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Dear Readers,I am sorry to say that I have decided to suspend the publication of new posts on GeoCurrents for at least one year.  I will reconsider this decision in June 2017, and I may begin posting again at that time.I have very much enjoyed writing for this site, and I do hope to return to it at some time. Jump to more recent posts Read the full story Dear Readers,The slides from my final lecture of the academic year are available at the link below. The lecture examined the impending legalization of cannabis in California, as well as its status elsewhere in the world.Cannabis Legalization Dear Readers,The slides from my recent lecture on the U.S. primary presidential elections of 2016 are found at the link below:2016 US Primary Election Dear Readers,My lecture this week for my class on the history and geography of current global events focused on the good news from Sub-Saharan Africa, particularly the southern half of the continent. The slides are available at the link here:  Good News From Africa Dear Readers,The slides from my recent lecture on caste controversies in India and on a related controversy about teaching Indian/South Asian history in California are available at the link below:Caste Controversies in India The slides from my lecture last week on the South China Sea and China s Geopolitical Strategies are available at the link below:South China Sea; China s Geopolitical Strategy The slides from my lecture this week on the upcoming Brexit vote and the rise of populist Euroscepticism across Europe are available at the link below:Brexit Populist Euroscepticism The slides from my lecture this week on the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the Nagorno-Karabakh region are available at the link below, in pdf format.Armenia, Azerbaijan Nagorno Karabakh Dear Readers,My lecture this week for my course on the history and geography of current global events examined the Kurds and the idea of Kurdistan. The slides from this lecture are available at the link below.Lecture on the Kurds and Kurdistan [Part 1 can be read here. Thanks to Iryna Novosyolova for a helpful discussion of some of the issues discussed in this post.]In 2014, the Russian Federation acquired another Muslim group that may prove troublesome both within Russia and globally: the Crimean Tatars. According to the 2002 Russian census, there were only 4,131 Crimean Tatars living in the country, concentrated [Thanks to Iryna Novosyolova for a helpful discussion of some of the issues discussed in this post.]A recent article in Foreign Affairs listed the use of the French language as the best predictor of a country’s rate of Sunni radicalization and violence, and particularly of the percentage of a country’s Muslim population that joins in the international Jihad. According to This week s lecture on the history and geography of current global events examined the on-going political and economic crisis in Brazil.  The lecture slides, converted to PDF format, can be found at the links below. (As the file was large, it was divided into two parts.)I ended the lecture with some images and comments pertaining to my frustrations with the idea As several readers noted that they were unable to open the PowerPoint version of my ISIS lecture slides, I tried to post them in the original Keynote format.  Unfortunately, the file was too large to post.  As a result, I decided to export the file and post it instead as a PDF.  That version is available here at the link.(You can Dear Readers,For the next 10 weeks I will be teaching a lecture course on the history and geography of current events, which is offered in two versions, one for Stanford students and the other for the community at large through Stanford’s Continuing Studies Program. This class is very demanding on me, as I must come up with new 70-minute lectures About GeoCurrents GeoCurrents is a forum dedicated to exploring the peoples, places, genes, and languages that are shaping current events around the world.The aim of GeoCurrents is not to take sides on any of these events, but to help foster an enriching and respectful exchange of information and ideas.For more about GeoCurrents and its author, please visit this page. Subscribe By Email Would you like new GeoCurrents posts in your inbox?Subscribe with your email address:Other ways to get GC updates:

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