December 2021 News

Russian President Vladimir Putin and General of the Army Valery Gerasimov, Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, at the Ministry of Defense yesterday.
Last Wednesday, following up on the two-hour video call on December 7 between President Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Russian Foreign Ministry gave the U.S. a draft treaty between...
Fig. 1 “Ferry in Dubai Harbor, 1970” shows men commuting to work in an abra (water taxi), in the Dubai Creek. Eve Arnold for Magnum Photos, courtesy of Magnum Photos/Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Kishwar Rizvi, Professor in the History of Art, Islamic Art and Architecture, wrote the following article that appeared in Platform, a digital forum for conversations about buildings, spaces, and...
Foreign Secretary Liz Truss at 10 Downing St. Sunday.
On Saturday, Lord David Frost, the British Cabinet Office Minister and co-chair of the Joint Committee that oversees implementation of the EU-UK Withdrawal Agreement and, in that capacity, the UK’s...
EU Commission Vice President Maroš Šefčovič announcing plan to ensure continued supply of medicines produced in the UK to Northern Ireland.
Today Lord David Frost, the British Cabinet Office Minister, and European Commission Vice President Maroš Šefčovič, the co-chairs of the Joint Committee that oversees implementation of the EU-UK...
On December 2, the webinar “Justice from a Gender Perspective” was held with guest speaker Professor Arancha Garcia del Soto as a means of discussing experiences of women and ethnic minorities that...
CIEG-UNAM, 3 December 2021
Collaboration across disciplinary and national borders has become more difficult than ever during the COVID-19 pandemic, posing barriers to collective organizing and research efforts on important...
President Putin in his video meeting Tuesday with President Biden.
On Tuesday, U.S. President Joseph Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke for two hours by video conference—Biden in the White House Situation Room, Putin in his palatial residence in Sochi...
Neela Saldanha has been appointed the executive director of the Yale Research Initiative on Innovation and Scale (Y-RISE) at the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies...
Valérie Pécresse last Saturday after her nomination to be the French Républicains’ candidate for president.
On April 10, French voters will go to the polls in the first round of the presidential election. When they do, they will find, in addition to President Emmanuel Macron, running for a second five-year...
EU Commission Vice President Maroš Šefčovič speaking Wednesday to the Executive Committee of the Northern Ireland Assembly about the EU-UK negotiation.
Today, Lord David Frost, the British Cabinet Office Minister, and European Commission Vice President Maroš Šefčovič, the co-chairs of the Joint Committee that oversees implementation of the EU-UK...
German party leaders Annalena Baerbock and Robert Habeck (Greens), Olaf Scholz (SPD), and Christian Lindner (FDP) after concluding their coalition agreement, Berlin, November 24.
Last Wednesday, almost two months after the September election for the German Bundestag, the Social Democrats (SPD), Greens, and Free Democrats (FDP) agreed to form a “traffic light” coalition...