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2 weeks ago | 
nybooks.com | Dahlia Krutkovich |Caitlin L Chandler
On March 6, 2025, the NYR Online published Caitlin L. Chandler’s dispatch from an uneasy Munich Security Conference. The MSC began during the cold war as an annual summit for West German military brass and their NATO counterparts to coordinate against the Soviet threat. Since then, Chandler notes, it has become known as “Davos with guns,” a convention for CEOs, politicians, defense contractors, policy wonks, and consulting firms to celebrate the transatlantic alliance.
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1 month ago | 
almendron.com | Caitlin L Chandler
On the first morning of the Munich Security Conference, February 14, I arrived at the press office to request an escort to enter the Bayerischer Hof, the opulent hotel that hosts this annual convening of politicians, generals, weapons manufacturers, and technology companies. The room looked like an airport lounge—gleaming white tables with copies of Foreign Policy, an inaudible conference livestream—and vibrated with the energy of journalists from around the world begging to get inside.
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1 month ago | 
africasacountry.com | Loren Balhorn |William Shoki |Tom Menger |Caitlin L Chandler
WS The February 23 election produced some interesting results. The CDU has returned to power, while the far-right AfD secured its best-ever election result. How should we interpret this shift? Is it part of a broader rightward turn in European politics, or are domestic factors driving this change? LB Well, there’s definitely a European context to this shift. That much is obvious.
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1 month ago | 
nybooks.com | Caitlin L Chandler
At the city’s annual international security conference, European leaders vowed to double down on national defense. At what cost?
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1 month ago | 
thedial.world | Caitlin L Chandler
As the conference proceeded, I heard more European defense leaders remark that they hoped they had finally gotten the push from the Americans they needed to militarize. “Can Europe get its shit together?” a delegate asked. For Oliver Stuenkel, a political scientist currently based at Harvard’s Kennedy School, it might not be possible.
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2 months ago | 
africasacountry.com | Kathryn Mathers |Alex Park |Caitlin L Chandler
Why am I disgusted by the Trump administration’s pause on USAID projects and funds? Humanitarian aid has always been part of a neocolonial project, and I have spent decades critiquing the work it does in Africa, especially how it produces a kind of imagined Africa and propagates a set of ideas about what the continent needs (see my book White Saviorism and Popular Culture and the forthcoming documentary When I Say Africa).
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Dec 17, 2024 | 
nybooks.com | Caitlin L Chandler
1. Druskininkai is a hilly, forested area in southern Lithuania, near the border with Belarus and Poland. Its name derives from druska, which means salt. Over thirty mineral springs pocket the ground. Since the nineteenth century residents of the capital, Vilnius, have flocked to spas there to bathe in the calcium-rich waters. Today the city of Druskininkai is known for its mud baths and amber therapies.
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Aug 19, 2024 | 
nautil.us | Caitlin L Chandler
Join ADVERTISEMENT Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. or Join now . Philosophy In solitude, this modern priest is meditating on timeless questions. Sign up for the free Nautilus newsletter: When you are ahermit living alone in the Italian Alps, you monitor the weather. Snow means you can’t get groceries for a week. Rain will nourish the vegetable garden but also erode the hillside and send water into every crack in the roof.
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Jul 3, 2024 | 
newsbreak.com | Caitlin L Chandler
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Jul 3, 2024 | 
thedial.world | Caitlin L Chandler
In September 2023, something unusual happened on the tiny Italian island of Lampedusa: The detention center for asylum-seekers threw open its doors. Lampedusa, which is part of the Sicily region, is the first point of arrival in the European Union for many African refugees and immigrants crossing the Mediterranean Sea from Libya and Tunisia.
