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From Ferguson to Baltimore, racially-linked police brutality has captured Americans' attention. President Barack Obama's Task Force on 21st Century Policing recently presented a number of solutions to this phenomenon.
.We welcomed one of the members of this task force for a discussion on potential paths and to evaluate the possible role of police violence in the 2016 presidential campaign.
Intervenants
Tracey Meares, Walton Hale Hamilton Professor of Law at Yale University and member of the President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing
Discussant : Antoine Garapon, Secretary General of l'Institut des hautes études sur la Justice
Introduction : Patrick Weil, Director of Research at CNRS, at the Centre d’histoire sociale du XXe siècle de l'Université Paris I
Facilitator : Laurence Nardon, Head of the United States program, IFRI
Listen to Tracey discussing police brutality on BBC World Service
To learn more about her research click here.
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Nuclear Sharing in Europe: A Contested Policy That Endures
Since the end of the Cold War, the number of US nuclear weapons stationed in Europe has fallen more than seventy-fold, yet their presence in Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Turkey remains a quiet pillar of NATO's deterrence posture. This "nuclear sharing" arrangement, central to the Alliance since its founding, has long been contested by public opinion, political parties, and civil society across Europe, without ever being abandoned by host governments. This paradox lies at the heart of the seminar: why does such an unpopular policy persist?