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Tuesday, April 04, 2017, 6:30 p.m.
Happy Dog Takes on the World: Free Speech and Censorship in Turkey
The past decade has seen Turkey veer from the path of a democratizing Muslim nation to authoritarian consolidations of power under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Beginning with the police crackdown on protests over the razing of Gezi Park in 2013...
Tuesday, March 07, 2017, 6:30 p.m.
Happy Dog Takes on the World: Crossing Borders - The Role of Art in International Relations
What role does art play when it comes to international relations? The poet W. H. Auden famously wrote “for poetry makes nothing happen” in his 1940 eulogy In Memory of W.B. Yeats. While no poem can be credited with stopping...
Tuesday, February 07, 2017, 6:30 p.m.
Happy Dog Takes on the World: We the People
From the election of Donald J. Trump as President of the United States to Britain’s Brexit vote to leave the European Union to the ascendance of the nationalist Front National in France and other political movements across the globe, people...
Tuesday, December 06, 2016, 6:30 p.m.
Happy Dog Takes on the World: Middle East Conflicts - Any Prospects for Resolution?
In the last five years, the Middle East has experienced the "Arab Spring" revolutions and counter-revolutions, civil wars in Syria, Iraq, Libya and Yemen, ISIS's conquests and terrorism, Russian intervention and American decline, the nuclear deal with Iran, and lack...
Thursday, November 10, 2016, 7:30 p.m.
Watch the video on C-SPAN's website here. Regardless of which candidate prevails on November 8, the next President of the United States will inherit a complicated international landscape and mounting global problems. The Syrian civil war shows no signs of ending,...
Tuesday, October 04, 2016, 7:30 p.m.
Happy Dog Takes on the World: On Building Walls and Bridges - the Future of U.S.-Mexico Relations
Since the end of the 19th century, the United States (U.S.) and Mexico have enjoyed a strong relationship characterized by close diplomatic and economic ties along their nearly 2,000 mile shared border. Mexico and the U.S. are key partners when...
Tuesday, September 06, 2016, 7:30 p.m.
Happy Dog Takes on the World: The Challenges of Study Abroad
The number of college students choosing to study abroad is increasing, according to The Institute for Higher Education. Proponents of study abroad programs cite their benefit to individual personal growth through exposure to different cultures, governments and languages, and the...
Tuesday, August 02, 2016, 7:30 p.m.
Happy Dog Takes on the World: Brazil
The news coming out of Brazil recently challenges the truism that “there is no such thing as bad publicity.” On June 17, fewer than 50 days before the start of the 2016 Summer Olympics, Rio de Janeiro has declared a...
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