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Yemenis Hear from UCLA Students on Issues, Outreach
A Yemeni MP and others in a six-member delegation raise concerns at UCLA about the perception of Arabs and Muslims in the media. Students explain how they're meeting the problem.
Posted: 9/19/2007
The Military in Iraq are Resolving Nothing, Wesley K. Clark
The Independent, September 9, 2007
Posted: 9/11/2007
9/11 Didn't Change Much About Intelligence-Gathering, Prof. Amy Zegart
UCLA News, September 6, 2007
Posted: 9/6/2007
Unforeign Language
UCLA's National Heritage Language Resource Center held its first annual conference at UC Davis in 2007. Participants laid the groundwork for K-12 and college students to advance skills in the non-English languages they learned at home.
Posted: 9/4/2007
Amy Zegart: US Spy Agencies Have Long Way to Go
In this video op-ed, Amy Zegart of the UCLA School of Public Affairs calls for "top-down policy changes" and "bottom-up cultural transformation" in U.S. intelligence gathering and analysis. Zegart is the author of "Spying Blind: The CIA, the FBI, and the Origins of 9/11" (2007).
Posted: 8/16/2007
Why Terrorists Aren't Soldiers, Wesley K. Clark and Kal Raustiala
Burkle Center Senior Fellow Wesley K. Clark and Center Director Kal Raustiala argue in The New York Times that the current U.S. practice of declaring terrorists "enemy combatants" at once impairs counterterrorism efforts and endangers civil liberties at home.
Posted: 8/8/2007
Q&A: Cheris Chan
A UCLA Global Fellow explains how Chinese people's inhibitions about discussing premature death have made it hard, but not impossible, for a life insurance market to develop in the country.
Posted: 8/3/2007
The Difficult Questions
62 years after bombs fell on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, documentarian Stephen Okazaki tells the stories of survivors in modern cities that are struggling to remember their horrific pasts.
Posted: 7/31/2007
Latin American Scholars Meet over Kimchi
A conference this month in Koreatown was the first step in bridging studies of Korea carried out in North and South America. Under a five-year grant, UCLA Korean studies researchers and their Latin American colleagues are planning collaboration and exchanges.
Posted: 7/30/2007
Majority World Finds Voice in Photos
Photographer from Bangladesh delivers lectures at UCLA about human rights, images, and new takes on citizen journalism.
Posted: 7/23/2007
307 Degrees Conferred by International Institute in 2006-07
View a slideshow of the 2007 International Institute Graduation Ceremony (Flash plug-in required). Speakers included retired Gen. Wesley K. Clark.
Posted: 7/10/2007
The Mediator
UCLA Burkle Center Assistant Director Anna Spain brings government and UN experience to the job, along with lessons learned since high school about solving problems collaboratively.
Posted: 7/9/2007
Visuality & Identity: Sinophone Articulations Across the Pacific
Professor Shu-mei Shih's new, pathbreaking book
Posted: 6/20/2007
Climate Change: Globalization of Environmental Impacts and Solutions
A presentation by SASSAN SAATCHI, Institute of the Environment, UCLA, at the conference on Security Issues and Impacts: Comparative Perspectives on Europe and Eurasia, UCLA, June 1, 2007
Posted: 6/15/2007
Kal Raustiala in the Los Angeles Times: A Bill of Rights Without Borders
A 50-year-old court decision on constitutional protections overseas comes into play in the war on terror, writes Burkle Center Director Kal Raustiala in The Los Angeles Times.
Posted: 6/15/2007
Native Son Returns to Delhi
Historian Vinay Lal's sojourn will take him and his family away from their home at UCLA and back to Delhi, the city of his birth, where he will lead a UC-wide study abroad program.
Posted: 6/15/2007
Security and Sustainability of Cities in a Changing Climate
A presentation by MARTIN BENISTON, Climate Research Group, University of Geneva, at the conference on Security Issues and Impacts: Comparative Perspectives on Europe and Eurasia, UCLA, June 1, 2007
Posted: 6/15/2007
AIDS Fight Needs Course Correction, Say Panelists
Prescriptions for combating the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Africa, Latin America, and Eastern Europe include increased funding, focus on local disease drivers, and reassertion of public health goals over political concerns.
Posted: 6/12/2007
International Institute Staffers Honored
This year's Excellence in Service Awards went to an enthusiast about Japanese (and other) cultures and a strong supporter of students working for a better Africa.
Posted: 6/6/2007
Teaching Sept. 11
UCLA political scientist Marc Trachtenberg, who teaches a Burkle Center-backed course on the post-9/11 world, explains in a newspaper article that current events can be approached with detachment.
Posted: 6/5/2007
Princeton Philosopher Urges Rich to Give More to Poor
Peter Singer's message is uncomfortable: Most people follow a minimalist morality that makes them a lot more immoral than they consider themselves to be.
Posted: 6/4/2007
Entry to the World
"Fowler in Focus: Doors in Global Perspective" Opens June 24 at the Fowler Museum at UCLA
Posted: 5/31/2007
Geographer Entrikin Steps into Top Role at International Institute
In more than three decades at UCLA, Nicholas Entrikin has led his department, the review of faculty promotions across campus, and the Institute's Global Studies IDP. Now he's taking on two jobs in one: overseeing the growth of UCLA's global relationships and building bridges among multidisciplinary programs on campus. He and Ron Rogowski, the outgoing vice provost and dean, talk about where the Institute is heading.
Posted: 5/30/2007
Digital Showcase Touts Interdisciplinary Innovation
Nearly 350 faculty, staff, students and others packed the crowded exhibition space at Perloff Hall, peering at computer monitors, test-driving Web applications, taking notes, and trading ideas and business cards.
Posted: 5/23/2007
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