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    • Alumni Update: Aly Rahim '02

      December 4, 2013

      Aly Rahim is a Social Development Specialist for the Europe and Central Asia region at the World Bank based in Washington, where he serves as a task team leader for a range of World Bank lending projects, advisory services and analytic activities addressing conflict-affected and fragile states, community-driven development, participatory approaches/governance, and social sustainability. He has also worked in the Bank's South Asia and Africa regions. Aly joined the World Bank through its Young Professionals Program.

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    • Perils of Apology in International Relations (Foreign Affairs)

      November 22, 2013

      In an opinion piece published by Foreign Affairs, Associate Professor of Government Jennifer Lind writes about the “politics of apology,” in particular the recent controversy over reports that Kabul demanded that the U.S. apologize for its military’s “bad behavior” in Afghanistan. The politics of apology, she writes, “are hardly limited to the United States and Afghanistan.” And apologies can sometimes makes things worse, says Lind, author of Sorry States: Apologies in International Politics.

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    • Envisioning a Peaceful Israel, Scientifically (The New Yorker)

      November 6, 2013

      In a story in The New Yorker, Professor Bernard Avishai, a visiting professor of government, writes about a method for determining the cost of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to Israel’s economy. “The problem is that it is difficult to determine the opportunity cost of the conflict,” Avishai writes. “How well might the Israeli economy have done if the conflict hadn’t taken place?”

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