China’s quest to rule Taiwan has already begun with a campaign of “gray-zone” warfare. Here is how military strategists believe the struggle might play out. READ THE ARTICLE  ABOUT The Longreads Club is a bi-weekly program hosted by WorldOregon's Young Professionals group. We discuss a long-form article focused on a global topic each meeting. Read…

Thought Partnerships invites you to a behind the curtain conversation with the Peace Science Digest team and members of our Peer Learning Community on November 30 at 11 am EST. This event will spotlight the special issue focusing on countering hate and violent extremism, a collaborative project between Thought Partnerships and the War Prevention Initiative…

Since 2017, the Chinese government has imprisoned more than a million Uyghurs — a mostly Muslim, Turkic-speaking ethnic group living in the northwestern region of Xinjiang — in “re-education camps.” Human rights organizations and international observers have reported systematic state-organized mass imprisonment, forced labor and sterilization, torture and persecution — extensive crimes against humanity that the U.S. government has…

What do people around the world like and dislike about U.S. society and politics? How does global public opinion affect U.S. soft power as we increasingly need allies to advance foreign policy? What does this also mean for U.S. citizens who work to support our foreign policy goals via citizen diplomacy? Join our partners at Global…

Join us for a rich and fascinating discussion as historian John Ghazvinian traces the complex story of the relations between the U.S. and Iran back to the Persian Empire of the eighteenth century. Drawing on years of archival research both in the United States and Iran, Ghazvinian explores where, how, and when things took a wrong turn in this relationship. Why did…