We’ve had some great discussions and pieces this month, not least last week’s DC event with Harvard geopolitics legend Joseph Nye and RAND Corporation’s (and PS21 global fellow) Ali Wyne.
We had another great event yesterday in Washington with Omar Hamid and Negar Razavi, again both PS21 global fellows) on crime and counterterrorism in Karachi. Takeaways from the former are available below, the latter will be published next week.
Next week’s London joint discussion with Young Professionals in Foreign Policy on foreign perspectives on the UK General Election is already full, although you can email me to go on the waiting list. We still have space for the April 29 discussion on the Middle East however.
Here are our upcoming events:
April 29: London discussion on the future of the Middle East, with Alia Brahimi from Oxford University, former UK diplomat Joseph Walker-Cousins and Metsa Rahimi from Deutsche Bank
April 29: DC event on the “UK Election, does it really matter?” with Former EU Official Sir Michael Leigh (chair), George Washington University’s Scheherazade Rehman, Peter Foster of The Daily Telegraph and Dan Roberts of The Guardian
May 7: London Election Networking Drinks
May 18: London discussion on Social Media and British Politics, with Tim Hardy from Beyond Clicktivism, Sandy Schumann at Oxford University, and Jonn Elledge from New Statesman/Citimetric
Here are the latest pieces posted on the PS21 website this week (or those of our partners):
PS21 Africa Editor and Contributor Emmanuel Akinwotu writes for Reuters on the challenges for Nigeria after the election and a year on from the #bringbackourgirls campaign
PS21 Global Fellow Jennifer Abrahamson writes on the 10th anniversary of her friend Marla’s death and the ongoing challenge of keeping track of civilian casualties in conflict
PS21 Global Fellow, Tim Hardy writes on the ever more pervasive surveillance techniques and the chilling effect they have in human rights
PS21 Global Fellow Frank Spring writes on the rise and rise of national innovation foundations as part of a wider report with Steven Ezell and Katarzyna Bitka comparing them across several countries
And finally, we have the transcript, takeaways and video from the April 2 Joseph Nye event in Washington DC
Also good to see the Brookings Institution quoting and linking to our conflict death toll report in this posting earlier this month.
A comprehensive list of previous postings is listed below:
April 2015
10/04/2015 University attack brings stark lessons for Kenya- Edward Wanyonyi
09/04/2015 Organising in the 21st Century: Linda Tirado
05/04/2015 The Islamic State in Libya – Alia Brahimi
04/04/2015 DC Event: Crime and Counterterrorism in Karachi
04/04/2015 London Event: The UK Election – an outsider’s perspective
02/04/2015 The 21st Century Clash of Christian and Islamic Cultures- David Murrin
01/04/2015 Deepnet: is the “bad web” good or evil?: Michael Gillespie
March 2015
30/03/2015 Walking the Tightrope: Turkey in the New Middle East – Enea Gjoza
28/03/2015 Burying Richard III, England’s last post-apocalyptic warlord – Peter Apps
28/03/2015 Yemen heads down Syria’s path – Hayat Alvi
27/03/2015 How Boko Haram changed Nigerian Politics – Emmanuel Akinwotu
26/03/2015 Assessing the New US National Security Strategy- Ali Wyne
25/03/2015 PS21 at Two (Months) – Peter Apps
23/03/2015 Breaking a decades-long trend, the world gets more violent
22/03/2015 The Kurdistan Region of Iraq and the Arab Spring – Lara Fatah
21/03/2015 Spike in Media Coverage of PS21 Study on Spike in Death Tolls
19/03/2015 Where the West went wrong in Libya – Joseph Walker-Cousins
17/03/2015 PS21 Announces 10 New Global Fellows
17/03/2015 Death Toll in 2014’s Bloodiest Wars Sharply Up on Previous Year
17/03/2015 Conversation with Hussain Haqqani, Former Pakistani Ambassador to US
16/03/2015 To Defeat the Islamic State, look to the Bolsheviks – Jack Goldstone
13/03/2015 Anonymous vs. ISIS: “Post-Government Organizations”- Ryan Hagemann
11/03/2015 The New ‘Long War’ with Russia – Philip Thicknesse
11/03/2015 Introducing PS21 World – Peter Apps
08/03/2015 The cultural outpouring fuelled by Syrian war- Miriam Cooke
07/03/2015 DC Event Arab Spring@4: What Next? Key Takeaways/ Media
06/03/2015 For some young Syrians, war brings unexpected freedom – Rasha Elass
04/03/2015 London Discussion on Mideast Social Media: Key takeaways/ media
03/03/2015 After Arab Spring, Challenges for Islamic NGOs – Amjad Saleem
01/03/2015 London Discussion: South Asia Geopolitics from Afpak to Sri Lanka
01/03/2015 PS21 a Month In: Update from Executive Director Peter Apps
February 2015
27/02/2015 Iraq: The Unexpected Victim of the Arab Spring – John Drake
26/02/2015 The Fight for Sexual Rights in Egypt – Dalia Abd El Hameed
25/05/2015 Social Media in the Era of ISIS – Sultan al-Qassemi
24/02/2015 The Arab Spring and the Limits of American Power – Ari Ratner
24/02/2015 The Arab Spring@4: Introducing PS21 MIDEAST
22/02/2015 London Discussion on Greece, Eurozone: Key Takeaways
12/02/2015 DC Revolutions Event: Key Takeaways/ Video
12/02/2015 PS21 Global Fellow Battles Ebola in Sierra Leone
01/02/2015 DC Superpower Discussion: Key Takeaways/ Video
January 2015
30/01/2015 London Cyber Discussion: Key Takeaways
27/01/2015 PS21 Announces First 50 Global Fellows, International Advisors
26/01/2015 Reuters Correspondent Peter Apps Joins PS21 as Executive Director
22/01/2015 Introducing PS21
Project for the Study of the 21st Century 