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World Outlook is a student-run, peer-reviewed international affairs journal at the Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth College. In "The Outlook," we publish outstanding commentary by Dartmouth students and undergraduates worldwide.

  1. 11/11/2025

    A Conversation with Geeta Anand | 10/21/2025

    Anika Mukker ‘26; Daphna Fineberg ‘26; Victor Lago ‘26; and Sophia Sahni ‘28 sit down for a conversation with Geeta Anand.  Geeta Anand ‘89 is editor-in-chief of VTDigger. A Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, author and former university dean, Anand brings nearly 30 years of experience in investigative and public service journalism to the role. Anand served as dean of the University of California Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and worked as a foreign correspondent for The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, reporting from India on a range of international issues. Anand began her career in Vermont, covering southern Vermont and Rutland for The Rutland Herald, where her reporting on credit reporting errors led to congressional action. She later covered City Hall for The Boston Globe and is the author of “The Cure,” a book about a family’s search for medical answers that was adapted into the film “Extraordinary Measures,” starring Harrison Ford

    20 min

  2. 11/11/2025

    A Conversation with Mona El Naggar | 03/04/2025

    Victor Lago ‘26, Madeline Shaw '25, and Sophia Sahni ‘28 sit down for a conversation with Mona El Naggar. Mona El-Naggar is an international correspondent and documentary filmmaker with twenty years of experience producing and driving award-winning work for the New York Times. She is an expert in Middle East politics, religion, women, youth, and culture, and has reported in nearly every country in the Arab world. Based in Cairo, she authors stories that cover gender issues, war and conflict, and the changing political and social dynamics shaping everyday life. El-Naggar holds a BA in Political Economy from Georgetown University and a MA in News and Documentary from New York University. She was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for international reporting, an Emmy Nominee for news and documentary, and the recipient of numerous awards, including the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) Best of Photojournalism Award.

    37 min

  3. 11/11/2025

    A Conversation with Nicholas Opiyo | 10/27/2025

    Victor Lago ‘26, Sophia Sahni ‘28, Alex Rockmore ‘27, Hannah McGee ‘27, Amber Pascovici ‘29, and Victoria Webb ‘29 sit down for a conversation with Nicholas Opiyo. Nicholas Opiyo is the Senior Director for Human Rights at the African Middle Eastern Leadership Project, and a Frontline Fellow with the Renew Democracy Initiative. He is an award-winning human rights attorney and democracy and justice advocate from Uganda, where he founded a civil rights charity and was targeted and attacked for his work. Nicholas has fought for electoral security, free speech, free press, and LGBTQ rights in Uganda.

    25 min

  4. 11/11/2025

    A Conversation with Rose Gottemoller | 04/03/2025

    Pranav Akella ‘27 sits down for a conversation with Rose Gottemoller. Gottemoeller was the Deputy Secretary General of NATO from 2016 to 2019, where she helped to drive forward NATO’s adaptation to new security challenges in Europe and in the fight against terrorism. Prior to NATO, she served for nearly five years as the Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security at the U.S. Department of State, advising the Secretary of State on arms control, nonproliferation and political-military affairs. While Assistant Secretary of State for Arms Control, Verification and Compliance in 2009 and 2010, she was the chief U.S. negotiator of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) with the Russian Federation. Prior to her government service, she was a social scientist at RAND and a Council on Foreign Relations international affairs fellow, as well as a senior associate with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, with joint appointments to the Nonproliferation and Russia programs. She served as the Director of the Carnegie Moscow Center from 2006 to 2008, and is currently a nonresident fellow in Carnegie's Nuclear Policy Program. She is also the William J. Perry Lecturer at Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Research Fellow at the Hoover Institute, where she teaches and mentors students in the Ford Dorsey Master’s in International Policy program and the CISAC Honors program; contributes to policy research and outreach activities; and convenes workshops, seminars and other events relating to her areas of expertise, including nuclear security, Russian relations, the NATO alliance, EU cooperation and non-proliferation.

    24 min

  5. 10/21/2025

    A Conversation with Candace Rondeaux | 04/09/2025

    Daphna Fineberg ‘26, Pranav Akella ‘27, Alex Rockmore ‘27, and Sophia Kohmann ‘28 sit down for a conversation with Candace Rondeaux. Candace Rondeaux directs Future Frontlines at New America. Future Frontlines is a public intelligence service for next generation security and democratic resilience. A journalist and public policy analyst, she is a professor of practice and fellow at the Melikian Center for Russian, Eurasian, and East European Studies and the Center on the Future of War at Arizona State University. She is a columnist for the World Politics Review and a contributing writer for the Daily Beast. Catalyzing the global human pursuit of dignity, justice, equity, transparency, and accountability is a through line in all her work. Her forthcoming book, “Putin’s Sledgehammer: The Wagner Group and Russia’s Collapse into Mercenary Chaos,” will be published in May 2025 by Public Affairs. Before joining New America, Rondeaux served as a senior program officer at the U.S. Institute of Peace where she launched the RESOLVE Network, a global research consortium on conflict and violent extremism and as a strategic advisor to the U.S. Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction.  She holds a B.A. in Russian area studies from Sarah Lawrence College, an M.A. in journalism from New York University, and an M.P.P. in public policy from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.

    38 min

  6. 10/21/2025

    A Conversation with Dr. Yael Berda | 05/01/2025

    Daphna Fineberg ‘26, Anika Mukker '26, Hrishik Roy ‘27, and Naomi Franzblau ‘28 sit down for a conversation with Dr. Yael Berda.   Dr. Yael Berda is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Hebrew University and Academy Scholar for International and Area Studies at Harvard University. Previously, Berda was the Gerard Weinstock Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Harvard University and an Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International & Regional Studies, WCFIA from 2014-2017. Berda has taught at Princeton, NYU, Tel Aviv University and Jindal Global University. She received her PhD from Princeton University; her MA from Tel Aviv University, and her LLB from Hebrew University faculty of Law. She was a practicing Human Rights lawyer, representing clients in Military, District and Supreme courts in Israel. Her most recent book is Living Emergency: Israel's Permit Regime in the West Bank (Stanford University Press, 2017). Berda is currently working on a book manuscript entitled: "The File and the Checkpoint: The Administrative Memory of the British Empire". Her other research projects are about the construction of loyalty of civil servants in Israel and India, the use of emergency laws to shape the political economy of colonial states, and colonial legacies of law and administration that shape contemporary homeland security practices in postcolonial states. She publishes, teaches and speaks on the intersections of sociology of law, bureaucracy and the state, race and racism and sociology of empires.

    29 min

  7. 10/18/2025

    A Conversation with Henry Wooster | 05/13/2025

    Daphna Fineberg ‘26, Fiona Hood ‘26, Ryder Zufi ‘28, Eli Jacobs ‘28, Pranav Akella ‘27, and Madeleine Shaw ‘25 sit down for a conversation with Henry Wooster. Henry T. Wooster serves as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs.  He served as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan from September 2020 to July 2023, and prior to his Ambassadorship, as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Maghreb and Egypt. He is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service. Previously, he was the Deputy of Chief of Mission in Paris and Chargé d’Affaires, a.i. at U.S. Embassy Amman. Prior to those assignments, he was Political Counselor at U.S. Embassy Islamabad.Henry T. Wooster serves as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs.  He served as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan from September 2020 to July 2023, and prior to his Ambassadorship, as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Maghreb and Egypt. He is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service. Previously, he was the Deputy of Chief of Mission in Paris and Chargé d’Affaires, a.i. at U.S. Embassy Amman. Prior to those assignments, he was Political Counselor at U.S. Embassy Islamabad.

    28 min

  8. 10/18/2025

    A Conversation with Rania Aziz | 03/05/2025

    Daphna Fineberg ‘26, Pranav Akella ‘27, Sophia Kohmann ‘28, and Sophia Sahni ‘28 sit down for a conversation with Rania Aziz. Rania Aziz is Sudanese activist who is deeply enmeshed in Sudan’s transformative landscape. She played a pivotal role in the revolution as a former member of the Sudanese Professional Association. Within the MANSAM Coalition, she championed women’s involvement in the transition government and spearheaded civil service reforms. As the founder of the Interconnect Initiative, she underscores the importance of movement building and psychological resilience. Actively engaging on both local and international platforms, she generously shares her expertise with activists worldwide, fostering solidarity and empowering marginalized voices in the pursuit of social change.

    21 min
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World Outlook is a student-run, peer-reviewed international affairs journal at the Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth College. In "The Outlook," we publish outstanding commentary by Dartmouth students and undergraduates worldwide.

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