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Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan

Harris Public Policy students visited Zaatari refugee camp as part of the 2018 Pearson International Conflict Seminar to Jordan, where they met with Syrian refugees leading NGO programming within the camp.

Ramin Kohanteb/The Pearson Institute

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The Washington Post / 08.10.21

What are the Taliban’s next moves?

Here’s the research on earlier withdrawals from Afghanistan.

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Dusk in Kabul, Afghanistan. Telephone poles and a few pedestrians are in the foreground with mountains in the background.
The Washington Post / 07.29.21

The narrow path to liberal democracy

The news this week that democracy is imperiled in Tunisia — the only success story of the Arab Spring — comes just three weeks after we heard that Haiti’s president had been assassinated. Meanwhile, in Afghanistan, the government seems unable to establish authority across the country. It got me thinking about one of the fundamental questions of politics: Why is it so difficult to develop and sustain liberal democracy?

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Roman ruins are shown, cobblestone streets in the foreground and an old stone archway in the background with a blue sky.
The New York Times / 06.22.21

The Vacuous Phrase at the Core of Biden’s Foreign Policy

Anyone who slogs through the diplomatic verbiage generated last week by President Biden’s inaugural overseas trip will notice one phrase again and again: “rules-based.” It appears twice in Mr. Biden’s joint statement with Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain, four times each in the communiqués the United States issued with the governments of the Group of 7 and the European Union, and six times in the manifesto produced by NATO.

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Flags of multiple countries blow in the wind, with blue sky in the background.

The Econometric Society

09.22.21

Congratulations to our 2021 Fellows

The Society is pleased to announce the election of 51 new Fellows of the Econometric Society.

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09.17.21

How states flail and fail: What Modi and Shah could learn from the Afghanistan tragedy

A top-down, coercive approach to governance is rarely successful.

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Newsweek

09.16.21

Biden's Build Back Better Plan Will 'Ease' Inflation, 15 Nobel Prize Economists Say

Agroup of Nobel Prize-winning economists believes President Joe Biden's multi-trillion dollar Build Back Better plan will "ease" inflation—despite concerns expressed by Republicans and some moderate Democrats that it will do the opposite.

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Western Wall

Harris Public Policy students visited the Western Wall in Jerusalem as part of the 2019 Pearson International Conflict Seminar to Israel and the West Bank.

Ramin Kohanteb / The Pearson Institute