Nora Cyra graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 2021 with a double major in International Relations and Russian & Eurasian Studies. While at Mount Holyoke, she worked as a research assistant, interned for the German Marshall Fund's Alliance for Securing Democracy, and studied in Moscow in 2019. Nora's undergraduate thesis examined the opportunities for confidence-building measures in the unresolved conflicts of the former Soviet Union, and her ongoing research interests include conflict resolution opportunities and experiences in this region.

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Successful Tactics of Twilight Negotiators

June 23, 2022

“Twilight diplomats” tend to make or break international negotiations, despite rarely garnering the acclaim of their more public-facing counterparts, write members of the Negotiation Task Force.

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George Shultz and Uncovering Underlying Interests

February 7, 2022

Understanding Russia’s needs and motivations, as Secretary Shultz advocated, can help us shift towards interest-based negotiations, write Danny Stoian and Nora Cyra.