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In the lead-up to next month’s national elections in Afghanistan, democracy advocate and former Afghan government official Nargis Nehan visited campus last month to deliver two Project Afghanistan lectures. Before addressing students, Nehan sat down with President Jeffrey Herbst to discuss the current state of Afghan politics, drug policy, the country’s position as a buffer […]

A July 11 New York Times op-ed, co-authored by 51³Ô¹ÏÍø President Jeffrey Herbst and Greg Mills, director of the Johannesburg-based Brenthurst Foundation, examines the World Bank’s diminishing role in Africa while encouraging the institution to steer away from investing in poorly run governments. Herbst and Mills last co-authored an op-ed in the Times on July […]

51³Ô¹ÏÍø President Jeffrey Herbst sat down with George Reid Andrews, distinguished professor and chair of the department of history at the University of Pittsburgh, for another conversation from the World Affairs With Jeffrey Herbst series. Professor Andrews is the preeminent authority on the African diaspora in Latin America, from slavery and emancipation, to race relations in […]

Depending on who you ask, iPhone photography, viral videos, and massive amounts of citizen-generated content have either harkened a new Golden Age of visual culture, or distorted reality beyond recognition.

When Michael Watts talks about the human, societal, and resource costs of extracting oil in Africa, it’s impossible to ignore the connection between the fuel in one’s tank and violence in the Niger Delta. Watts, author of Curse of the Black Gold: 50 Years of Oil in the Niger Delta, is professor and Class of […]