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A new report by UCLA’s WORLD Policy Analysis Center examines all 193 countries that are members of the United Nations.

Experts at a Zócalo/UCLA discussion say armed conflict between the United States and Pyongyang isn't inevitable.

In pre-World War II Germany, sports clubs became a vehicle to spread Nazism.

The grant will enable scholars to pursue new research, develop state-of-the-art digital resources and forge international collaborations.

UCLA researchers have launched a project to design policies in countries where corruption and conflict are undercutting natural abundance. The project's first summit is this week at UCLA.

James Gelvin suggests volunteers are drawn to a value system that asserts aggressive machismo, disparages work, and sustains the impulse for immediate gratification.

UCLA researchers’ analysis of posts in a forum on the website Stormfront shows coping mechanisms that range from rejection to reinterpretation to acceptance.

UCLA history professor Joan Waugh, one of the nation's preeminent scholars on the Civil War, shares how the historic era and the Confederacy touched the state.

On International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, Ulia Gosart takes stock of how far indigenous people have come on the world stage and how far they have to go.

Scholars answer questions about how to realistically assess these risks in light of what we do or do not know.

Once the lingua franca of Mexico, Nahuatl was eventually overtaken by Spanish. Today, the Aztec language is spoken only by 1.5 million people in Mexico, many of whom live in the state of Veracruz on the western edge of the Gulf of Mexico.

Research shows that Americans favor citizenship for those already here, but worry about allowing more in.

Haroon Azar, a 2008 graduate of the UCLA School of Law, will lead the program as director and a senior fellow at the Burkle Center.

The election pits Emmanuel Macron, who only recently created a new political movement, and seasoned politician Marine Le Pen, who leads the nationalist — some have said xenophobic — Front National.

Finance professor Bhagwan Chowdhry says protectionist barriers won’t stop robots from taking U.S. jobs.

UCLA professor’s analysis of nearly 14 million tweets from the Arab Spring showed that normal people drive huge movements.

Panelists and participants examined topics including genocide, the risks to civilians in war zones and the unforeseen effects of the security state.

UCLA sophomore Luke Mostert is a partner in a business that donates lanterns to children who live in shacks in electricity-deprived sections of his home country.

The researchers concluded that the UNAIDS approach would not be practical because it would require finding and treating a very large number of people in remote areas.

Ramesh Srinivasan, an associate professor of information studies, has studied revolutions in Egypt and Kyrgyzstan and the role of digital media in supporting indigenous communities.

While California has been a winner in the free trade world market in terms of its agricultural exports, gains in technology and location on the Pacific rim in close proximity to Asia, manufacturing centers in the Midwest like Detroit have lost good-paying union jobs.

David Hirsch is the librarian for Jewish, Middle Eastern, Central Asian, South Asian and Armenian studies at UCLA Library. It’s unusual for one person to have responsibility for so many different regions.

John Agnew, UCLA distinguished professor of geography, has spent his scholarly career examining the politics of place.

Dr. Ippolytos Kalofonos has woven together his interests in global health, medicine and culture into a career as a medical anthropologist.

James Gelvin coauthors an op-ed pointing out that because of wars what remains of Syria is severe unemployment, extreme poverty and public health disasters.