An Interview with Syrian writer, journalist, activist Samar Yazbek on the growing influence of jihadists in Syria.
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An Interview with David S. Cohen on the Treasury’s role in addressing terrorist threats, terrorism financing, and the efficacy of sanctions.
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An Interview with Alexander Evans on his career as an academic and diplomat, as well as policy-making and diplomacy in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and India.
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An Interview with Janet Napolitano on international cybersecurity threats, the Department of Homeland Security, immigration, and privacy.
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An Interview with John Prendergast on US foreign policy toward Africa.
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An Interview with Domingo Cavallo and Rakesh Mohan
Cavallo and Mohan discuss the financial crisis in the US and Europe.
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An Interview with Richard Goldstone
Goldstone discusses the main challenges facing the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the International Human Rights Tribunal.
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An interview with Michele Malvesti on policy concerns of counterterrorism (CT) actions and the role of Special Operations Forces (SOF) in ensuring national security.
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An Interview with Founder & CEO of Women for Women International, Zainab Salbi
Women for Women International has helped hundreds of thousands of women and distributed nearly $100 million in aid, including direct aid and micro-credit loans.
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An Interview with Aziz Royesh and Orzala Ashraf Nemat, Yale World Fellows
Royesh and Nemat discuss the advancement of the rights of women in Afghanistan.
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An Interview with María Corina Machado on democracy in Venezuela.
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An Interview with General Stanley McChrystal
General McCrystal discusses the implications of the discovery of copper, gold, cobalt and lithium in Afghanistan.
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An Interview with Ambassador John D. Negroponte
Negroponte discusses the evolvement of the U.S.’s approaches to security.
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An Interview with Stephen M. Walt
Walt discusses his balance-of-threat theory, the Obama Administration’s policies in the Middle East, and top security threats to the United States.
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An Interview with Mary Kaldor on human security.
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An Interview with Vicente Fox, Former President of Mexico
In March 2010, Yale postgraduate fellow Matthew Blomerth studying in Mexico sat down with former Mexican head-of-state, President Vicente Fox, at his presidential library to discuss challenges that Mexico faces due to its high reliance on oil sale revenues at a time of rapidly diminishing production.
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An Interview with Paul Collier
YJIA: Your work focuses on the “Bottom Billion,” people in small, impoverished, post-colonial countries that you say are structurally unable to provide certain crucial public goods, most notably security and accountability.
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An Interview with George Ayittey
Foreign aid has become an increasingly hot topic, particularly among students and in academia. Aid arguments often fall into one of two camps: that the aid industry is inefficient and ineffective, and should therefore be drastically reformed and even reduced; or that aid can effectively fight poverty, especially if scaled-up.
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An Interview with Nancy Birdsall
YJIA: Foreign aid has become an increasingly hot topic, particularly among students and in academia. Aid arguments often fall into one of two camps: that the aid industry is inefficient and ineffective, and should therefore be drastically reformed and even reduced; or that aid can effectively fight poverty, especially if scaled-up.
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An Interview with William Easterly on the aid landscape and non-governmental organizations.
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