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Realpolitik in rural China

By Matthew Chitwood | June 14, 2018

What Chinese villagers think about a looming trade war.

US ‘criminalizing and dehumanizing’ migrants

By ICWA Staff | June 13, 2018

VIDEO: Watch highlights from ICWA's panel "The migration cycle: The US role in Latin American migration."

Karina Piser speaks at Anglophone library in Angers

By Karina Piser | June 12, 2018

Outlines how the debate around secularism has evolved in the wake of recent terrorism in France.

The Daily Beast: Neri Zilber on a liquor that dissolves borders

By ICWA Staff | June 12, 2018

"Everyone drinks, even Muslims."

‘Reactionary imperialist’ ICWA fellow interviews Chinese communist convert in 1949

By ICWA Staff | June 4, 2018

ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT: A leading China scholar, Doak Barnett played a critical role in the Nixon-Kissinger opening to China.

Why hysteria about Islam is clouding France’s fight against radicalization

By Karina Piser | June 1, 2018

A new controversy over the headscarf is distracting the authorities.

The Daily Beast: Neri Zilber on Israel and Hamas’s calculated attacks

By ICWA Staff | May 31, 2018

That no deaths have resulted from several weeks' of rocket fire is "nothing short of remarkable."

Joel Millman boxes to support Global Migration Film Festival

By ICWA Staff | May 30, 2018

Joel (left) takes one for the team From an IOM press release: IOM Boxer Punches Up Interest in 2018 Global Migration Film Festival Geneva — With preparations beginning for the UN Migration Agency’s third annual Global Migration Film Festival (GMFF) to take place in December this year, IOM senior spokesperson Joel Millman decided to take matters

Japanese arcades and nation-branding

By Amanda Brenner | May 30, 2018

What gaming says about the national character.

The New Republic: Karina Piser on the ultra-secular French left

By Karina Piser | May 29, 2018

A student union president at the Sorbonne is demonized for her hijab.