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The Belarusian authorities have responded with a brutal crackdown on protests challenging President Lukashenka's claim to a landslide victory in Sunday's elections. What does this tell us about the survival of autocratic regimes? SIGS Professor Dr. Kulakevich provides answers.
August 8, 2020Department News
Despite nearly 5000 confirmed cases and 40 deaths, Belarus remains the only country in Europe denying the coronavirus danger. Why does the government hold fast to this denial of the coronavirus threat? SIGS Professor, Dr. Kulakevich provides answers.
April 21, 2020Department News
SIGS Professor, Dr. Tatsiana Kulakevich, wrote an article titled 鈥淧ompeo to Visit Minsk: Why Is the US Defrosting Ties With Belarus?鈥� where she discusses the significance of Mike Pompeo's visit to Belarus.
January 31, 2020Department News
Dr. Kissi's New Book "Africans and the Holocaust: Perceptions and Responses of Colonized and Sovereign Peoples"
Department of Africana Studies and SIGS Professor Dr. Edward Kissi covers the Holocaust鈥檚 impact on surrounding regions in his new book 鈥淎fricans and the Holocaust: Perceptions and Responses of Colonized and Sovereign Peoples.鈥�
January 7, 2020Department News
SIGS professor Dr. Tatisana Kulakevich wrote an analysis titled 鈥淏elarus and the U.S. Decided to Restore Ties After 11 years of 鈥淔rozen鈥� Relations. Here鈥檚 Why鈥� on the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia website.
October 16, 2019Department News
SIGS Ph.D. student Murid Partaw was interviewed by BBC World News regarding the elections in Afghanistan.
October 1, 2019Department News
Dr. Reiter, SIGS faculty member and director of ISLAC, wrote an article titled "If Germany atoned for the Holocaust, the US can pay reparations for slavery" in The Conversation.
July 31, 2019Department News
Dr. Benton, SIGS faculty member, wrote a piece titled "When Americans go to the polls, they look to the past 鈥� not the future" in The Conversation.
May 14, 2019Department News
SIGS Professor Dr. Steven Tauber and SIGS Distinguished Professor Emerita Dr. Susan MacManus discuss the Governor鈥檚 free speech proposal in the article 鈥淲illiam March: 国产短视频faculty weigh in on proposed 'free speech' policies at state universities.鈥�
April 18, 2019Department News
Florida Gubernatorial Fellow Wins Award
Political Science Undergraduate Student Ella Biggins received the Governor's Washington, DC Fellowship Award for Outstanding Leadership.
April 1, 2019Honors and Awards
Dr. Benton discuses "What happens to rural and small town Trump voters after Trump is gone?" in an article written in The Conversation.
March 29, 2019Department News