Several programs at the Council have extensive involvement with the Middle East, North Africa and Egypt in particular. Read SSRC coverage of the Arab Spring.
Selected Content:
Seyla Benhabib on the Arab Spring in the Public Sphere Formation Essay Series
Essays by Fellows:
“I Do Not Fear from this Uprising but I Fear for It” by Omar Cheta
“Breaking the Fear Barrier of Mubarak’s Regime” by Mohamed Elshahed
“More Than A Political Revolution” by Samantha Iyer
The Next Generation Social Sciences in Africa program offers fellowships to nurture the intellectual development and increase retention of early-career faculty in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda.
The Forum on Health, Environment and Development (FORHEAD) organized its third annual conference in Beijing in partnership with the Institute of Geographic Science and Nature Resources Research, CAS in early November.
AAS-SSRC Dissertation Workshop Series, Drugs, Security and Democracy Fellowship, DPDF Student Fellowship Competition, Postdoctoral Fellowship for Transregional Research: Inter-Asian Contexts and Connections.
by David Held and Kristian Coates Ulrichsen
Ten years have passed since the explosion of violence in the heartlands of the West on September 11, 2001. The attacks of 9/11 posed fundamental questions about the principles, rules and means by which we live, conduct foreign policy, and manage relations with others.
by Dena Plemmons and Robert Albro
One of the first signs under which the Obama administration was placed was that of a “new era of responsibility.” We assume that he meant “social responsibility.” And this has been accompanied by regular calls for increased transparency in government and for the revitalization of ethics as much more a part of our public life, in government, business, religion, and science.
by Daniel P. Aldrich
At 2:46 p.m. on March 11, 2011, a magnitude 8.9 earthquake, known as the Higashi Nihon Daishinsai (Eastern Japan Great Earthquake Disaster), struck roughly fifty miles off the coast of Japan’s mainland.
by Andrew Lakoff
The eerie timing of the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster, only a month after the Obama administration announced plans to expand offshore drilling, has been widely noted. But a second coincidence is equally striking.
by Humeira Iqtidar
The intertwining of local and international, political and economic interests is sidelined by blaming nature for the extent of the devastation caused by these floods.
by Scott Frickel and M. Bess Vincent
In the wake of widespread physical destruction, states of knowledge tip toward ignorance. Questions multiply and answers evaporate. Certainty recedes like a tidal surge.
by Mark J. VanLandingham
We should not expect the rapid rebound of the Vietnamese fishermen affected by the BP catastrophe that we witnessed among the urban Vietnamese community post-Katrina.
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