Global Viewpoint

  • Maimouna Barro, Interim Director, Center for African Studies discusses the recent presidential election in Senegal
    4/9/2012
    Maimouna Barro (above) is Interim Director for the Center for African Studies at the University of Illinois. Her research interests include issues of women, education, and social change in West Africa. Here she discusses the 2012 Presidential elections in Senegal.
  • Professor Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi Discusses the Recent Election in Iran
    3/7/2012
    On March 2, Iran held its first national election since the summer of 2009, when the mass protests that came to be called the Green Movement began in the aftermath of a disputed presidential election won by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (above). History Professor Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi discusses the recent election, held in the shadow of rising international tensions over Irans nuclear program, in an interview with News Bureau social sciences editor Craig Chamberlain.
  • NADP coordinator David Gay and researcher Christopher Lehmann discuss a radioactive fallout study in Japan
    2/27/2012Liz Ahlberg writer Liz Ahlberg by Liz Ahlberg published by Liz Ahlberg
    NADP coordinator David Gay and researcher Christopher Lehmann discuss with News Bureau physical sciences editor a recent study of the radiation fallout following the disaster in 2011 at The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, south of the Onagawa Nuclear Power Plant (above).
  • Professor Asef Bayat discusses the Arab Spring one year after it began
    1/27/2012Craig Chamberlain writer Craig Chamberlain by Craig Chamberlain published by Craig Chamberlain
    It was Jan. 14 last year when Tunisia's longtime dictator Ben Ali left power, and Egypt's Mubarak would follow almost a month later early results of Middle East uprisings that would come to be called the Arab Spring. A native of Iran who taught in Egypt for 16 years, Professor Asef Bayat made trips to Egypt and Tunisia last spring and summer, which included spending time with those at the center of the protests. Bayat talked about the past year, and where things now stand, in an interview with News Bureau social sciences editor Craig Chamberlain.
  • Professor Richard Tempest on the protests in Russia
    1/2/2012Matt VanderZalm writer Matt VanderZalm by Matt VanderZalm published by Matt VanderZalm
    Professor Richard Tempest, Director of the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center, discusses the recent protests in Russia regarding parliamentary elections in early December and Vladimir Putin's (above right, with President Dmitry Medvedev) presumed return to the Russian presidency. (Photo courtesy www.kremlin.ru)
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