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ANDREW BACEVICH + PHILIP MALDARI Zoom Event After the Apocalypse: America’s Role in a World Transformed …………………………………………………………………… Tuesday, June 22, 2021, 6 PM  A bold and urgent perspective on how American foreign policy must change in response to the shifting world order of the twenty-first century, from the  New York Times’ bestselling author of  The Limits of Power and  The Age of Illusions. The purpose of U.S. foreign policy has, at least theoretically, been to keep Americans safe. Yet as we confront a radically changed world,...

Graduate degree recipients attend the morning ceremony, undergraduates the afternoon ceremony Government COVID-19 gathering limits preclude single ceremony on Nickerson Field The 148th Boston University Commencement on May 16—already historically reconfigured by COVID-19—is getting another unprecedented makeover: it will now consist of two separate ceremonies, a morning one for graduate degree recipients and an afternoon gathering for bachelor’s degree recipients, both on Nickerson Field. The change, announced Friday in a letter to candidates for graduation by President Robert A. Brown,...

Twitter Facebook WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange apparently has a new follower: the incoming president of the United States. Early in January, Donald Trump tweeted Assange’s denial that Russia was the source of hacked emails from the Democratic National Committee (DNC) that WikiLeaks had published. US intelligence has insisted Russia was the culprit. BU’s Paul Hare begs to differ with those who admire Assange. When Edward Snowden thinks you have a big mouth, Hare says, you may have a problem. Former National Security Agency whistleblower Snowden has criticized WikiLeaks for failing...

Criticism over firing of HE commission chair The News International. Dr Adil Najam, dean of the Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University in the United States, slammed the authorities on his removal and said Banuri was being “bullied out by pygmies” for trying to mend a broken system. He said that the ordinance will further wreck an already shattered system. “Petty personal interests and a vile malicious campaign proves again that the greatest enemy of system reform is the system itself,” he added. There were reportedly widespread complaints against him, accusing him of runni...

Share Cambodia, ASEAN likely to teeter off balance with RCEP Thu, 1 April 2021 Four months after RCEP was signed, a study surfaces, with gloomy trade data, portending a shaky future for the Kingdom and ASEAN as a whole Prominent economist and trade policy scholar Jagdish Bhagwati once likened free trade agreements (FTAs) to “termites” that “eat away” at multilateral trading systems “relentlessly and progressively”. His remark, which described the title of his 2008 book Termites in the Trading System – How Preferential Agreements Undermine Free Trade, was intuitive in that he ta...