Blogs from the NYU Wagner Community

Category: Op Ed

                • 05/08/2013
                  Look to Syria For How to Build a Democracy in the Middle East
                  By Patrick Lamson-Hall Free Syrians held elections March 3rd to choose twenty-five representatives for the newly formed Aleppo provincial and city councils. Aleppo, which has been torn by bitter fighting between rebels and the government of President Bashar Assad, has not seen free elections since the ascension of Assad’s father in 1973.
                  – The Wagner Review
                • 05/05/2013
                  Expansion without maintenance risks subway system’s decline
                  After two years of delays and cost overruns on a badly needed renovation, the elevated subway station at Smith and 9th Streets in Brooklyn reopened for use on Friday, April 26. The station is the closest one in the system to the neighborhood of Red Hook, which is otherwise strangled by the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway.
                  – The Wagner Review
                • 04/22/2013
                  U.S. must pursue multilateral negotiations, not war, to achieve a Syrian peace
                    The Syrian Civil War has no end in sight. Had President Bashar al-Assad stepped down in August 2011–when the international community called for his resignation–countless lives would have been saved.
                  – The Wagner Review
                • 04/01/2013
                  Cyprus: Fantasy Island
                  “Troika prints Euros and buys nations,” reads a protest sign from March 25 in Nicosia, the center of Cypriot government and, these days, fervent patriotism. “Hands off Cyprus” is the common refrain of the ongoing financial crisis that envelops this Mediterranean island and threatens the beleaguered fiscal stability of the European Union.
                  – The Wagner Review