Ambassador Patrick Duddy, DUCIS Visiting Senior Lecturer and former Diplomat in Residence, has been in high-demand, following the death of Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez. Duddy is the most-recent U.S. Ambassador to Venezuela, and as such, has been able to provide unparalleled insight into both the inner-workings of Venezuela after 14 years under Chavez and the approach that U.S. diplomatic efforts are likely to take as answers as to what direction Venezuela will take, under what leadership, begin to resolve. [more »]

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On April 5, Professor Nile Green will detail the infancy of Muslim printing through responses to European industrialization on the distant frontiers of empire and reconstruct the global interactions that gave birth to Muslim printing as European industrial products crossed cultural and political frontiers.

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The 2013 Graduate Awards for Research & Training application is now available.

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The Duke University Center for International Studies will re-launch its principal seminar series in 2013. Retitled, the University Seminar on Globalization, Governance and Development, the series, which began in 1997 as Globalization and Equity, and was later known as Global Governance and Democracy, will begin, anew, on Feburary 14, 2013 with the International Monetary Fund’s Stijn Claessens’ presentation, “Understanding Financial Crises: Causes, Consequences, and Policy Responses.”

For more information and background materials: http://ducis.jhfc.duke.edu/ggd

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