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May 6, 2010
 In March – April 2010, Dr. Natalia Smirnova, Assistant Professor of Business and Economics at the College of Mount Saint Vincent, participated in the US Embassy Policy Specialist program. |
April 28, 2010
 In the wake of the recent political unrest in Kyrgyzstan, longtime IREX alumnus and Stetson University professor Eugene Huskey provided expert testimony to the US Congress on April 22. |
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March 11, 2010
 It began as a small-budget project intended to connect the scholarly community with US foreign policy practitioners in Eurasia. EPS scholars traveled to the region and served US Embassies and Consulates as policy specialists-in-residence for one to two months. |
November 17, 2009
 “We come from many places, but we share a common future,” President Barack Obama said in an address to the United Nations General Assembly this September. This statement could not be more fitting for International Education Week (November 16-20), which celebrates the benefits of international education and exchange worldwide. |
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October 2, 2009
 To remain competitive in the global economy, there is an increasing need for globally-aware young learners who are able to understand their peers in other countries and think critically outside of traditional subject areas. Creative, motivated educators are taking the lead in preparing these students, often despite large class sizes and limited resources. Some of these teachers use online tools to enable youth from the U.S. and nations as far away as Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan to see literally into each other’s classrooms. |
September 6, 2009
 Through IREX’s Title VIII Programs, Maria Sonevytsky (IARO) and Jeremy Tasch (EPS) were able to engage in field research in Ukraine and Azerbaijan respectively. |
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March 23, 2009
 On February 19, Mark Baskin (SUNY-Albany) and Paula Pickering (College of William and Mary) presented their research on local governance in the Balkans both to policymakers at the US Department of State and to an audience of individuals working on a variety of development projects in the Balkans and around the world at IREX. |
December 11, 2008
 As scholars arrived at the annual conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (held this year in Philadelphia, November 20-23) from all over the country, as well as other parts of the world, one could hear a variety of languages and discussions about research in nearly every discipline. In the exhibit hall, at the IREX booth, we were treated to wonderful stories of past fellowships, ideas for great new research, and memories of the challenges that faced academics prior to the development of IREX. |
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October 11, 2008
 In May, Dr. Elizabeth Anderson, newly appointed Assistant Professor in International Training at American University, took advantage of an IREX grant to embark on a journey aimed at understanding a major educational transition. As a specialist in international education and former Peace Corps volunteer in Moldova, Dr. Anderson sought to better understand the transition from the old Moldovan history curriculum to the new one, adopted in 2006. |
May 20, 2008
 The terms “frozen conflicts” and “unrecognized states” have commonly been used by analysts and researchers when referring to the current ethnic and separatist disputes in Eastern Europe and Eurasia that have continued over the course of many years—and in some cases over a decade—without resolution. In Eurasia alone, there are currently four such “frozen conflicts” resulting from the Soviet legacy: Transnistria (Moldova), Abkhazia (Georgia), South Ossetia (Georgia), and Nargorno-Karabakh (Armenia, Azerbaijan). |
