“I don’t want to say mind-blowing, but I can’t think of another word to describe the experience,” reflected Rumbidzai Masango (MPA ’15) on her summer with the Open Society Internship for Rights and Governance (OSIRG). This past summer, five School of Public Policy (SPP) students participated in OSIRG, a highly competitive program that allows selected students from top public policy schools to undertake six- to eight-week internships at policy- and rights-oriented NGOs around the world.
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September 29, 2014
School of Public Policy (SPP) Dean Wolfgang H. Reinicke is one of three guest editors, with Associate Director of the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) Philipp Rotmann and GPPi Director Thorsten Benner, of a special issue of Conflict, Security and Development. “Major Powers and the Contested Evolution of a ‘Responsibility to Protect’” contains contributions from a team of researchers from Brazil, China, Europe, and India.
September 23, 2014
Gerald Knaus, founding chairman of the European Stability Initiative, delivered a wide-ranging, thoughtful, and passionate address at Central European University (CEU) on September 18th. Hosted by the School of Public Policy at CEU, the lecture inaugurated the Frontiers of Democracy initiative, a series of events that the University will be organizing over the next two years to promote open debate about the nature of constitutional democracy.
August 22, 2014
How did Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán transform from the young “ultimate anarcho-liberal” leader of the early post-Soviet years to the heavy-handed autocrat we know today? In her latest Foreign policy article, “The Autocrat Inside the EU,” SPP’s Center for Media & Communication Studies researcher Amy Brouillette argues Orbán, as a “consummate politician,” is motivated by his quest for power.
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