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June 16, 2016
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Mexico poses a number of questions including an ongoing and extremely violent war on drugs, high levels of inequality and poverty, and questions of identity and immigration to its wealthy neighbor, the U.S., said Associate Dean Julia Buxton.

June 9, 2016
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“This new era is totally different from previous eras because of the recent Nuclear Agreement,” asserted Senior Global Challenges Fellow* Mohammad Hassan Khani.

June 8, 2016
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SPP Associate Professor Martin Kahanec and co-editor Klaus F. Zimmermann address some of the most controversial topics related to EU migration today in their latest volume Labor Migration, EU Enlargement, and the Great Recession. "In this book, we look at how the eastern enlargements of the EU in 2004, 2007, and 2013 have affected the EU's ability to weather economic shocks and their impact on national labor markets and welfare systems.

June 3, 2016
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That was the conclusion of Ricardo Soares de Oliveira during a public lecture at the School of Public Policy at CEU on May 26. Soares de Oliveira, an associate professor at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, explained that the post-war reconstruction of Angola ended with the collapse of oil prices in 2014 and that "the future is uncertain."