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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

News
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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.

Iran Podcast

10.15.21

University of Chicago Panel

Negar Mortazavi joins a panel discussion at the University of Chicago’s Pearson Institute, about Iran’s foreign and domestic policies under the new hardline administration of Ebrahim Raisi, with Mahsa Rouhi, Vali Nasr, Pouya Alimagham and Ali Vaez.

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Harris News

10.12.21

Student Profile: Alejandro Roemer, MPP Class of 2022, Pearson Fellow

Roemer wants to use his MPP to tackle drug-related violence in a more interdisciplinary fashion in Mexico.

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El Mostrador

10.11.21

Chile tiene desafíos, pero los puede resolver como nadie en Latinoamérica

El economista James Robinson fue enfático en señalar que si el país enfrenta sus problemas de inclusión el desarrollo económico «se va a solucionar solo y va a hacer de las instituciones políticas más inclusivas, lo que ya está ocurriendo, lo hemos visto en la participación de las personas y lo que ellas debaten, en otras partes eso no ocurre». 

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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