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By Andrea Gibson When America was attacked by terrorists on 9/11, various commentators compared the incidents to Pearl Harbor, which was the last time foreign enemies had invaded U.S. soil. Although the two attacks were different in nature and context, those analogies helped stir up emotions Americans had about World […]

Ohio University faculty presented at the Policy History Conference June 4-5 in Columbus, OH. Dr. Paul Milazzo, Associate Professor of History, presented “Internationalism in One Lesson: Henry Hazlitt and the Problem with Bretton Woods, 1944-1945.” Milazzo also chaired the session on Transportation and Communication Policy. Dr. Kathleen S. Sullivan, Associate […]

Ohio University alum David Wilhelm ’77 has been appointed as member of the Foundation for a World in Transition’s International Advisory Board, according to a June 12 foundation news release. Wilhelm earned a bachelor’s degree in Government from the College of Arts & Sciences at Ohio University. David Wilhelm is […]

Five Ohio University undergraduate students are in Cambodia this summer in a student-faculty collaborative “externship” project call “Imagining International Justice in Post-Genocide Cambodia.” The students are working with various organizations through partnerships with the Ohio University Center for Law, Justice & Culture. Ohio University has a strong history of Southeast Asian […]

During the reign of the Khmer Rouge (1975-1979) up to a quarter of Cambodia’s population was killed through torture, execution, forced labor, and starvation. Two of the most infamous sites of torture and execution in Phnom Penh, Tuol Sleng and Choeung Ek, remain today as sites of memory. Five Ohio […]

Last week’s mine deaths in Turkey were “no accident,” writes Dr. Nukhet Sandal for the Huffington Post in an article headlined “No Death Is Ordinary: Soma Work Massacre in Turkey.” Sandal, Director of War and Peace Studies and Assistant Professor of Political Science at Ohio University, is  conducting research this […]

CBC News interviewed Dr. Brandon Kendhammer, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Ohio University, for a May 4 report on “Why over 250 abducted Nigerian schoolgirls remain missing.” It’s been nearly three weeks since men dressed as soldiers kidnapped more than 300 girls from a Nigerian boarding school, an attack […]