Thomas Kent

Thomas Kent

Adjunct Associate Professor, International & Public Affairs

Columbia University

12th Floor, International Affairs Building

914-630-0893

tjk17@columbia.edu

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International News: Reporting, Propaganda, Russia and the Geopolitics of Information

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Rebecca Kobrin in the Washington Post on the White House's Isolationist Agenda

Monday, July 13, 2020

Rebecca Kobrin (Russell and Bettina Knapp Associate Professor of American Jewish History) writes in the Washington Post that the Trump administration’s handling of the coronavirus is isolating the U.S. even further and that reduced immigration and travel restrictions on Americans abroad shrink our world.

Lara J. Nettelfield on the 25th Anniversary of Srebrenica

Monday, July 13, 2020

On the 25th anniversary of the Srebrenica Genocide, Lara J. Nettelfield discussed how the search for the missing has evolved over time in an op-ed for Kosovo 2.0, which appeared in English and in Bosnian. It was also reprinted by openDemocracy.

Greta Matzner-Gore (HI Postdoc 2014-15) Interviewed on the Bloggers Karamazov about Her New Book

Friday, July 10, 2020

Greta Matzner-Gore (Assistant Professsor, Slavic Languages, USC) was interviewed by the Bloggers Karamazov (North American Dostoevsky Society) about her new book Dostoevsky and the Ethics of Narrative Form: Suspense, Closure, Minor Characters (Northwestern University Press).

Mark Mazower Contributes Review Essay on Eric Hobsbawm to NYRB

Thursday, July 9, 2020

Mark Mazower (Ira D. Wallach Professor of World Order Studies; Director, Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination) reviews Richard Evans' Eric Hobsbawm: A Life in History for the New York Review of Books (July 23, 2020).

Aleksandar Bošković to Co-Direct East Central European Center

Wednesday, July 8, 2020

We are pleased to announce that Aleksandar Bošković has joined Christopher Harwood to co-direct our East Central European Center.

Kimberly Marten Delivered Congressional Testimony

Wednesday, July 8, 2020

Kimberly Marten testified before the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, Energy and the Environment. Her testimony centered on how the Russian political system works today, the role of the military intelligence agency (the GRU), and the role of the Wagner Group “private” military company and Russian businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin. Read and watch the testimony.

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