Nigeria’s shadowy transit network; US-India relations with Ambassador Ken Juster

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OCTOBER 2022

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BLOG

Buses and Bribes: Lagos’s Shadowy Transit Network

Faculty Associate Daniel Agbiboa

A scholar goes back to his hometown in Nigeria to study the informal transportation network that deeply affected his youth.

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The US-India Relationship: A Q&A with Kenneth Juster

Advisory Committee Member Kenneth Juster

The recent US Ambassador to India offers insights on trade relations between the world’s two largest democracies, the goals of the Quad, and how to counter Chinese dominance in the Indo-Pacific.

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BOOKS

Getting to Diversity: What Works and What Doesn’t

Frank Dobbin et al., Harvard University Press

Enemies Within: The Global Politics of Fifth Columns

WCFIA alum Harris Mylonas, Oxford University Press

Outsourcing Repression: Everyday State Power in Contemporary China

WCFIA alum Lynette H. Ong, Oxford University Press

The Rise and Fall of Imperial China: The Social Origins of State Development

Yuhua Wang, Princeton University Press

JOURNAL ARTICLES & WORKING PAPERS

Burnout among Health Care Professionals during COVID-19

Visiting Scholar Siw Tone Innstrand, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Multiple Makings at China’s First Hydroelectric Power Station at Shilongba, 1908–1912

Arunabh Ghosh, History and Technology

The Aftermath of Debt Surges

Kenneth Rogoff, Annual Review of Economics

Can Nonviolent Resistance Survive COVID-19?

Erica Chenoweth, Journal of Human Rights

Limiting Aggressive Policing Can Reduce Police and Civilian Violence

WCFIA alum Jessie Trudeau, World Development

OPINION & ANALYSIS

Sporting Opportunity: Q&A with Susie DeLellis Petruccelli '96

Global Sports Fellow Susie DeLellis Petruccelli, Harvard Alumni

Feeding 7.9 Billion…Without Wrecking the Planet [audio]

Associate Robert Paarlberg, World Affairs

On Academic Engagement with China

William C. Kirby, The Wire China

Rethinking Cuban Art

Alejandro de la Fuente, quoted in the Harvard Gazette

How to Build a Better Order: Limiting Great Power Rivalry in an Anarchic World

Dani Rodrik and Stephen M. Walt, Foreign Affairs

How U.S. Grand Strategy Is Changed by Ukraine

Stephen M. Walt et al., Foreign Policy

Even as Iranians Rise Up, Protests Worldwide Are Failing at Record Rates

Erica Chenoweth, quoted in the New York Times

The New World Disorder: The Nature of Nationalism [audio]

WCFIA alum Harris Mylonas, Ideas with Nahlah Ayed, CBC/Radio-Canada

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