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Julio Antonio Garmendía Peña, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Cuba to the Russian Federation, visited UrFU on April 23. The Cuban delegation also included Gustavo Jose Cobreiro Suarez, Counselor for Education and Scien

Next month, the Malta Sociological Association will be holding its 2nd international conference on - Sociology of Southern Europe. The Association explained that the academic presentations in this conference will be organised according to the following themes, in relation to Southern Europe: Chan

The “Kennan Sweepstakes,” they called it in the early 1990s. Decades earlier, the diplomat George Kennan had won lasting renown (and lifelong self-torture) with his writings at the Cold War’s outset that outlined the nature of the Soviet threat to the United States and prescribed a vague strategy to counter it. Now, as the Soviet Union relaxed its grip on Central Europe and then imploded, leading thinkers, government officials, and policy wonks scrambled to define the nature...

The Malta Sociological Association will be holding its second international conference entitled 'Sociology of Southern Europe,' on Saturday, the 11th of November, at King's Own, Republic Street, Valletta between 8.30am-1pm. The academic presentations in this conference will be organised according

When judges and justices elect to become or act as counsels in an election litigation suit before them, then there is no hope for the nation and its democracy.

A new version of the classic formulation of a clash of civilisations may increasingly be propelled by a motivated China and a nervous America.

A summer reading list.

There are few more consequential questions in world affairs than China’s uncertain future trajectory. Assumptions of a reformist China integrated into the international community have given way in recent years to serious concerns about the nation’s internal and external direction, as China has become more repressive at home and more assertive abroad.

George Soros is relying too much on civil society and its role in political processes, but ignoring the part of institutional process may create political instability in a country

A curated list of what’s coming up around campus, Boston, the country, and the world, for the week of April 10.