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Argentia Study Abroad Highlights

The Argentina Study Abroug program spent a day learning about using music for development in the Vigario Geral favela with Afroreggae, an innovator in community development as featured in the film Favela Rising.

The group also researched the impact of neighborhood soccer clubs on civil society and community in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and enjoyed a game of Atlanta FC, named after Atlanta, GA!

Can a soccer hooligan be part of civil society? The Argentina Study Abroad examined the case of Hinchadas Unidas (United Hooligans) and were treated to an Argentine BBQ by the hooligans of Tigre FC.

Can a soccer hooligan be part of civil society? The Argentina Study Abroad examined the case of Hinchadas Unidas (United Hooligans) and were treated to an Argentine BBQ by the hooligans of Tigre FC.

The Argentina Study Abroad with Dr. Adam Stulberg experienced numerous encounters with leading academics, diplomats,and policy-makers at the Argentine Council of Foreign Relations. Ambassador Rogelio Pfirter, former Director General of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) spent a fascinating afternoon with the students.

Stulberg Presents on the Geopolitical Gas Landscape

On June 30, 2015, Dr. Adam Stulberg, Professor at the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs and Co-Director of the Center for International Strategy, Technology and Policy at Georgia Tech, gave two presentations at the 2015 Warsaw Euro-Atlantic Summer Academy (WEASA) that were entitled “Geopolitics of the Changing Gas Landscape” and “Russia-Ukraine-EU Gas Conflict: Strategic Developments and Implications.” Both presentations addressed the workshop’s core theme of “Energy Security.”

WEASA is an educational program for up-and-coming policy analysts, experts, advisers, civil servants, private sector/NGO professionals and journalists from the Eastern Partnership region (i.e. Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine). It is sponsored by the College of Europe (Natolin), Polish-American Freedom Foundation, and The German Marshall Fund of the United States.

Garver Talks on China

Professor Emeritus John Garver delivered talks (several in Chinese) on “China’s rise and its neighbors” and “Chinese misperceptions of a US anti-China conspiracy” in June 2015 at Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, Shanghai International Studies University, Sichuan University in Chengdu, and Carnegie –Tsinghua Institute for International Peace in Beijing China. Dr. Garver also conducted research on China’s approach to the ongoing Iran nuclear negotiations via discussions and interviews with Chinese scholars at the Foreign Ministry think tank China Institute for International Studies. Research on China and the Iran nuclear issue is part of a study of China’s evolving Middle East policies conducted under the aegis of Georgetown University. The next step in the Georgetown project will be a conference in Doha, Qatar in October, followed by further interviews in Beijing in November. Dr. Garver’s history of People’s Republic of China foreign relations will be published by Oxford University Press in December 2015.