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September 16, 2024

Nigeria
The Unmaking of an Elite

The great tragedy of Nigerian tertiary education is the debasement of its professoriate.

National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) members staged a protest against prolonged strike action of the Academic Staff Union of Universities in Lagos, Nigeria on September 19, 2022.
Blog Post by Ebenezer Obadare Africa in Transition

January 14, 2022

Women and Women's Rights
Women This Week: First Woman Nominated to Pakistan’s Supreme Court

Welcome to “Women Around the World: This Week,” a series that highlights noteworthy news related to women and U.S. foreign policy. This week’s post covers January 8 to January 14.

A man rides a bicycle past the Supreme Court building in Islamabad.
Blog Post by Haydn Welch Women Around the World

January 23, 2015

Americas
Leveraging Tech Innovations in Development

Over the past decade, technology has begun to revolutionize industries ranging from education and healthcare to financial services and commerce. These transformations are not limited to the developed…

ID Card Pakistan
Blog Post by Shannon K. O'Neil Development Channel

January 18, 2012

Nigeria
Nigeria: Beyond the Fuel Subsidy

In the shameless promotion category, I did an article, “The End of Nigeria’s Strike May Not Calm Oil Markets,” that appeared Monday in the electronic version of Foreign Affairs. It looks at the demon…

People protest on a street in Nigeria's northern city of Kano before the suspension of a nationwide strike by labour unions, January 16, 2012.
Blog Post by John Campbell Africa in Transition

January 20, 2012

Iran
Weekend Reading: Economic Challenges, Constitutional Lessons, and an Iranian Scenario

Adeel Malik and Bassem Awadallah comment on the economic challenges in a ‘post-Arab Spring’ Middle East. Abdel Moneim Said argues that the American ruling on sharia in Oklahoma may hold a lesson for…

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Blog Post by Steven A. Cook From the Potomac to the Euphrates