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Africa after COVID-19: Charting a New Path for Economic Growth and Development

Join IAfS for a discussion with Dr. Ibrahim Mayaki, CEO of the African Union Development Agency/NEPAD; Dr. Vera Songwe, Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Africa, and Ms. Swazi Tshabalala (invited), on charting Africa's path out of economic crisis toward a more resilient future. 

Africa after COVID-19

Join IAfS for a discussion with Dr. Ibrahim Mayaki, CEO of the African Union Development Agency/NEPAD; Dr. Vera Songwe, Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Africa, and Dr. Khaled Sherif,  African Development Bank Vice President for Regional Development, Integration and Business Delivery, on charting Africa's path out of economic crisis toward a more resilient future. 

India's Federal Finances in COVID Times

The concept of the Finance Commission is embedded in the constitutional history of India. In a sense, it is even older than our Constitution. The Finance Commission has been described as the balancing wheel in the Constitution because it is designed to correct the structural and inherent imbalances between the resources and the expenditure of the Union and the States.

Where Great Powers Meet: America and China in Southeast Asia

Join us for a talk between Dean Alyssa Ayres and Professor David Shambaugh of the Elliott School on his latest book.

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Myanmar Coup and Going Forward

GWISA, the LEAP Initiative, and the Sigur Center for Asian Studies, invites Dr. Christina Fink as the moderator, Dr. MieMie Wynn Byrd as our expert panel speaker, and two Burmese students to discuss the most recent coup that took place in Myanmar on February 1, 2021.

"The State of American Leadership and Ethics Today" with Amb. Norm Eisen

Amb. Norm Eisen will discuss some of the proposals put forth in an upcoming Brookings report about restoring ethics and the rule of law to the federal government after four years of the Trump administration. He’ll also get into the damage wrought by Trump’s enablers, including some of the divergences between McConnell and McCarthy, along with the disastrous Trump legal team and the harm they visited upon our democracy post-election

Rethinking Financial Regulation for the 21st Century

In his new book, Taming the Megabanks: Why We Need a New Glass-Steagall Act (Oxford University Press, 2020), Professor Emeritus Arthur E. Wilmarth, Jr. calls for a new Glass-Steagall Act that would separate banks from the securities markets, as the original Glass-Steagall Act did from 1933 through the 1980s.

Diverse Perspectives in IA: Women's History Month and South Asian Heritage

Join GW's Director of the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program, Dr. Kavita Daiya, for her book launch of 'Graphic Migrations: Precarity and Gender in India and the Diaspora'

The Lived Nile

In October 1902, the reservoir of the first Aswan Dam filled, and Egypt's relationship with the Nile River forever changed. Flooding villages of historical northern Nubia and filling the irrigation canals that flowed from the river, the perennial Nile not only reshaped agriculture and the environment, but also Egypt's colonial economy and forms of subjectivity.