On April 26, University of Toronto Associate Professor of Political Science Lucan Way visited the University of Washington to give a public lecture on his new book, Pluralism by Default: Weak Autocrats and the Rise of Competitive Politics. As part of his talk, Dr. Way outlined his theory about the perhaps surprising rise of pluralism in

Daniel Rosenblum, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Central Asia at the U.S. Department of State, visited the University of Washington earlier this year and gave a talk to packed room of graduate students, faculty and community members, including representatives of the Seattle-Tashkent Sister City Association. He started his remarks by sharing the story of his own

Greta Starrett is a second year MA student in the REECAS program at UW. She completed an internship in summer 2015 for the U.S. Department of State at the embassy in Tbilisi, Georgia. I was back on Georgian soil. It was hard to believe: I had only left a little over a year earlier at

By Carol J. Williams It’s easy to see what it is about Vladimir Putin that impresses Donald Trump. The Russian president has made more than a slogan of his aim to make his country great again. He’s grabbed territory in Ukraine and Georgia that was lost in the Soviet Union’s collapse. He’s sent warships and