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The Chronicle of Higher Education
February 18, 2018
Sarah E. Mendelson, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Economic and Social Council under President Obama, to professor of public policy and head of the Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy campus of Carnegie Mellon University, in Washington. Brenda Roman, assistantÃâà...
New York Times
September 17, 2017
“The train has left the station, and he wants the train to come back to the station,” said Sarah E. Mendelson, an ambassador to the United Nations Economic and Social Council under Mr. Obama. “It's going to go on regardless of what the president does or doesn't say.” Mr. Trump will begin the week onÃâà...
Foreign Affairs
July 13, 2017
Former U.S. officials who reflect on their time in office tend to come from the government's most senior ranks. The public typically hears less about the cut and thrust of policymaking that takes place several levels down the bureaucratic chain. As I reflect on my experience in two political appointments overÃâà...
Foreign Affairs
July 3, 2017
For decades now, the United Nations has struggled to avert crises before they happen rather than merely respond to them. In 1992, UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali called for conflict prevention in his signature treatise, An Agenda for Peace. But in the years that followed, the UN and theÃâà...
Foreign Affairs
October 11, 2016
In an exceedingly rare show of bipartisanship, on September 28, Congress enacted the Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA). This act is popularly referred to as the 9/11 victims bill because it allows families of the victims of the September 11, 2001, attacks to sue Saudi Arabia in U.S. districtÃâà...
Foreign Affairs
October 6, 2015
One January morning in 1995, an article appeared in a Russian-language newspaper that contained an allegedly declassified fragment from a report by the Federal Counterintelligence Service (one of several Russian intelligence agencies that emerged from the KGB after the collapse of the Soviet Union).
Foreign Affairs
May 29, 2015
When it comes to North Korea, nothing is beyond the pale. The hermit kingdom is known for summary executions, abducting foreign citizens, and for hacking entertainment giant Sony. According to new research, Pyongyang is also trafficking its citizens, selling their labor in exchange for foreign currency.
Foreign Affairs
March 10, 2015
When the activist Boris Nemtsov was murdered steps from the Kremlin just before a large march he helped to organize, he joined a long list of human rights activists, journalists, and lawyers who ultimately sacrificed their lives for the illusive ideal of an open Russia. Their brave effort has only gotten tougherÃâà...
Foreign Affairs
December 15, 2014
No Illusions: The Voices of Russia's Future Leaders. BY ELLEN MICKIEWICZ. Oxford University Press, 2014, 264 pp. $29.95. Twenty years ago, while working for the National Democratic Institute in Russia, I found myself observing a focus group in the town of Khimki, not far from Moscow. In a drabÃâà...
Foreign Affairs
September 22, 2014
The buying and selling of humans is big business -- and an enormous development challenge. It is estimated to generate anywhere from $32 billion to $150 billion a year and affect tens of millions of people: the International Labor Organization believes that nearly 21 million men, women, and children areÃâà...
