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Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice discusses Russian invasion of Ukraine, women’s leadership

Isa Sheikh | Thursday, April 28, 2022

Political scientist and diplomat Condoleezza Rice, the 66th U.S. secretary of state under President George W. Bush, came to campus Thursday to address members of the Notre Dame community in a wide-ranging discussion hosted by University President Fr. John Jenkins at the Jordan Auditorium in the Mendoza College of Business. Rice, who currently directs the

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Defending the truth, not Russia

Letter to the Editor | Thursday, March 31, 2022

With more than a trifle of trepidation, I recently read Trevor Lwere’s column on the Russian invasion of Ukraine. As a history major, I heard the echoes of cowardly collaborationist quibbling from the dark days of 1940. Regrettably, Mr. Lwere’s article sought to throw the blame for the catastrophic war in Ukraine into the lap

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Putin isn’t the “defender of Christian values” evangelicals think he is

Blake Ziegler | Thursday, March 3, 2022

Like most people, I’ve spent the last week reading and watching updates on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. There’s been innumerable analyses and columns in the media about the ramifications of the conflict, the potential for escalation to global war, the heroism displayed by the Ukrainians and much more. One phenomenon in particular

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Notre Dame community weighs in on Russia, Ukraine tensions

Liam Price | Monday, February 7, 2022

Since signing the Charter of the United Nations in 1945, the only violation of Article 2, Paragraph 4 of the charter, which declares that no state can use military force to conquer another state’s territory, was in 1990 when Iraq invaded Kuwait. Russia had about 130,000 troops stationed at the Ukrainian border, as of Feb.

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Professor lectures on post-communist transition and intervention

Marie Fazio | Tuesday, February 7, 2017

“President Putin’s goals are very simple: to ‘Make Russia Great Again.’” George Liber, professor in the department of history at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, said this in his lecture Monday night called “Back to the Future: Soviet Collapse, the Long Post-Communist Transition and Putin’s Interventions in Ukraine, 2004-2014.” This talk, sponsored by the Nanovic Institute

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On policy, Clinton crushes Trump

Neil Joseph | Tuesday, September 20, 2016

For the last year, commentators, TV personalities and seemingly every person in America (including me) has written about the danger that Donald Trump presents. Whether it’s the things he says, the hatred he taps into, or the way he treats his peers, he’s been criticized in so many different ways. Personally, these things are disqualifying

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Re-evaluating Putin: part two

Stephen Raab | Tuesday, March 17, 2015

My first column for The Observer, published in April 2014, was “Re-evaluating Putin.” In it, I argued that the international community had been too harsh in its criticism of Russian president Vladimir Putin. While I acknowledged the missteps of the Putin administration (specifically on LGBT rights and foreign policy), I argued that he’d also been of great

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Reclaiming our international presence

Lukas O'Donnell | Monday, March 3, 2014

Is President Obama the next Jimmy Carter? In light of recent international events, this alarming question must be asked. The United States has battled the decline into the background of world affairs before in the 1970s, when nothing seemed to be going our way. Oil prices spiked out of control, Russia gained ground both internationally

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Hadley: Sochi creates a host of problems

Greg Hadley | Monday, February 10, 2014

If you’re like me, you’re exhausted with the endless snow and wind that keeps blasting South Bend. You’re looking for something – anything – to ward off the cabin fever that has set in. And if you’re like me, you have turned on the TV to watch the Winter Olympics, where the snow and ice