By Lee H. Hamilton All eyes were on NATO last week as leaders of its member nations met in Lithuania to debate key issues, including their response to Russia’s war against Ukraine. That marked quite a change – a positive one — in the status of the 74-year-old organization. Just a few years ago critics… Read more »
Hamilton Lugar School News
Central Eurasian Studies graduates win Mongolia Society competition
Congratulations to the Samuel H. Bass and Kenneth E. Linden, Hamilton Lugar School Central Eurasian Studies Ph.D. graduates, who were recognized in the 2022-2023 Best of the Next Generation of American Mongolists essay competition. Bass, currently a visiting assistant professor of Central Eurasian Studies in the Hamilton Lugar School at Indiana University, was awarded… Read more »
Ethan Michelson highlights gender injustice in China’s divorce courts
Ethan Michelson’s book, Decoupling: Gender Injustice in China’s Divorce Courts (Cambridge University Press, 2022), paints a grim picture of a widespread problem that is hiding in plain sight – the difficulty of obtaining a divorce in China, particularly if you are a woman abused by her husband. Michelson says the book title is a double… Read more »
New Center Directors and Department Chair
In approach of the 2023-24 academic year, the Hamilton Lugar School welcomes seven new directors of area studies centers and two new department chairs to join the current directors and chairs. These individuals bring invaluable expertise and depth of knowledge to advance the missions of Hamilton Lugar School centers and departments, and to support students… Read more »
Iconic “Stones of the World” wall memorialized in IU presidential portrait gallery
The iconic “Stones of the World” wall in the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies building is now represented in the Indiana University Presidents Hall portrait gallery. Michael A. McRobbie, 18th president of Indiana University (IU) chose the “Stones of the World” feature wall as the background for his official portrait which was… Read more »
Hamilton on Foreign Policy #222: Russian uprising remains a mystery
By Lee H. Hamilton Recent events in Russia have been surprising, even shocking. When the private army employed by Russia’s Wagner Group left Ukraine and moved toward Moscow last month, it caught everyone by surprise. We’re used to thinking of Russian leader Vladimir Putin as a dictator who has complete control of his country. Maybe… Read more »
IU-Ukraine Nonresidential Scholars Program supporting second cohort
Republished from News at IU An Indiana University program that supports Ukrainian scholars and their research has been so successful that IU has agreed to support a second cohort of scholars for the next academic year. The IU-Ukraine Nonresidential Scholars Program started with an agreement in June 2022 to support up to 20 scholars after… Read more »
Hamilton on Foreign Policy #221: Politicians take diverse roads to leadership
By Lee H. Hamilton I wrote recently about international leaders, world-changing figures like Nelson Mandela and Mikhail Gorbachev. Today I want to give credit to women and men I worked with in the U.S. Congress. Some are well-known and some aren’t, but all served their constituents energetically. Some were Democrats and some were Republicans. Some… Read more »
Assessment of how climate scientists communicate risk shows imperfections, improvements
Republished from Indiana University Newsroom The hardest part, experts find, is communicating ‘unquantifiable’ uncertainty BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Scientists are finding new ways to present crucial facts about the complex science of future sea-level rise, according to research led by an Indiana University professor and an international group of climate scientists. Their analysis, published in… Read more »
IU Bloomington a top-performing institution for federal scholarships in critical languages
Republished from News at IU Eleven Indiana University Bloomington undergraduate students were awarded David L. Boren Scholarships by the Institute of International Education on behalf of the National Security Education Program, a record number in IU’s history. These students will study in Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Morocco, Jordan and Taiwan, as well as at the Defense Language… Read more »