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Naomi Schalit

Senior Editor, The Conversation

Naomi Schalit is U.S. senior politics and democracy editor for The Conversation.
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This isn’t how wars are ended: a veteran diplomat puts Trump-Putin summit in context

Hastily convened without Ukrainian input, the summit is "amateurish and is unlikely to yield real results," says Donald Heflin, now a Tufts professor.

  • Donald Heflin and Naomi Schalit, The Conversation
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‘I see no happy ending’, former intelligence leader says of Gaza hostage situation

Gregory F. Treverton, a former chairman of the National Intelligence Council in the Obama administration, looks at why hostage-takers act—and why governments deal.

  • Naomi Schalit, The Conversation
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‘Once You Engage in Political Violence, It Becomes Easier to Do It Again’

A conversation with Ore Koren, a scholar of civil conflict and political violence.

  • Naomi Schalit, The Conversation