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With Blue Note Jazz Club opening a venue in Beijing, a genre that’s flagging stateside may experience a Far East revival.
In an all-out promotional blitz, John Kerry spoke at a hastily arranged Q&A July 24 to a Council on Foreign Relations in New York. Five days later, he faced two less restrained audiences, testifying…
Lord Palmerston, Britain’s 19th-century prime minister, was reputedly the first person to have coined the phrase that Nations have no permanent friends or allies, they only have permanent interests. Many…
Who gets to vote? As Campaign 2016 looms, Democrats and Republicans are clashing on just who gets to exercise this fundamental right in a democracy.
So, after five years of interminable rounds of negotiating and posturing, Greece’s status in the eurozone appears to have reached the endgame. It may be premature to pronounce the matter in any way settled…
If Americans are hiding behind the explosion of diversity to avoid looking at racism, what can universities do about it? A lot.
On the face of it, Iraq and the US Federal Reserve share little. One is a country plagued by division, war and mayhem since the US invasion of 2003. It is a brutal world where there are no friends, few…
A California commission ruled that an Uber driver is an employee, not a contractor, but the decision will do little to resolve the murky legal issue.
Events in Washington this week on the proposed historic 12-member Trans-Pacific trade agreement have had all the key elements of a Shakespearean tragedy. A resolute, noble and well-intentioned ruler (played…
I have lived in the US for over three decades. And I have never seen soccer – that is, real “football” – dominate the front pages of US newspapers for so many days and with so many stories. In that sense…
Washington is in the midst of a heated debate over President Obama’s proposed Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement. It certainly has created some unorthodox political bedfellows. The president is…
The British election has come and gone, and the results have confounded the expectations of most pollsters. Words such as “historic,” “extraordinary” and “political earthquake” have been used to describe…
German philosopher Jurgen Habermas once famously pronounced the European Union a force for good: A model for what he described as a “cosmopolitan world order.” The Nobel committee agreed and in 2012 awarded…
On the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide, we asked scholars to reflect on the significance of Armenian insistence on remembering and Turkey’s insistence that the genocide never happened.
It’s hard to believe, but the 2016 US presidential election process has begun in earnest. Two major candidates, Rand Paul and Hillary Clinton, recently announced they are running. And now Marco Rubio.
Scholars weigh in on the Israeli Prime Minister’s warning that current negotiations are “paving the way” to an Iranian bomb.
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Distinguished Professor of Anthropology; Director, Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, Rutgers University - Newark
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Associate Professor of Law, Rutgers University - Newark
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Lecturer of Arts, Culture & Media, Rutgers University - Newark
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Associate Professor of Public Affairs and Administration, Rutgers University - Newark
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Professor Emerita of Biological Sciences, Rutgers University - Newark
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Associate Professor of Economics, Rutgers University - Newark
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Associate Professor, Rutgers University - Newark
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Associate Professor of History, Rutgers University - Newark
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Professor of Psychology, Rutgers University - Newark
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Clinical Professor of Law, Director of the International Human Rights Clinic, Rutgers University - Newark
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Rachel Hadas is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor of English, Rutgers University - Newark
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Professor of Law and Judge Norma Shapiro Scholar, Rutgers University - Newark
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Professor of Public Affairs and Administration, Rutgers University - Newark
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Professor of Management and Global Business, Rutgers University - Newark
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Professor of Psychology, Rutgers University - Newark
