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International March 2, 2022

Can wealthy nations stop buying Russian oil?

By Amy Myers Jaffe, Tufts University One option the U.S. and other nations have for ratcheting up pressure on Russia in response to its invasion of Ukraine is reducing their…

International March 1, 2022

Ordinary Russians are already feeling the economic pain of sanctions over Ukraine invasion

By Peter Rutland, Wesleyan University [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] The daily life of ordinary Russians – not just the country’s political elite or super…

International February 26, 2022

A historian corrects misunderstandings about Ukrainian and Russian history

By Ronald Suny, University of Michigan [This article first appeared in The Conversation. Republished with permission] The first casualty of war, says historian Ronald Suny, is not just the truth….

International February 25, 2022

Military experts react to Ukraine invasion, assess potential for widespread aggression and risks to US

By Carla Martinez Machain, Kansas State University; Liam Collins, United States Military Academy West Point, and Susan Hannah Allen, University of Mississippi [This article first appeared in The Conversation, used…

International February 24, 2022

Russia invades Ukraine – 5 essential reads from experts

By Naomi Schalit, The Conversation [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] This is a frightening moment. Russia has invaded Ukraine, and certainly those most frightened right…

International February 23, 2022

The story of how Swahili became Africa’s most spoken language

By John M. Mugane, Harvard University [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] Once just an obscure island dialect of an African Bantu tongue, Swahili has evolved…

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