Word: eurasian
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Five departments confirmed that they plan to submit proposals before the October 15 deadline, including Celtic Languages and Literatures, Classics, English and American Literature and Language, History of Art and Architecture, and Philosophy, according to department chairs. The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies also intends to submit a proposal by the first deadline, according to Lisbeth L. Tarlow, the associate director of the center...
...hard to project power with a name like the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). Certainly, the 10-country Eurasian assembly, which gathered in China's financial capital last week, can't claim the brand recognition of the European Union. But the SCO?which consists of China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan, as well as observer nations India, Pakistan, Iran and Mongolia?is rapidly raising its profile. The regional bloc's massive population (more than 40% of the world's total), wealth of natural resources (more than 20% of the world's oil reserves) and strategic location could give considerable influence...
...said, students will probably be required to take the History 97 tutorial and five other courses.Several departments, including The Classics, Government, Linguistics, Music, Philosophy, and Sanskrit and Indian Studies, may offer multiple secondary fields in different tracks, according to directors of undergraduate studies. The Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies will develop a secondary field over the summer, said Lisbeth L. Tarlow, the center’s associate director. The Ph.D. program in Health Policy, which currently has 80 undergraduates enrolled in a certificate program, will also submit a secondary field, director of the program Joan P. Curhan said...
...without international financial support, but not without political support. The work carried out by NGOs may be, after all, the most important means of developing the rule of law in Russia. Both authors are fellows at the Sakharov Program on Human Rights at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. Arkadiy Leybovskiy is a historian from Krasnodar. Kirill Babichenko is an attorney from Velikiy Novgorod and serves on the Commission of Human Rights in the Novgorod region...
...geographical factors. Diamond’s popular books, “Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies” and “Collapse: How Civilizations Choose to Fail or Succeed,” have posited similar claims. According to Diamond, the historical dominance of Eurasian and particularly European cultures has nothing to do with any questions of personality or intellectual capacity, as historians had once asserted. Instead, he proposes a model of human social evolution that sees European cultures as the winners of a geographical lottery that gave them the tools and environment to dominate other...