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18 March 2021

Cold War 2.0 or Mutual Understanding? China expert Orville Schell speaks at the Dukakis Center

Orville Schell, Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at Asia Society, is one of those rare public figures who can shift seamlessly from the esoteric to the essential, from the fictional to the factual, from philosophy to policy. This trait was in abundance this past Wednesday evening,… More

16 March 2021

Our heroes, our monster: lessons learned from the 3rd annual Thessaloniki Civil Society Forum

Front row, l-r: Nikos Zaharis, Epaminondas Christofilopoulos; back row, l-r: David Wisner, Anna Damaskou, Georgios Siakas

In 1995 the French journalist and scholar Jean Lacouture published a small book with a series of portraits of the figures who had “made” the world after World War II. Some were widely acknowledged to be monstrous for their misdeeds; others were the source of Lacouture’s personal inspiration. In a… More

16 March 2021

Dukakis Center hosts retired American diplomat Alec Mally

Ambasador Green at the US Embassy in Bucharest, December 1989

It was the summer of 1988. Alec Mally, a career foreign service officer, was completing a three-year stint as economics officer at the US Embassy in Manila. A sovietologist by inclination and training, with an interest in Eastern Europe, Mally was keen to land a spot on the far side of the Iron… More

17 February 2021

Meet Ilda Zhulali (ACT Class of 2001)

Note from the Editor: the text of the following interview first appeared on the ACT website. Ilda Zhulalia attending Michael Dukakis' inaugural address at Anatolia College in September 1999, which marked the launch of what was then known as the Dukakis Chair in Public Policy and Service. She participated in the… More

17 February 2021

Dukakis Center to launch new event series on China and the world

Former Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis has a long-standing interest in China and its standing in contemporary global affairs. He has been an advocate of talking with friends and foes alike, and of listening rather than dictating, and he has spoken at and animated numerous initiatives aimed at improving Sino-US understanding,… More

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