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Gracie Webb

Gracie is a 3rd year student pursuing a Joint Honours degree in Political Science and World Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies. She specializes in American and Middle Eastern politics, with a focus on Turkey. Her personal ambition is to adopt three beagles and name them Ruth, Bader, and Ginsburg.

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In Defense of Citizen Diplomacy

Gracie Webb Apr 1, 2017

On September 10th, 2001, a phone call between two high-priority Al-Qaeda operatives in Afghanistan was intercepted by U.S. intelligence. The NSA didn’t have enough linguists, and the Arabic language phone call entered a long line of…
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Asia Pacific

Counting on China: The World Faces North Korea’s Renewed Instability

Gracie Webb Feb 27, 2017

North Korea tends to cycle in and out of the news, making headlines with a missile test or absurd proclamation before retreating into its role as the world’s pariah. This week, the country’s mercurial leader, Kim Jung Un, stayed in the news…
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Desperation in Yemen: Houthi Government Complicates Peace Process

Gracie Webb Dec 14, 2016

On November 28th, the Houthi rebels fighting the Yemeni government declared a government after twenty months of futile conflict. Diplomats were hoping that the rebels would agree to form a unity government as part of a peace process, but…
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Africa

The ICC’s Quest for Accountability Continues

Gracie Webb Nov 20, 2016

While international convention has allowed states to punish global piracy since antiquity, perpetrators of genocide were largely able to avoid the same international culpability until the establishment of the UN’s anti-genocide treaty in…
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