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A quarter century after the fall of communism throughout the former Soviet empire, democracy has lost much of the ground it had seemed to gain during the 1990’s. In retrospect, Ukraine’s 2004 “Orange Revolution” was the high water mark...
Read more »One of America’s – more precisely, one of Philadelphia’s — greatest contributions to the world is freedom of conscience, the idea that people should be free to practice their religion – or not to practice at all. Today, as...
Read more »Hosted and Cosponsored by Gwen Borowsky, CEO, National Liberty Museum 5:30 p.m. Registration; 5:45 p.m. Lecture Earlier this year, Clinton Watts described ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham) as the most dangerous terrorist group in the world, bar...
Read more »Jordan, the key U.S. ally bordering territories held by the Islamic State and comprising a central part of its desired Sunni empire, is precariously situated on the frontline of the ISIL’s violent campaign. Ironically, one of ISIL’s predecessor organizations,...
Read more »The world’s largest democracy, India has just completed the world’s most complex national elections, and those elections have produced a political revolution. The landslide victory of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), led by Narendra Modi signals a major shift...
Read more »Part of the Stanley and Arlene Ginsburg Lecture Series For more than a decade, America has been waging a new kind of war against the financial networks of rogue regimes, proliferators, terrorist groups, and criminal syndicates. Juan Zarate, a...
Read more »Despite their longevity, the mutual security arrangements between the United States and its Asian partners are now under increased scrutiny on both sides of the Pacific Ocean. These products of the Cold War were created under conditions that have...
Read more »In this session of Geopolitics, Granieri and deLisle engage in a broad-ranging discussion of China’s domestic politics, its economic future, the prospects for reform, key human rights issues, disputes with virtually all of its neighbors, the perpetual issue of...
Read more »Hosted and Cosponsored by the National Liberty Museum Victory over Al Qaeda has been declared more than once, and still it lives and thrives. Though Al Qaeda is not what it was 25 years ago – having undergone...
Read more »The Arab media landscape today is as crowded and complex as that of any region of the world – with local, regional, and international broadcasts in Arabic beaming into the region from China to Russia to Israel and the...
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