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November 6, 2014
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This semester, some SPP students are benefiting from an invaluable opportunity to learn about the complex relationship between Iran and the West, and to discuss and debate their nuclear dispute with former diplomats from Iran and the United States. They are enrolled in “Iran and the West: Crisis Policymaking in Practice.”  The course, led by Visiting Professor Jon Greenwald, a former senior U.S.

October 16, 2014
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“Quiet diplomacy is a common tool to promote human rights but because it happens behind closed doors, we usually know very little about it. Of course it can be useful, yet that is not always the case,” explains SPP Visiting Professor Katrin Kinzelbach. Her book, The EU's Human Rights Dialogue with China: Quiet Diplomacy and its Limits was just published by Routledge.

May 21, 2014
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Troubled by religious, ideological, sectarian, and caste-based violence, India ranks among the most violent countries in the world.

April 30, 2014
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Voting in the 2014 Indian elections are running from April 7. What will these elections mean for the world's largest democracy?