Andrew Stroehlein

Thursday, 24 November 2022

The Real Problem with Twitter

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One of the great advantages of social media is the way it has democratised communication. Not that everyone has an equal voice, but at least...
Monday, 12 April 2021

Dictators and Dissidents

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I've recently written two articles on authoritarianism for Persuasion .  One was an examination of some overlooked autocrats around the ...
Wednesday, 2 October 2019

Ghost City

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Former cathedral on former Kneiphof island in former Königsberg  Everywhere you go in Central Europe , you’re travelling to a place tha...
Friday, 15 March 2019

Beyond Samarkand

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I wrote this piece with Steve Swerdlow for Los Angeles Review of Books . ======= Yesterday, it rained forever; today, the mud is deep and...
Sunday, 3 September 2017

The Wasp Effect

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You, my dear and learned friends, are no doubt already very well aquatinted with the "Butterfly Effect", the notion that the gentl...
Friday, 10 March 2017

A Radical Idea for Europe

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The European Union’s 60th anniversary this month comes at a time when some political leaders are attracting significant popular support for ...
Monday, 7 September 2015

The trial of "Our Sonofabitch" in Africa

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This originally appeared in POLITICO Europe . ======= DAKAR, Senegal — They’re working on the hotel pool, which only reminds me of the mas...
Friday, 27 February 2015

Detaining the President’s Daughter

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I wrote this with my Human Rights Watch colleague Steve Swerdlow for openDemocracy . ======= A year ago, the daughter of Uzbekistan’s author...
Wednesday, 28 January 2015

Uzbekistan and the American Myth of “Strategic Patience”

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I wrote this with my Human Rights Watch colleague Steve Swerdlow for EurasiaNet . ======= When it comes to authoritarian Uzbekistan’s dis...
Wednesday, 21 May 2014

In Nigeria, a Troubling Impulse to Vigilantism

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As details emerge of yesterday’s bombings in the Nigerian city of Jos, it seems the horrific death toll – now 118 and counting, as rescue te...
Tuesday, 20 May 2014

What #BringBackOurGirls Looks Like From Nigeria’s Capital

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There’s nothing to see at first: a widening of the median between two busy lanes of Abuja traffic. A few people sit under scattered trees fi...
Thursday, 14 November 2013

Keeping Up with the Karimovs: No Matter Who Wins in Uzbekistan, Everyone Loses

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I wrote this piece with my HRW colleague Steve Swerdlow for Foreign Policy , which published it on 14 November 2013. ======= After 25 y...
Monday, 7 October 2013

“When the police want something, they just come and rob us”

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This article on police corruption in the street markets of Monrovia, Liberia, originally appeared in The Independent (UK) under the title ...
Tuesday, 2 July 2013

When J.Lo Sang for the Dictator

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My Human Rights Watch colleague, Rachel Denber, and I wrote this for The Wall Street Journal , where it appeared on 2 July 2013. ======= ...
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Friday, 25 January 2013

Tweets Can't Hide Uzbekistan's Woeful Record

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I wrote this with Steve Swerdlow, Central Asia researcher at Human Rights Watch, and CNN published it on 25 January 2013. ======= Recen...
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