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Released: 8-Oct-2012 8:00 AM EDT
Wake Up America! Preventing Failure in Post 9/11 Foreign Policy
Arizona State University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

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?”

Released: 21-Sep-2012 8:00 AM EDT
Values Clash in U.S. Reactions to Middle East Turmoil Says Military Historian
Missouri University of Science and Technology

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.

Released: 10-Jul-2012 8:30 AM EDT
Demographics Drive Democracy
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Population stories to watch from the Wilson Center.

Released: 11-Jun-2012 6:00 AM EDT
Role Reversal: New Book by UC Berkeley Prof. David Vogel Illustrates How the U.S. Lost Its Lead in Risk Regulation to Europe
University of California, Berkeley Haas School of Business

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.

Released: 6-Jun-2012 9:05 AM EDT
June Trifecta Could Save Eurozone: Greek Election, G-20 & EU Council Summit
American University

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.

   
Released: 16-May-2012 8:30 AM EDT
American University Experts Available to Discuss NATO Summit
American University

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.

Released: 15-May-2012 12:50 PM EDT
Atrocities Prevention Board Could Significantly Change U.S. Foreign Policy
Washington University in St. Louis

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.

Released: 15-May-2012 10:00 AM EDT
Military Enforcement Not the Answer to Mexican Drug War, Say Cornell Latino Studies Professor
Cornell University

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.

Released: 7-May-2012 4:00 PM EDT
Greece Could Be Broke by June, Economist Says
Washington University in St. Louis

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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