Category: International Affairs
The Proud Boys, the Oath Keepers and jihadist extremists: What they have in common and what they don’tJune 13, 2022Leaders of the Proud Boys were indicted on charges of conspiracy and sedition for their alleged role in the Jan. 6 insurrection. Professor Jytte Klausen, an expert on domestic and international terrorism, offers her insight.
Embracing stillness in the Himalayan MountainsApril 21, 2022During her study abroad in Bhutan, Liddy Grossman ’23 was one of the first Americans to enter the country after the pandemic.
Anita Hill: The Senate Judiciary Committee mistreated Judge Jackson. I should know.April 7, 2022The University Professor proposes The Senate Judiciary Committee reform its proceedings and return the confirmation process back to something that it — and the country — can view with pride.
Brandeis International Business School to launch $1 million scholarship for refugees fleeing Ukraine, other war-torn countriesApril 7, 2022Thanks to generous donations, the Peace Scholarship Fund will support up to 10 graduate students.
SWIFT, yachts and oligarchs: Can financial sanctions end the war in Ukraine?March 25, 2022Brandeis International Business School professors Stephen Cecchetti and Aldo Musacchio examine the West’s economic ‘arms race’ against Russia
Returning to Jordan: Landing a dream internship abroadMarch 25, 2022Though Daniel C. ’24 is from Maryland, his heart lies halfway across the world in Jordan.
Dispatches from Ukraine: Alumni share stories of horror and hope from KyivMarch 9, 2022Alumni living in Ukraine tell harrowing stories, and ask the Brandeis community for help, from the center of the conflict.
Read and listen to University Professor Anita HillFeb. 28, 2022University Professor Anita Hill writes about what it means for a Black woman be nominated for the Supreme Court, and separately, launches a new podcast: "Getting Even."
Prospects of a nuclear confrontation are low, says Crown Center directorFeb. 24, 2022Gary Samore, who spent two decades in the U.S. government focusing on nuclear arms control and preventing the spread of nuclear weapons, discusses the Russian invasion of Ukraine and its implications.
If you see an empty red dress on campus, this is whyNov. 15, 2021Seeing one can be halting. Finding out what they represent can make them more profound.
The Arab Jewish musical revolutionNov. 12, 2021In the last two decades, a small group of Mizrahi Jews — Jews of Middle Eastern and North African descent — have returned to their Arab Jewish roots and begun transforming the Israel's popular music scene.
Saving a concentration camp from being forgottenNov. 5, 2021Brandeis scholar Karen Frostig is on a quest to memorialize the camp in Latvia where her grandparents perished.
The U.S. was not prepared for a pandemic – is free market capitalism to blame?Nov. 5, 2021Associate Professor of International and Global Studies Elanah Uretsky examines some of the factors that led to a slow response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.
Bringing humanity to NPR’s Middle East beatNov. 1, 2021Daniel Estrin ’06 might be holding his microphone inches away from the U.S. president and the Israeli prime minister in Washington one day, and capturing the words of the head of Hamas in Gaza days later.
Bioweapons research is banned by an international treaty – but nobody is checking for violationsJuly 21, 2021The history of the Biological Weapons Convention reveals the limits of attempts to control research and development of biological agents, says professor Gary Samore.
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