At a DUCIGS event, Harvard Professor Michael Sandel denounced what his most recent book describes as a corrosive view of success, "The Tyranny of Merit.”

Applications for refugee status in Mexico skyrocketed over the past decade, with a growing number of Haitians seeking protection in Mexico. In this brief, Duke Visiting Research Scholar Piotr Plewa explains the history of this trend and the migration policies put in place by Mexican authorities.

DUCIGS' Rethinking Diplomacy Program (RDP) kicked off its third year with a talk on Anticipatory Diplomacy, a "diplomacy-science" partnership to tackle global challenges before positions harden. Former U.S. Ambassadors W. Robert Pearson (RDP fellow) and Marcie Ries were joined by National Science Policy Network chair, Lindsey Gray.

DUCIGS Visiting Research Scholar Hiroyuki Hino pays tribute to a Kenyan paleoanthropologist and conservationist Richard Leakey, who passed away on 2nd January 2022 at the age of 77. DUCIGS and Duke's Africa Initiative hosted Dr. Richard Leakey on October 22, 2019 for a public lecture in the Nasher Museum of Art.