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China’s royal obsession: How Chinese leaders utilize their royal connections
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A call to Congress: raise the cost of election interference, sanction Russian IT
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Why the young Chinese generation is becoming “old”
By Wei Axiao NANJING, China — Once known as the “lost generation,” the members of the post-90s generation in China…
China and the US: the new cold war?
Alexander Rosas is a certificate student at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center with a focus on International Politics. Jesse Adler is a…
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By Danielle Thompson In August 2018, SAIS Career Services replaced SAISWorks, students’ previous online career services platform, with the Handshake…
Professor Hintz releases new book ‘Identity Politics Inside Out: National Identity Contestation and Foreign Policy in Turkey’
The SAIS Observer recently sat down with Professor Lisel Hintz to discuss her new book and her concept of identity…
Acts against the press are an assault on our constitutional principles
By Olivia Magnanini BOLOGNA, Italy — According to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) global data, in 2017, 18 journalists…
Three democracies walk into a bar… One leaves broken, another proud, and the last lingering by the door
By John Poor and Sarahann Yeh Political pundits worldwide are mulling over the future of South American constitutional democracy. Years…
Faltering Brexit negotiations trouble Theresa May’s future
By Mariah Franklin BOLOGNA, Italy — Since Britain’s vote to leave the European Union in June 2016, its political situation…