Dan Runde

Jul 14, 2024 | jstribune.com | Eric Edelman |Dan Runde |Amir Oren |Bogdan Polovko

On July 8, Russia launched a barrage of missiles that hit the Okhmatdyt Children’s Hospital in Kyiv, killing at least 38 persons. One missile demolished the ward which cared for child patients on dialysis. The explosion was so powerful that the top floor of the building collapsed; the shockwave and secondary shrapnel destroyed two other wards. Ukrainians knew a terrible thing had happened but after the initial shock, there was no despair.

Jul 8, 2024 | jstribune.com | Amir Oren |Yaakov Lappin |Ahmed Charai |Dan Runde

Paraguay is at a hinge moment in its history, with the election last year of a new president. With small steps, the United States could make a significant difference. This collaboration would both enhance Paraguay’s development and its status as a US ally. The country’s biggest constraint, however, is corruption. and more engagement from the US and new offers of deeper partnership in exchange for governance reforms may be the format for enabling change in Paraguay.

Jun 24, 2024 | jstribune.com | Jacob Heilbrunn |Robert Silverman |Dan Negrea |Dan Runde

The story is told of an American journalist who went to Israel for a three-day visit. When asked on the second day what she was writing, she replied, ‘a book with the title: “Israel, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow.”’Dahlia Scheindlin is the opposite of that journalist. For 25 years, she has lived and worked in Israel as a pollster, consultant and journalist. Now she has written a deeply researched history of the State of Israel’s democracy.

May 16, 2023 | deseret.com | Dan Runde

In 1992, the year after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the political scientist Francis Fukuyama published "The End of History and the Last Man." This seminal work of political philosophy argued that civilization had reached "the end-point of mankind's ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government." The world was experiencing a wave of democratization, not just in the former Soviet states in Eastern and Central Europe, but...