MARCH 22, 2017 POSTED BY: MONIQUE THORMANN   What do a U.S. Navy Admiral, American and foreign ambassadors, NGO directors, Indigenous Peoples leaders and a group of University of Washington international studies majors have in common? On March 10 they collaborated on transforming Jackson School student research on pressing world issues into actionable data. Ambassador of

Originally posted on March 16th 2017 by Beth Do “It took two decades of war between the USSR and the U.S. to understand that nuclear weapons alone are not a credible deterrence to conventional warfare,” said John M. Deutch to over 150 students, faculty and community members who filled Walker Ames in Kane Hall to capacity

POSTED BY: ODED ORON A group of Jackson School undergraduate students together with Washington state’s Tulalip Tribes launched a new interactive digital story “Finding Common Ground in a World of Environmental Change” to over 50 UW students, faculty and local communities who gathered Monday evening at UW’s Intellectual House to learn more about environmental issues affecting the

Performing arts and music as a bridge for cultural understanding Article by Aleenah Ansari, Feb 27, 2017 On Saturday night, the stage of Meany Hall was full of Bollywood performers from UW Kahaani who shifted between Bharatanatyam, a classical dance form from South India, to a hip hop section featuring the Kanye West track “Mercy.” The audience

Article by Michael Kim Last Thursday, the Simpson Center for the Humanities hosted a talk given by Iruka Okeke, a professor of pharmaceutical microbiology at the University of Ibadan in Nigeria. Johanna Crane, an adjunct assistant professor who studies global health sciences, introduced Okeke. Crane described the emphasis of Okeke’s last book on adequate diagnostics

“It seems that bi-cultural identities are just as common here as they are in the U.S.” Posted by Robyn Davis Center for Global Studies FLAS Fellow Henry Milander, an undergraduate student in Business, International Studies, and Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, used his FLAS fellowships to study Arabic in Amman, Jordan and Fez, Morocco in

Posted by ROBYN DAVIS Are humans necessarily a terrestrial species?  Hannah Bassett (Marine & Environmental Affairs) argues that humans are equally aquatic.  Hannah is a Global Studies and Southeast Asia FLAS fellow in Tagalog.  Read her article in the School of Marine and Environmental Affairs student blog, Currents, here. FLAS Fellowships are funded by the International

The importance of understanding the U.S. in the world “Immersing ourselves in foreign affairs is even more important today than it was a few months ago,” said Mr. John Hempelmann, president of the board at the Henry M. Jackson Foundation to over 100 UW students, faculty and members of the public gathered in Kane Hall

The United Arab Emirates: Power, Politics, and Policymaking (Routledge, December 2016) by Affiliate Professor Kristian Coates Ulrichsen charts the various processes of state formation and political and economic development that have enabled the UAE to emerge as a significant regional power and major player in the post Arab Spring reordering of Middle East and North African Politics, as

Posted by: MONIQUE THORMANN “Turkey is going through a difficult and quite significant change,” said Henri Barkey, a public policy expert, former U.S. government official and director of the middle east program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in D.C. to over 150 students, faculty and members of the public on the evening of