Section: The Huffington Post (USA)
It’s About Human Rights: Social Media Platforms Must Safeguard Citizen-Generated Content
Content shared on social media has ever-increasing potential to be used as evidence of wartime atrocities and human rights violations. However, traditional social media models are stifling activists and burying evidence. There is a need for more tools and technologies built specifically for activists.User-generated content shared over social...
Confluence of Crises: The View From Munich
Co-authored with Richard Burt Since 1962, the year after the Berlin Wall was constructed, the annual Munich Security Conference (MSC) has helped propel conversations on many critical issues: the Cold War; nuclear arms control; the fall of that Wall and German reunification; 9-11; the Iraq War. Two years ago, the conference was all about NSA and...
How U.S. Sidelines Some of the Corrupt in the Former Soviet Union
Image: Stock Photo. FreeImages.com/Evgenia Pronina Most residents of the former Soviet Union hate the corruption that prevents everyone but a tiny minority from having a shot at a better standard of living. In a sop to the widespread anger about corruption, some countries in the region — notably Russia and Armenia — have set up...
Korea and NATO: rising to the Northeast Asian and global challenges
The following keynote speech was delivered on February 11, 2016, at the Security Talks at the Prince Carl Palace event in Munich, Germany. State Minister Huber, Ambassador Scharioth, Ambassador Ischinger, Distinguished guests, Ladies and gentlemen, Good evening, and thank you for the warm welcome and introduction. I am truly privileged to address...
Michael Ignatieff: I’m Angry With Americans for Being Bystanders to the European Refugee Crisis
Being a Canadian politician of Russian descent, Harvard’s Michael Ignatieff talks bluntly with Alexander Görlach about the role the U.S. should play in the European refugee crisis.Görlach: What’s your perspective of what’s going on in Europe?Ignatieff: What you have is the dissolution of state order in the Middle East, and...
This Week in World War I, February 20-26, 1916
German troops advancing during the Battle for Verdun The Western Front 1916: The Battle for Verdun The initial German invasion of France had been stopped at the First Battle of the Marne in September 1914. The attempt of each side to outflank the other ended at the Battle of the Yser and the First Battle of Ypres. As 1914 came to a close each...
What Russia’s Failing Economy Means For Putin’s Legacy And Military Ambitions
Every week, The WorldPost asks an expert to shed light on a topic driving headlines around the world. In this edition, we speak with Sergey Aleksashenko, former deputy chairman of the Central Bank of Russia and a nonresident senior fellow at Brookings Institution, about the national and international implications of Russia’s weakening...
World-Renowned Economist Sergei Guriev on the Russian Economy: Takeaways from his Speech at the Oxford Guild
On January 27, 2016, Sergei Guriev, a leading Russian economist and Professor of Economics at Sciences Po University in Paris, made a speech to the Oxford Guild entitled “Whither the Russian Economy.” During his speech, Guriev shared his thoughts on Russia’s economic growth prospects, the current economic crisis in Russia, and...
Russia’s Future Lies With Europe and the West
It is a worrying time to survey European geopolitics from across the Atlantic. Like many high officials, the Polish foreign minister is now calling for NATO troops to deploy to the border with Russia. Russia is now suing Ukraine over unpaid debt, and small nations like Serbia and Armenia are trying to navigate between Russia and the West over...
Cutting a Deal with Russia
I’ve been working with the Gaidar Institute in Moscow for the last three years helping their fine economists research Russia’s fiscal policy. We’ve been studying Russia’s long-run fiscal position, its projected demographic change, and its economic transition. Like the U.S., Russia faces major challenges in maintaining its...
