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Opinions | The lines that keep getting crossed in international politics Daniel Drezner © Onliner By Handout/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock A security dog checks the luggage of passengers in front of Ryanair Flight 4978, which was carrying opposition figure Roman Protasevich, in Minsk, Belarus, on Sunday. Over the weekend Belarusian authorities diverted Ryanair Flight 4978 from Greece to Vilnius from its flight path with a fake bomb threat. The plane was closest to the Vilnius ai...

May 25, 2021 Some Lady Climbed into a Monkey Cage at the Zoo and Fed Them Flamin Hot Cheetos A woman in Texas went to a zoo in El Paso, TX over the weekend . . . climbed into a monkey enclosure . . . and started feeding them FLAMIN HOT CHEETOS. They were spider monkeys, which arent huge. But they can still do a lot of damage if they want to. And obviously, Cheetos arent part of their normal diet. Luckily, the woman wasnt hurt, and the monkeys will probably be okay. A zookeeper said the Flami...

What happened in Belarusian airspace over the weekend was bad. Russia's reaction to it was worse.

By The Rod Ryan Show May 25, 2021 I dont know if this technically counts as animal cruelty, but maybe it should . . . A woman in Texas went to a zoo in El Paso over the weekend . . . climbed into a monkey enclosure . . . and started feeding them FLAMIN HOT CHEETOS. They were spider monkeys, which arent huge. But they can still do a lot of damage if they want to. And obviously, Cheetos arent part of their normal diet. Luckily, the woman wasnt hurt, and the monkeys will probably be okay. A zo...

"the number of arrivals kept pace with the usual seasonal trends plus some pent-up demand"

Tuesday, 4 May, 2021 - 12:30 to 13:30 We are beginning to understand that globalization has strategic consequences. Countries are using their position in globalized networks to “weaponize interdependence”, through their dominance of information and financial networks. In this talk, Henry Farrell will discuss the research and policy agenda of weaponized interdependence, addressing such questions as: What areas of the global economy are most vulnerable to unilateral control of information a...

Tweet About two weeks ago, the Washington Post published an analysis of the border crisis with the provocative and misleading headline, “There’s no migrant ‘surge’ at the U.S. southern border. Here’s the data.” After the authors were called out by the Post’s own immigration reporter, the piece was revised significantly. In addition to a softer headline, “The migrant ‘surge’ at the U.S. southern border is actually a predictable pattern,” the revised piece added an entirel...

Lauren Prather is an assistant professor of international relations at the School. Her work focuses on the domestic determinants of foreign policy, U.S. foreign policy, democracy promotion and democratization, Middle East politics, and experimental methods. Her research is supported by the National Science Foundation, the Institute for Research in the Social Sciences, the Europe Center, and the Laboratory for the Study of American Values at Stanford University. Prather’s work has or will appe...

Melinas research focuses on comparative political and human development. The regional focus of her research is sub-Saharan Africa, where she has worked and conducted fieldwork in Uganda, Rwanda, Malawi, Nigeria, South Africa and Ghana. She employs a variety of research methods and data sources, including quantitative analysis of large household surveys, GIS, archival research, ethnography, and survey experiments. She also employs large-scale field experiments to study political behavior and loc...

‘Positively rowdy’: the hysterical ‘lockdown laughter’ sweeping BBC radio Zoom audiences are getting the giggles, much to the delight of Radio 4 listeners and frustration of its editors, who can barely contain it 17 February 2021 • 2:54pm Cheering the nation: Brian Cox and Robin Ince for Radio 4s The Infinite Monkey Cage Credit: BBC In a recent edition of Radio 4’s The News Quiz (Series 104, Episode 6 to be exact), compere Andy Zaltzman presided over an outbreak of drollery concern...