Two SIS Students Receive 2021 Charles B. Rangel Graduate Fellowships
Following their completion of the Rangel Graduate Fellowship program, Zizhan Luo (SIS/BA, CAS/BS ’19) and Tammy Nguyen (SIS/BA ’21) will receive appointments as Foreign Service Officers in the US Department of State....
GW Names New Dean for Elliott School of International Affairs
Alyssa Ayres, senior fellow for India, Pakistan and South Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations, is a respected foreign policy practitioner, author and researcher who has worked across multiple sectors....
Spotlight on the Sanford Class of 2020
Sanford students, both undergraduate and graduate, are always amazing. They come from all over the world, and from nearby neighborhoods in Durham. They start organizations, volunteer in the community, earn awards and develop friendships that have the potential to last a lifetime. This class had the extra challenge of an extraordinary spring. Here are some of the stories of the Class of 2020....
Dramatic drop in remittances puts struggling communities around the world at risk
As the toll of the COVID-19 economic shutdown reverberates around the world, money sent home by foreign workers is drying up....
Ali examines rising U.S.-China tensions over COVID-19 origins
Blame narratives over the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic are deepening rifts between the U.S. and China, according to Javed Ali, Towsley Policymaker in Residence at the Ford School. In a co-authored op-ed featured in The Hill on April 23, Ali asserts that these rising tensions added to an already weak relationship, and “risks igniting a new Cold War.”...
Ali warns of national security implications of COVID-19 response
The response to the spread of COVID-19 has not only “revealed deep shortcomings in America’s emergency preparedness and national medical response systems,” but also has broader implications for national security(link is external), according to Ford School Towsley Policymaker in Residence Javed Ali. As the nation’s attention is focused on fighting the pandemic, domestic and foreign adversaries could seize on the moment, as an opportunity to conduct “attacks against physical targets, undermine public confidence in government through disinformation and propaganda, disrupt medical and public health response efforts or create further economic uncertainty through commodity or currency manipulations,” he wrote in The Hill on March 13....