Lauren Herzer Risi
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
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- Aug 7, 2026
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Behind the Ceuta Surge: Q&A with Peter Schwartzstein and Dimitrios Kantemnidis (opens the original)
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Last week, an estimated 60,000 Moroccans crossed the border into Ceuta, a Spanish city located in North Africa. The surge left more than 80 people dead, and early reporting suggested that the Moroccan authorities encouraged, or at least enabled, the border crossing. Subsequent reports, however, focused on a snowballing effect of misinformation spread through social media after a Spanish ruling that prevented authorities from returning migrants who arrive in Ceuta by sea without due process. This
What Demographic Trends Mean for U.S. Policy (opens the original)
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Excerpted from the Environmental Security Program’s new issue brief, What Demographic Trends Mean for U.S. Policy — full brief available on the Stimson Center website. Population dynamics underpin many of today’s most urgent societal challenges, yet these factors are rarely mentioned in policy discussions. As Cornell University demographer Parfait Eloundou-Enyegue notes, “If there is any century in which we have to think carefully about population, it is this century.” The 21st century is define
Unpacking New Data on Women’s Autonomy in West Africa: A Conversation with Afrobarometer’s Joseph Asunka and the Ouagadougou Partnership’s Marie Ba (opens the original)
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Nearly two-thirds of citizens across seven Ouagadougou Partnership countries say women should be free to decide if and when to marry, but fewer than half believe women should have the same say over how many children to have, or when. That gap, surfaced in Afrobarometer’s latest survey results, is at the center of a new Stimson Center interview with Joseph Asunka, CEO of Afrobarometer, and Marie Ba, Director of the Ouagadougou Partnership Coordination Unit, covering what the data shows, what it c
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