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SUMMARY:India in the COVID-19 Era - Can Modi Turn the Tide with Milan Vaishnav
DESCRIPTION:Milan Vaishnav is a senior fellow and director of the South Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. His primary research focus is the political economy of India\, and he examines issues such as corruption and governance\, state capacity\, distributive politics\, and electoral behavior. \nHe is the author of When Crime Pays: Money and Muscle in Indian Politics (Yale University Press and HarperCollins India\, 2017)\, which was awarded the Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay New India Foundation book prize for the best non-fiction book on contemporary India published in 2017. He is also co-editor (with Devesh Kapur) of Costs of Democracy: Political Finance in India (Oxford University Press\, 2018) and (with Pratap Bhanu Mehta and Devesh Kapur) of Rethinking Public Institutions in India (Oxford University Press\, 2017). His work has been published in scholarly journals such as Asian Survey\, Governance\, India Review\, India Policy Forum\, Studies in Indian Politics\, and PS: Political Science and Politics. He is a regular contributor to several Indian publications. \nPreviously\, he worked at the Center for Global Development\, where he served as a postdoctoral research fellow\, the Center for Strategic and International Studies\, and the Council on Foreign Relations. He is an adjunct professor in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and has previously taught at Columbia and George Washington Universities. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University. \nThis event starts at 12:00 PM on Thursday\, September 10th. \nMembers are invited to join by Zoom and participate in the live Q&A. Zoom details will be emailed in our weekly email newsletter. If you are a member and have not received this email\, please send a message to contactus@wacreading.org. \nhttps://www.facebook.com/wacreading/posts/4381915085183407
URL:https://wacreading.org/event/india-with-milan-vaishnev/
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SUMMARY:NATO from the American Perspective with Ron Granieri
DESCRIPTION:Ron Granieri is an FPRI Templeton Fellow\, the Executive Director of FPRI’s Center for the Study of America and the West\, Editor of the Center’s E-publication The American Review of Books\, Blogs\, and Bull\, and Host of Geopolitics with Granieri\, a monthly series of events for FPRI Members.  He is a specialist in Contemporary German and International History with degrees from both Harvard and the University of Chicago. He is the recipient of a Federal Chancellor Scholarship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and is a member in the American Council on Germany’s Young Leader Program. He has taught at the University of Pennsylvania\, Temple University\, Syracuse University\, Furman University\, and the University of Tubingen. He is the author of The Ambivalent Alliance: Konrad Adenauer\, the CDU/CSU\, and the West\, 1949-1966 (Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books\, 2003)\, and is currently completing a book entitled: The Fall and Rise of German Christian Democracy\, From Detente to Reunification\, for Oxford University Press. \nClick here to join via Zoom at Noon on September 30th\nOr dial in to listen by phone\n(646) 558-8656\nMeeting ID: 862 3251 5478\nPasscode: 446113\n\nhttps://www.facebook.com/wacreading/posts/4485492901492291
URL:https://wacreading.org/event/nato-the-american-prospective-with-ron-granieri/
LOCATION:Virtual Event\, PA\, United States
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