Ambassador Susan Rice visits the Ford School on MLK Jr. Day
February 4, 2020
On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the Ford School hosted Ambassador Susan Rice, former United Nations Ambassador and former U.S. National Security Advisor, for a conversation with Dean Michael S....
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Weiser Diplomacy Center launch series makes a big splash
January 9, 2020
The Ford School’s new Weiser Diplomacy Center officially launched this fall with visits from an all-star lineup of leaders in foreign affairs.
A lecture by Stephen Biegun, U.S. special...
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Withdrawing from the Flores Agreement could keep immigration lawyers in dark, Vieux says
September 5, 2019
Immigration policy has been rapidly changing for the past few years. From increasing caseloads to fast-paced legal changes and their implications on clients, immigration lawyers have a lot to...
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Slate of prominent speakers launches Weiser Diplomacy Center
November 26, 2019
A lecture by Stephen Biegun, U.S. special representative for North Korea, will kick off a series of talks planned for the fall at the new Weiser Diplomacy Center housed at the Gerald R. Ford...
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Yusuf Neggers discusses latest research with VoxDev
May 31, 2019
Ensuring voters are well informed about candidates’ backgrounds is a hot topic of late, and in India that focus is on past criminality. There, upwards of nine percent of legislators have faced...
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Professor Melvyn Levitsky warns that the end of INF treaty “could lead to a new arms race”
February 18, 2019
The U.S. and Russia are inciting collective déjà vu. With the demise of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty, memories of the Cold War are returning to the zeitgeist. The Mirror’s...
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Lou Fintor new U.S. State Department Diplomat in Residence
August 29, 2019
Lou Fintor is the Ford School’s new Diplomat in Residence (DIR), a U.S. State Department Foreign Service Officer offering State Department career, internship, and fellowship information...
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When interests clash, John Ciorciari says hybrid courts are “prone to crash”
February 18, 2019
When done well, international tribunals play an integral role in governmental cooperation and the promotion of human rights. But this is a tricky balance, and the costs—both in financial and human...
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William G. Rich says U.S. sanctions on Iran should have banks investing in cybersecurity
November 7, 2018
With the imminent threat of re-imposing sanctions on Iran, Ford School alumnus William G. Rich (MPP '09) says U.S. banks should buckle down on security—cybersecurity, that is. In his October 25,...
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Melvyn Levitsky tracks parallels between Brazil’s political future and the U.S.
October 11, 2018
Ford School Professor Melvyn Levitsky, who previously served as the U.S. ambassador to Brazil, was asked to weigh in on the country’s upcoming election by Folha de São Paulo. Folha, for short, is...
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