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Ron Ozio
Director, Media Relations
ozio@upenn.edu
UN High Commissioner Al Hussein delivered the keynote at Penn’s Perry World House April 10 conference on international migration and refugees.
Ian Lustick, a professor in Penn’s Political Science Department and a leading authority on international terrorism, says this weekend’s atrocities in Douma can be attributed to a Syrian attack. We asked him to elaborate on a few details.
As part of the 2018 Global Shifts Colloquium, the Perry World House panel will explore the impact of global refugee migration on the political, social, and environmental climate.
This year’s David and Lyn Silfen University Forum focused on “People and Policy Adrift: A 21st Century Framework for Asylum Seekers, Refugees, and Immigration Policy.”
Nearly 8,000 miles from the University of Pennsylvania’s campus in Philadelphia, eight students immersed themselves in “The Performing Arts of Modern South India” through a year-long course that included a 12-day visit to India and continues through the spring.
A political science major and student fellow at Penn's Perry World House is working with a team of student fellows to construct a website showing how cities deal with an influx of climate change refugees.
A political science professor at the University of Pennsylvania who has been studying Russian politics for more than a quarter century is in the midst of wrapping up two books.
Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and former President of Mexico Felipe Calderón engaged in a wide-ranging discussion about global and national issues during the inaugural Penn Biden Global Leaders Dialogue.
Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor Beth Simmons, a global affairs expert, is turning her attention to understanding how the walling, crossing, and securing of international borders affects human rights.
Ron Ozio
Director, Media Relations
ozio@upenn.edu
Amy Gadsden of Penn Global says that American interest in studying in China is declining due to foreign businesses closing their offices there and Beijing’s draconian governing style.
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Thomas J. Shattuck of Perry World House says that greater interest in the Philippines by the U.S. and Japan will have a positive impact on Taiwan’s security.
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Kimberly St. Julian-Varnon of the School of Arts & Sciences says that Western countries have little practical leverage to push Russia off its authoritarian path after Alexei Navalny’s death, given the economic and diplomatic sanctions already levied against Vladimir Putin.
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In a co-authored Op-Ed, Sarah Paoletti of Penn Carey Law says that U.S. immigration and deportation systems are failing to adequately protect people in need of asylum.
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Neysun Mahboubi of Penn Global says that China’s persecution of Uyghur Muslims doesn’t resonate as strongly in the Muslim world as the Palestinian issue.
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Mauro Guillén of the Wharton School says that global investors are already weary about rising tensions between China and the West, as well as the country’s sluggish growth and large corporate debt.
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