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  • Alumni Update: Claire Schneider '04

    September 20, 2021

    After graduating in 2004, and a brief stint consulting at Booz Allen Hamilton in DC and PACT Cambodia in Phnom Penh – I did what many Dartmouth government majors do, I went to law school.  I definitely didn't know how to "think like a lawyer" yet when I began, but I know Dartmouth helped prepare me to think critically and write analytically. (I still remember Professor Press sawing up the first paper I wrote in his class.)  Eventually, I made my way from litigation to transactional practice, but I still rely on careful and logical writing and analysis every day.

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  • The U.S. helped design Afghanistan's constitution. It was built to fail.

    September 10, 2021
    Afghan Truck

    Prof. John Carey on Afghan democracy. As advisers to the U.S. government's efforts to establish democratic institutions in Afghanistan, the political scientist and his colleague "witnessed multiple missteps that helped seal Afghan democracy's fate," they write in a "Washington Post" op-ed. Read the full article here.

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  • Analysis: War is over but not Biden's Afghanistan challenges

    August 31, 2021
    Biden

    Associate Professor of Government, Jason Lyall, speaks to AP News on Biden's Afghanistan challenges.  "For someone who made his name as an empathetic leader, he's appeared...as quite rational, even cold-hearted, in his pursuit of this goal," the James Wright Chair in Transnational Studies and associate professor of government tells AP about President Biden's decision to end the war in Afghanistan. Read the full article here.

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