The world economy is undergoing the largest change since the end of the Cold War. Join us Wednesday at 5:30PM to hear Stanford Professor Maggiori explain how governments apply geoeconomic pressure using their economies' trade and financial relationships. zurl.co/N2zeK
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Cuba and the United States: What Lies Ahead? Join us Thursday at 5PM in person at Dartmouth or online to hear former U.S. Ambassadors Jeffrey DeLaurentis and Peter DeShazo discuss the recent evolution of the U.S./Cuba relationship. zurl.co/RjStk
Who Makes Peace Now? Join us online or in person at Dartmouth on Sep 28 to hear former US Assistant Secretary of State Anne Witkowsky and Elizabeth McClintock '86, Magro Family Distinguished Fellow in Int'l Affairs, discuss Diplomacy Conflict, and the Changing International World. zurl.co/7rNf2
Marisol Maddox, Senior Fellow with the Institute of Arctic Studies, joined Deutsche Welle News to discuss the new agreement between the United States with Denmark and Greenland, and what it means for stability and security in the Arctic. zurl.co/sdxEL
What's really in Trump's defense pact with Denmark and Greenland | DW News
Trump repeatedly talked about making Greenland part of the United States. Now he's celebrating a new defense pact with Denmark and Greenland. We speak to Arc...
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Writing for Hoover's 'The Commons Dispatch,' Emily Blanchard and her co-author warn against the unintended consequences of trade interventions in a world of global value chains. zurl.co/Py3vT #dartmouthdavidson
Unintended Consequences: Trade Intervention in a World of Global Value Chains
Actual protection, whatever its merits, can diverge wildly from what was intended. Responsible economic statecraft calls for new discipline.
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"Diplomacy is never a reward for good behavior, and negotiation is not normalization. It is an instrument of national power." Matthew Rojansky, Davidson Institute faculty affiliate, writing in Foreign Policy. zurl.co/tBtdo #intsec #dartmouthdavidson
The United States Must Prepare for More Than One Russian Future
Managing the Ukraine conflict is just the beginning of negotiations.
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At Climate Week in NYC, The Institute of Arctic Studies is partnering with the University of the Arctic and the Consulate General of Finland to host Circular Innovation and Resilient Futures: Insights from the Arctic. zurl.co/ok4ec #dartmouth #arctic #climatechange
Mosquitoes in Iceland. “This is kind of a little warning sign that things are on the move around the Arctic. We need to understand what’s going on," says Lauren Culler, Senior Fellow at the Institute of Arctic Studies, in the Christian Science Monitor. zurl.co/x7PFV #dartmouth #climatechange
Long mosquito-free, Iceland on alert against buggy invaders
The geography and climate of Iceland have prevented mosquitoes from establishing a foothold. But recent discoveries in the wilds have made locals wary.
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Writing in the Chicago Tribune, our Distinguished Lecturer Elizabeth Shackelford considers the implications of rapid climate change in light of the recent disaster in #Nepal. zurl.co/9S8Ai #dartmouth
Elizabeth Shackelford: Nepal’s disaster is today’s terrifying climate change reality
Warmer temperatures are destabilizing glaciers, such as the one in Nepal, that have stood for tens of thousands of years.
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Dartmouth Professors Jennifer Lind & Daryl Press explore the emerging debate in the United States about US policy toward Europe. It's an opportunity, they argue, giving Americans real choice; providing a range of coherent and serious views. zurl.co/uw16C #dartmouthdavidson #dartmouth
Europe Policy is Up for Grabs
For the first time in a generation, Americans are actually debating it
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Marisol Maddox, Senior Fellow with the Arctic Studies, talks to Deutsche Welle about the possibility that Europe may finally be waking up to the strategic importance of the Arctic. zurl.co/poxJd #arctic #dartarctic #dartmouth
"The war on terror did not create American authoritarianism, but it certainly reduced the startup costs of an authoritarian presidency." Steven Simon, Distinguished Visiting Fellow, And Daniel Benjamin, Former Dickey Center Director, writing in Foreign Affairs. zurl.co/ArDSn #dartmouthdavidson
The Other War on Terror
9/11 and the unraveling of American democracy.
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Marisol Maddox, senior fellow with the Institute of Arctic Studies, joined Deutsche Welle’s Hanna Hummel to explain why Norway’s seizure of a Russian ship off Svalbard has Moscow crying piracy — and how the Ukraine war is reshaping law and politics in the Far North. zurl.co/ViYUV #dartmouth
In an opinion piece on the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks publlshed by Centre Daily Times, Steven Simon writes that “the country looks to be edging, awkwardly and without much self-awareness, toward a reckoning it has avoided for a generation.” zurl.co/jsAvc (📷Wally Gobetz)
Join us on Sep 22 from 12:30–2:30pm EST during #UNGA81 for “Building a Health Workforce: Ensuring Continuity of Care amid Crises,” a side event exploring how investments in health workers can strengthen resilient health systems and sustain essential care during and after crises. zurl.co/vlHO1
Civil Societies, Uncivil States by Suparna Chaudry, out now. Exploring why governments around the world have turned against the nongovernmental organizations they once welcomed—and how they choose their methods of repression. #dartmouthdavidson
"At a time when the public is sensitive to affordability concerns and feels insecurity about their jobs, disrupting trade with a close and popular ally creates challenges for the GOP in these and other states.” Prof. Douglas Irwin in HuffPost on Canada tariffs. zurl.co/V7ate #dartmouthdavidson
Trump's Trade War With Canada Could Spell Disaster For Senate Republican Candidates
Four competitive Senate races are in states that border Canada. If tariffs raise prices, guess which party undecided voters are likely to blame?
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AI should be managed like nuclear weapons. In her most recent Chicago Tribune piece, Elizabeth Shackelford argues that the recent escape of AI agents from their testing environment absent human knowledge was a reminder of the vast potential and great risk that AI poses to humanity. zurl.co/931FV
Elizabeth Shackelford: AI should be managed like nuclear weapons
The AI threat could be even greater than nuclear weapons since agents can operate independent of and contrary to human action or direction.
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Art History professor Nick Camerlenghi and a team of Dartmouth students have begun excavating the Convento del Colombaio, a ruined convent in the hills Tuscany. Dartmouth serves as lead institution for a team drawn from eight universities and research centers. zurl.co/b8PLA #Dartmouth
With Dickey Center Support: Art Historians Dig Toward the Thirteenth Century
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“Its like not allowing your primary care doctor to tell you how you’re doing.” Melody Brown Burkins, Director of the Institute of Arctic Studies, quoted in WaPo in response to the Trump administration's ending of support for the Arctic Report Card. zurl.co/SYBLt (Photo: Alice Li/WaPo)
Dartmouth’s Matt Druckenmiller Joins Norwegian Prime Minister to Announce International Polar Year Coordination Office. "This coordination office gives us a foundation to advance science that is grounded in genuine partnership as we navigate rapid change together.” zurl.co/yMFwW #dartmoutharctic
Dartmouth’s Druckenmiller Joins Norwegian Prime Minister to Announce International Polar Year Coordination Office
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In her latest opinion piece for the Chicago Tribune, Elizabeth Shackelford takes issue with the Trump administration's claim that we're at imminent risk of a communist takeover. zurl.co/fmHvG
Elizabeth Shackelford: The only communist threat is coming from inside the White House
Why has the "Red Scare" returned now? Because when a party in power is deeply unpopular, it must find another boogeyman.
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On the Blue Blaze substack, Government Professor Jennifer Lind explores the context behind the recent kerfuffle over signage at the Smithsonian. zurl.co/IQueF #dartmouthdavidson
Fight at the Museum
America Worst vs America First
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Over at Law & Liberty, Edwin van de Haar reviews Stephen Brooks' "The Political Economy of Security," highlighting some of its arguments, including that trade has a mixed influence on security and that there's no indication that financial flows influence the likelihood of conflict. zurl.co/7sTgv
War, Peace, and Free Trade – Edwin van de Haar
Adam Smith understood two centuries ago that commerce was no guarantee of peace.
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Michèle Flournoy, former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, and W. Scott Gould, former Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs, sat down with our War & Peace Fellows to talk career paths across think tanks, public service, and consulting. #dartmouthdavidson #intsec #learnfromthebest
Alea Kahele '27 at work at the Kluane Lakes Research Station in Yukon, Canada. As part of her Stefansson Fellowship, she's been engaged in First Nations outreach work and conducting research on quantifying snow, ice, and river concentrations of "forever-chemicals” like PFAs.
Douglas Irwin, professor of economics, on Bloomberg discussing the Trump administration's latest tariffs. "zurl.co/guzUv #dartmouthdavidson
Our War & Peace Fellows sat down with Mallory Stewart, for a wide-ranging discussion spanning deterrence, defense spending, and international law, as well as emerging global security challenges from Iran's nuclear program to space security and ballistic missile defense.
Stephen G. Brooks, professor of government, and Ben Vagle '22, argue in Foreign Affairs that the United States retains significant economic leverage over China despite recent trade tensions. zurl.co/egaGe #dartmouthdavidson #china #foreignaffairs
America Still Has the Upper Hand Over China
Washington can win if it works with allies.
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Calling the administration's reliance on force "embarrassing, wasteful & harmful," Elizabeth Shackelford argues that military actions in Iran, Cuba, & the Caribbean have inflicted civilian suffering while failing to advance U.S. national security objectives. zurl.co/EsQJJ #dartmouth #cuba #iran
Elizabeth Shackelford: The Trump administration’s aggression abroad is both ruthless and ineffective
The United States is imposing pointless suffering on the people of Cuba and Iran.
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