, Public Opinion Quarterly, Presidential Studies Quarterly, and Social Science Quarterly. He has taught undergraduate courses on human rights and global environmental politics, political ideology and foreign policy, as well as graduate courses covering research methods, statistics and data analysis.

#CGAat15 Faculty Interview Series: Mary Beth Altier

February 18, 2020 by bb53 Leave a Comment

This year, The Center for Global Affairs (CGA) celebrates its 15th Anniversary. To mark this occasion, the Global Affairs Review (GAR) sat down with Professor Mary Beth Altier, to discuss her CGA journey and experience. Professor Altier is a Clinical Associate Professor teaching courses on Transnational Security, Transnational Terrorism, Security Sector Governance and the Rule of Law, and Analytic Skills. She also leads a Consulting Practicum with the U.S. State Department’s Global Engagement Center and recently led a Global Field Intensive to Belfast and London. In 2017, she received the NYU SPS Excellence in Teaching Award. Professor Altier’s research interests are in international security, foreign policy, political violence, and political behavior. Her recent work centers on the reasons why individuals support the use of political violence in developed and developing democracies as well as why they participate in acts of political violence, especially terrorism. Her current book project examines the conditions under which citizens vote for political parties associated with armed groups in developed and developing democracies and the strategies employed by armed groups and their associated parties to maximize electoral support.

Theories of European Integration

February 13, 2020 by bb53 Leave a Comment

Author: Paul C. Saunders, February 2020.

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“…although the failure of the Euro challenges the EU’s future, there is no reason to believe that the EU, even without the United Kingdom, will disappear anytime soon. In this article, I will briefly review the history of European integration and argue that existing theories of integration, while helpful, do not fully explain the phenomenon and that new intergovernmentalism remains a work in progress.”

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Author: Paul C. Saunders, February 2020.

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“…although the failure of the Euro challenges the EU’s future, there is no reason to believe that the EU, even without the United Kingdom, will disappear anytime soon. In this article, I will briefly review the history of European integration and argue that existing theories of integration, while helpful, do not fully explain the phenomenon and that new intergovernmentalism remains a work in progress.”

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