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Dickey Center Fellow Receives Prestigious Research Award from the Government of Canada

Jul 18, 2017

We are extremely pleased to announce that Leah Sarson, postdoctoral research associate in the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth and Visiting Arctic Fellow in the Institute of Arctic Studies, was recently chosen to receive a prestigious Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) fellowship from the Government of Canada, an award given to the “most promising Canadian new scholars in the social sciences and humanities.”

Sarson will use her award to continue her postdoctoral...

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Virginia Comments on Greenland Toxins in Popular Science Article

Jul 13, 2017

July 12, 2017 | Popular Science

As the huge ice sheet melts, it releases toxins—and microbes that eat them, reports Poular Science magazine. They turned for comment to Professor Ross...

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Fulbright Arctic Initiative Accepting Applications

Jul 12, 2017

July 12, 2017 | Fulbright Scholar Program release

Fulbright Arctic Initiative information (pdf)

18-month research program will expand collaborative networks and address shared priorities

The U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs has announced the launch of the second Fulbright Arctic Initiative.

The Fulbright Arctic Initiative is designed to create a network to stimulate international research...

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Wilson Center Names Ross Virginia Polar Initiative Fellow

Jul 9, 2017

July 6, 2017 | Dartmouth News | Bill Platt

Ross Virginia, the director of Dartmouth’s Institute of Arctic Studies at the Dickey Center for International Understanding and the Myers Family Professor of Environmental Science, has been named a global fellow with the Polar Initiative of the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars.

“It is good for the...

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Former Dickey Center Foreign Policy Fellow Wins APSA Award for First Book

Jun 15, 2017

June 14, 2017

Rosella Cappella Zielinski, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Boston University, and a 2012-13 Dickey Center U.S. Foreign Policy and International Security Post-doctoral Fellow, has won the American Political Science Association (APSA) Robert L. Jervis and Paul W. Schroeder Best Book Award in International History and Politics. How States Pay for War, published in 2016 by Cornell University Press, is...

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War & Peace Fellow Publishes in Prestigious Military Journal

Jun 15, 2017

June 15, 2017

Charlotte Blatt '18, a Dickey Center War & Peace Fellow and government major, has published an article in Parameter, one of the U.S. military's top professional journals. "Operational Success, Strategic Failure: Assessing the 2007 Iraq Troop Surge," Blatt's sophomore seminar paper, is published in the Spring 2017 issue.

Her paper also won the 2017 Edwin H. Sherman Family Prize, awarded by Temple...

Is Trump Fighting Terrorism?

Jun 4, 2017

June 4, 2017 | POLITICO

by Daniel Benjamin

Is Trump Fighting Terrorism? Or is he just tweeting about it, while making it worse?

Donald Trump came to the presidency on a wave of overheated rhetoric about the terrorist threat, the failures of his predecessors, and promises, as he said in his inaugural address, to “unite the civilized world against radical Islamic terrorism, which we will...

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Leah Sarson, Dickey Center Fellow, on CTV News

May 25, 2017

Dickey Center Post-doctoral Researcher Leah Sarson talked to CTV News in Canada about President Trump's first meeting with NATO leaders in Brussels today. In response to a question about President Trump's call for greater defense spending among allies, she said, "I certainly think that Donald Trump has proven to be a wild card today. I think he suprised a lot of people by not mentioning Article 5, at the heart of NATO, promising collective defence. He has hammered home his agenda, pushing defense spending and...

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Talk Highlights Outcomes of Iranian Election

May 23, 2017

May 23, 2017 | Valley News

An article in the Valley News highlighted Dartmouth Sociology Professor Misagh Parsa's views on the roots of a deep discord between the Iranian people and their Islamist government and pointed to possible outcomes.

Parsa, author of the book Democracy in Iran: Why It Failed and How It Might Succeed, talked only days after a major victory by Hassan Rouhani, a moderate reformer, in Iran's presidential election.

She told the Valley News, "It’s highly unlikely for Iran to...

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Studying Diplomacy Is Not Just Academic at the Dickey Center

May 23, 2017

May 23, 2017 | Dartmouth News

by Bill Platt

Students taking the seminar "U.S. Policy in Africa and the Great Challenges Africa Faces in the Future” knew they would be studying various aspects of recent politics on the continent. What they quickly discovered was that the scholar guiding their studies had firsthand experience with a good part of modern African political history.

The 37-year foreign service career of Ambassador ...