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July 24, 2009

"At the moment there are few grounds for optimism." — Farzana Shaikh on Pakistan

“Pakistan differs from other countries in that its ideological confusion has bred dangerous consequences that go well beyond the frontier of the state. Until the country clarifies its relationship with Islam, it cannot be expected to do more in the...

July 23, 2009

More perspectives on the health care crisis

What do social scientists have to contribute to the continuing debate about the health care crisis? In Health at Risk: America’s Ailing Health System—And How to Heal It, edited by Jacob Hacker, sociologists, economists, political scientists, and legal scholars examine...

July 22, 2009

Houston Baker on the arrest of Henry Louis Gates

The following post is by Houston Baker, Distinguished University Professor at Vanderbilt University and the author of many books, most recently Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Rights Era. The surreal arrest of Professor Henry...

July 9, 2009

Farzana Shaikh Has Tea with The Economist

Farzana Shaikh, author of Making Sense of Pakistan recently appeared on The Economist‘s series Tea with the Economist to talk about her book, Pakistan, India, Islam, and the army.

July 8, 2009

Stephen Cohen Talks to the Daily Beast and Charlie Rose (and Others) about Russia

Various television programs and Web sites have been looking to Stephen Cohen, the author of Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the the New Cold War to provide perspectives on Obama’s recent trip to Russia and U.S.-Russian relations....

July 2, 2009

Stephen Cohen on GRITtv with Laura Flanders

With Obama’s scheduled trip to Russia next week, talk has once again turned to the future of U.S.-Russian relations. In his interview with Laura Flanders on GRITtv, Stephen Cohen, author of Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the...

July 1, 2009

“Green Dam” as a Case of Online Activism in China

The following is a post by Guobin Yang, author of The Power of the Internet in China: Citizen Activism Online. According to a directive first issued by China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology on May 19, 2009, July 1...

June 29, 2009

Human Trafficking Report / Siddharth Kara

Earlier this month, the State Department released its annual Trafficking in Persons Report, which assesses more than 170 countries on what efforts their governments are taking to stop human trafficking. The release of the report was reported on the Foreign...

June 25, 2009

Guobin Yang on Online Activism in China and Iran

In a recent article on Yale Global Online, Guobin Yang, author of the recently published The Power of the Internet in China: Citizen Activism Online, examines the similarities and differences among Internet activists in Iran and China. While Iranian protesters...

June 24, 2009

Iran: This Is Not a Revolution, by Arshin Adib-Moghaddam

In an essay for the Monthly Review Web site MRZine, Arshin Adib-Moghaddam, author of Iran in World Politics: The Question of the Islamic Republic, argues that what we are witnessing in Iran is not a revolution so much as a...

June 23, 2009

Richard Bulliet on Iran

Prominent Middle Eastern historian Richard Bulliet, author of the just-published Cotton, Climate, and Camels in Early Islamic Iran: A Moment in World History, recently wrote an op-ed in the New York Times on the crisis in Iran. In the op-ed,...

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