CASI welcomes all new and returning Penn students to campus! Best wishes for a terrific fall semester!
CASI in the News
CASI Director, Devesh Kapur was quoted in an August 16, 2017 CNN Money article by Parija Kavilanz titled "Young Indian Engineer Leaves Silicon Valley to Find Success Back in India."
Intelligence and Foreign Policymaking in India
Avinash Paliwal
August 28, 2017
In this issue of India in Transition, Avinash Paliwal, Lecturer in Diplomacy and Public Policy, Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy, SOAS, University of London, argues that declassifying historical documents and accepting parliamentary oversight is critical to ensure the functioning of India's external intelligence agency is optimized, and for the agency to prevent itself from becoming a tool of abuse by the political leadership.
CASI Student Programs
More CASI Student Programs blog entries from summer interns were recently featured in Penn News Today:
Ila Sethi C'20 (Public Health Foundation of India) in the August 21, 2017 issue as "Cultural Diversity."
Kristina Nielsen, 2017 Travel Funds for Research awardee, in the August 17, 2017 issue as "The Local Global."
Students have returned from India and are back on campus. Keep reading the CASI Student Programs blog as they continue to reflect on their internships, travels, and experiences. To receive the blog updates as an email, click on the plus sign in the bottom right corner and enter your email address. You can also follow CASI Student Programs on Instagram @casistudentprograms
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Questions about CASI Student Programs?
Please contact Aparna Wilder, Associate Director, CASI Student Programs and Outreach apwilder@sas.upenn.edu
Upcoming Seminars
(More info coming soon)
September 22, 2017, 12:00 noon at CASI
Ajay Verghese (Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of California, Riverside)
October 24, 2017, 12:00 noon at CASI
Francesca Jensenius (Senior Research Fellow, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs)
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