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Dr. Jules Boykoff can discuss mainstream media's coverage of social movements and the industry's effect on public dissent.

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Dr. Moore is one of the most widely used political analysts in the Pacific Northwest. He can speak with authority on all U.S. political issues.

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A new study on mental health in Afghanistan looks beyond the effects of its 12-year war and identifies the root causes of mental distress and anxiety among its citizens: poverty and vulnerability.

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More than 10 years after what’s been called the greatest “wake-up call” in American history, former U.S. Senator Russ Feingold comes to Arizona State University to ask, “Are we focused on solving the international problems that threaten America?”

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U.S. reactions to tensions in the Middle East reflect an age-old dichotomy in American foreign policy – pragmatism versus morality, says military historian Dr. John C. McManus.

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Population stories to watch from the Wilson Center.

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Air pollution, climate change, food additives, pesticides, cosmetic safety, and electronic product hazards all pose global consumer and environmental risks, but the regulatory controls to manage them vary by country and by region. In recent decades, Europe has taken the lead over the U.S. in comprehensively managing such risks, according to a new book by UC Berkeley Professor David Vogel. In "The Politics of Precaution: Regulating Health, Safety, and Environmental Risks in Europe and the United States" (Princeton University Press 2012), Vogel argues that there has been an overall shift towards greater regulation to manage risk in Europe than in the United States in the last five decades.

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American University’s EU and business experts Matthias Matthijs, Stephen Silvia, and Robert Sicina are available to discuss the current state of the Eurozone economy, risks associated with plans to rescue the EU economy, the impact of the three events coming up later this month, and the impact the euro crisis is having on the U.S.

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What is the future of NATO? Can the Europeans or the Americans continue to fund NATO capabilities? Will the Alliance commitment to Afghanistan operations decline as European nations withdraw? Experts from American University are available to discuss the isues.

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President Barack Obama recently announced the establishment of an Atrocities Prevention Board as part of his comprehensive strategy to prevent genocide and mass atrocities. “For the first time, the National Intelligence Council will prepare an estimate on the global risk of mass atrocities and genocide,” says Leila Nadya Sadat, JD, international law expert and director of the Whitney R. Harris World Law Institute at Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. “By sensitizing the diplomatic and intelligence communities to atrocities risk and systematizing responses to potential crises, the policies of the Atrocities Prevention Board could significantly change in U.S. foreign policy,” she says.

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Ron Mize, assistant professor of Latino Studies at Cornell University, and co-author of “Consuming Mexican Labor and Latino Immigrants in the United States,” comments on this week’s events in Monterrey, Mexico that claimed 49 lives in the country’s ongoing drug war.

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If international lenders refuse to renegotiate substantial reductions in Greek public debt, chances are that whatever government emerges in Greece in the next few weeks will run out of cash by the end of June, says an economist at Washington University in St. Louis.

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While the U.S. is drawing down significantly and turning over operations to the Afghans, it’s a mistake to say the war is ending. The war will continue beyond 2014 for the Afghans as well as for those U.S. service men and women who comprise the residual force that remains in country.

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Allen Carlson is a professor of government at Cornell University, has worked with the nonprofit National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, and has published several books on Chinese foreign relations. He comments on the recent escape of Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng from house arrest to the U.S. embassy in Beijing.

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Energy could very well become the tipping point that sours or improves relations between the Chinese and the United States, according to recent research in the Asian Politics and Policy journal this month. The study, which examines strategies employed by the Chinese to procure energy from Saudi Arabia, Iran and Iraq, signals that while the United States should not fear China’s actions, it’s best to keep a close watch on what the Chinese are doing.

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American University U.S.-Brazil, foreign policy, and Latin America experts are available to provide analysis of Brazil's Rousseff’s White House visit on Monday, April 9.

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Robert Pastor is available to discuss the importance North American Leaders' Summit (NALS) hosted by President Obama. "While many focus on China's rise and Europe's fall, few seem to realize that our first and second largest markets in the world and largest sources of energy imports are Canada and Mexico," Pastor said.

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A new analysis showing how the radical policies advocated by western economists helped to bankrupt Russia and other former Soviet countries after the Cold War has been released by researchers.

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Peacekeeping operations grew in 2011, but at a slower rate than in previous years, according to a new report by the Center on International Cooperation (CIC) at New York University. The change was largely attributable to a decline in United Nations peacekeeping deployments last year. The findings appear in CIC’s Annual Review of Global Peace Operations 2012.

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Presidents have consistently sought to bolster the country’s role overseas, stretching from Europe to Asia to South America during the post-WWII era. But, despite the appearance of consensus across presidential administrations, U.S. policy has been fiercely debated behind closed doors. In The Dissent Papers: The Voices of Diplomats in the Cold War and Beyond, Hannah Gurman explores the overlooked opposition of U.S. diplomats to American foreign policy in the latter half of the 20th century, beginning with the Cold War and concluding with the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

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The Arab Spring began in early 2011 in Tunisia as a demonstration in support of a street vendor who committed suicide to protest his mistreatment at the hands of a city official. Since then, the movement has spread throughout the Arab world to protest corruption in government and human rights violations. With many nations recently marking the one-year anniversaries of these revolutionary events, two Florida State University faculty members are available to provide analysis and perspective.

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The growing number of people living in China’s cities is considered a boon for the consumer goods market. That is based on the assumption that there will be more families with more disposable income when poor farmers from China’s countryside move to cities. But the assumption overlooks a policy from the era of Chinese leader Mao Zedong that restricts the upward mobility of its rural citizens, says a University of Washington geographer.