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#CGAat15 Faculty Interview Series: Michael Oppenheimer

February 11, 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 Michael Oppenheimer, to discuss his CGA journey and experience. Professor Oppenheimer is a Clinical Professor at the CGA. His courses include International Relations, US Foreign Policy, and Future International Systems. He also leads a team of students each semester in a research and consulting project for the UN Counter Terrorism Executive Directorate (CTED) on countering violent extremism. He is the originator and director of the Carnegie Corporation-funded project on alternate futures for pivotal countries, which has published China 2020, Russia 2020, Turkey 2020, Ukraine 2020, Pakistan 2020, and Syria 2018. He has authored several books, most recently Pivotal Countries, Alternate Futures, published by Oxford University Press in December 2015.

Do Mobile Phones Empower Women? An Analysis Of Policy And Advocacy Campaigns Promoting Access To Information And Communication Technology (ICT)

February 6, 2020 by bb53 Leave a Comment

Author: Kristina Scheurle, February 2020.

“Access to ICT alone does not equate empowerment, and policies with access as a primary focus may at best fall short of supporting gender equality and at worst may actually perpetuate gender-based stereotypes, bias and violence. While owning a mobile phone may be one indicator of empowerment, it by no means guarantees it.”

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#CGAat15 Faculty Interview Series: Carolyn Kissane

February 4, 2020 by bb53 Leave a Comment

Dr. Carolyn Kissane serves as Academic Director of the M.S. in Global Affairs and M.S. in Global Security, Conflict and Cybercrime. and Clinical Professor at the Center for Global Affairs at New York University where she teaches graduate level courses examining the geopolitics of energy, Comparative Energy Politics, Central Asian region, transformations in China, and energy, environment, and resource security. Complementing her academic, public service and consultant experience, Dr. Kissane is the author of numerous publications looking at China and Central Asia, the energy transition, energy diplomacy in India, and U.S. energy security, and an upcoming book on oil and the resource curse. Dr. Kissane is Coordinator of the Energy and Environmental Policy concentration at the Center and is faculty adviser to the Energy Policy International Club (EPIC). She was awarded the esteemed NYU Excellence in Teaching Award in 2007, the SCPS Award for Teaching Excellence in 2009, and nominated for the NYU-wide Distinguished Teaching Award in 2008, 2009, 2016 and 2018. She is a recipient of the Graduate Enhancement Area and Language Studies Award, Fulbright-Hayes Dissertation Award, IREX Grants, NYU Curricular Development Challenge Fund Grant, and NYU Dean’s Research Grant.She was named Breaking Energy’s Top Ten New York Women in Energy and Top Ten Energy Communicator. She hosts Fueling our Future, an energy series she moderates which bring in energy and environment experts for conversation and debate. She also serves on the boards of the Energy Forum, NYU Tandon Clean Start Advisory Board, CIV-Lab, and Art for Refugees in Transition. Dr. Kissane received her Ph.D. from Columbia University.

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Youth as a Catalyst of Change: Hong Kong

February 3, 2020 by bb53 Leave a Comment

Author: Yani Aldrich, February 2020.

“The Hong Kong youth have been catalysts for so much change in just the past seven years and they are still going forward in full force. Some youth leaders are even running for seats in the legislature (Yiu-man). As a youth-led movement, the Hong Kong protests have the power to change the future. Youth can take the necessary risks to fight back against Beijing’s continued advancements to diminish Hong Kong’s autonomy, they are innovative, and their passion leads the movement because they are fighting for the future and future generations.”

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Rethinking Cambodia: A New Strategic Interest

February 2, 2020 by bb53 Leave a Comment

Author: Shaoyu Yuan, February 2020.

“For years, the government of the U.S. has overlooked the strategic significance and economic interests of having Cambodia on our side. Although Cambodia has long sided with the opposite of Western ideology, as the status quo of the world changes and the weight of Southeast Asia increases, it is time for the U.S. to reconsider its courses of action and shift some of its strategic focus to the region.”

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ISIS Recruitment of Youth via Social Media

February 2, 2020 by bb53 11 Comments

Author: Makenzi Taylor, February 2020.

“This wide demographic of ISIS recruits reveals just how vulnerable and impressionable youth are, while demonstrating the groups’ effectiveness at recruiting via social media. This article examines ISIS’s recruitment strategies through social media during both its reign in 2014 and after it lost control of territory in Syria and Iraq in 2017.”

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Addressing the Return of ISIS Female Foreign Terrorist Fighters

January 29, 2020 by bb53 Leave a Comment

Author: Gabby Silberman, January 2020.

“The phenomenon of individuals joining foreign terrorist groups is nothing new, however, it has not been seen at such a large scale. Now countries are left to determine how to handle foreign terrorist fighters who want to return home. This paper aims to address the issue of returning female foreign terrorist fighters from ISIS and the different policy avenues Western countries can implement.”

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#CGAat15 Faculty Interview Series: Dean Vera Jelinek

January 28, 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 Dr. Vera Jelinek, to discuss her CGA journey and experience. Dr. Jelinek’s mission to create a community of global citizens has spanned over three decades at New York University. Under her direction, 2004 brought the birth of the Masters of Science in Global Affairs program and the emergence of the CGA in lower Manhattan’s historic Woolworth Building. Dr. Jelinek maintains close ties with international and non-governmental organizations, the UN community, international media, the private sector and government agencies. She has a Ph.D. in modern European history from NYU, a Masters in International Affairs from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a B.A. in history from Queens College.

In Conversation with Belinda Cooper: Commemorating the 30th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall

November 29, 2019 by bb53 Leave a Comment

Belinda Cooper is an Adjunct Assistant Professor who teaches human rights and women’s rights at NYU’s Center for Global Affairs and co-teaches the global field intensive on war crimes prosecutions in The Hague and former Yugoslavia. She is also an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University’s Institute for the Study of Human Rights.

Professor Cooper’s experience has included working with East German dissidents in Berlin, Germany before the fall of communism. To commemorate the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall this month, the Global Affairs Review sat down with Professor Cooper to hear about her experiences during that historically pivotal time.

The Global Affairs Review welcomes Professor Pano Yannakogeorgos to NYU

November 26, 2019 by bb53 Leave a Comment

The Global Affairs Review (GAR) welcomes Professor Pano Yannakogeorgos to NYU’s Center for Global Affairs (CGA) community. To mark this occasion, GAR sat down with Professor Yannakogeorgos to discuss his new role at the CGA. He joins the CGA community as a Clinical Associate Professor and Faculty Lead for the new M.S. in Global Security, Conflict & Cybercrime. Prior to working at the CGA, Professor Yannakogeorgos served as Founding Dean at the Air Force Cyber College, developing and spearheading a new educational institution to teach cyber concepts, theories and stratagems across the Air Force.

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