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Local news turns to Furman’s Brent Nelsen for comment on the war in Israel
FOX Carolina taps the expertise of Brent Nelsen in the Department of Politics and International Affairs about the Israel-Hamas war that erupted over the weekend.
Continue ReadingA letter from Poland: A Chicago native gives a Ukrainian woman shelter while war rages
John Banka, a 1977 Furman University urban studies alumnus who works in Warsaw, has a front-row seat to the scene unfolding in Ukraine and the flood of refugees into Poland the Russia attack has spawned....
Continue ReadingNelsen weighs in on sanctions against Russia
When Russia invaded Ukraine, Greenville TV stations called on Brent Nelsen, professor of politics and international affairs, to put the action in context and to explain the political reaction by the United States and other...
Continue ReadingSC veterans and families reflect on those who died as America withdraws from Afghanistan
In a Memorial Day tribute appearing in The Post and Courier, reporter Thomas Novelly reaches out to South Carolina family members who have lost loved ones during America's longest war and reflects on other South...
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