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Ed Hancox

When not writing about international affairs, Ed Hancox works in nonprofit development. He holds a M.A. degree in International Affairs from The New School where he worked as a research associate on a project examining Russia's transition from Communism. Before earning his Masters, Ed worked as a journalist, a disc jockey and as a technical writer with a multi-national electronics firm. His writings on global affairs can also be found at A World View.

Ed is also the Managing Editor of The Mantle. He can be reached at ed(at)mantlethought.org.


Articles

  • Friday, July 23, 2010

    Putin's Oil has all the makings of a thriller novel: conspiracies, Kremlin politics, double agents, corporate espionage, mysterious deaths, and exile to Siberia. Except this is the...

  • Thursday, May 13, 2010

    Necessity is the mother of all invention, so the saying goes. In a rural village in Malawi, William Kamkwamba needed electricity. So, he figured out how to build a windmill to generate power. It...

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The 101

Did you ever think that there’s more going on in the world than what you hear on CNN/MSNBC/FOX? Are you interested in global events, but feel like you need an advanced degree to really understand what’s going on? Don’t worry, I have one.

The goal of "The 101" is to breakdown some of the complex issues in international affairs, to give you the background and context you need to better understand them, to raise some questions that the purveyors of conventional wisdom are missing, and to do it all in a way that you won’t need a PhD in International Affairs to understand.

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