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• China’s Belt and Road Initiative: What Is Its Purpose?

  • When
    Wednesday, March 04, 2020
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    5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
  • Location
    The Madison Club, 5 E Wilson St

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  Dinny McMahon is a Fellow at MacroPolo, a program of the Paulson Institute. He was a Kissinger Institute Fellow from 2015-2016. Prior to his Wilson Center residency, he was a journalist with the Wall Street Journal in Beijing where he wrote about China’s banking and financial sector, focusing on rising debt levels, urbanization and the role of the state sector in the economy. Previously Dinny wrote about the yuan and China's foreign exchange market in Shanghai for Dow Jones Newswires, and contributed to the Far Eastern Economic Review.
  

  Dinny has a double degree from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, majoring in economics and Chinese. He also attended the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies program in Nanjing. Dinny speaks Chinese and has lived 13 years in China.

  
  

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• Ukraine’s Civil Society and Its Continuing Struggle for Democracy

  • When
    Tuesday, April 21, 2020
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    5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
  • Location
    Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St

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  This event is co-sponsored by the UW International Division

  Ukraine’s Revolution of Dignity is widely known for producing a major political shakeup in 2014 that disrupted corrupt political networks, triggered Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea, and sparked a conflict with Russian-backed separatists in the Donbas.  Meanwhile, new generations of Ukrainians have formed increasingly powerful civil society organizations tasked with holding their government accountable. Heavily dependent on both the financial and diplomatic assistance of their international partners (especially the United States), civil society actors face a number of obstacles in their fight for democracy.  

  Christopher D. Russell is a Strategic Policy Analyst at the Enhance Non-governmental Actors and Grassroots Engagement (USAID/ENGAGE) activity in Kyiv, Ukraine. He is a former Title VIII Research Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Kennan Institute and a Fulbright Public Policy Fellow in Ukraine.  He received a Juris Doctorate and Masters of International Public Affairs in 2016  from the UW Law School and the La Follette School of Public Affairs, respectively.

  
  

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