{"485801":{"#nid":"485801","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Undergraduate Trey Smith\u0027s work recently published in Forbes \u0026 Fifth","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA second year student in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, Murry (Trey) Smith published his essay \u201cLear\u2019s Tyranny in Qaddafi\u2019s Libya\u201d in \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/forbes5.pitt.edu\/ojs\/index.php\/forbes5\/index\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EForbes \u0026amp; Fifth\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, a national journal for undergraduate research.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESmith approaches William Shakespeare\u2019s political tragedy King Lear from the applied, interdisciplinary direction of contemporary political collapse. Autocrats like Syria\u2019s Hafez al-Assad, Zimbabwe\u2019s Robert Mugabe, North Korea\u2019s Kim Jong-Il, and particularly Libya\u2019s Muammar Qaddafi not only parallel King Lear, their erratic leadership devolves into power vacuums and civil war. By connecting King Lear\u2019s complex exploration of tyranny, decadence, failed foreign intervention, and mental illness to modern autocrats, Smith sharpens both a 400-year old play and the 2011 Libyan Revolution.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETrey is a Dean\u2019s List \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.ramblinwreck.com\/sports\/m-footbl\/mtt\/trey_smith_918232.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eoffensive lineman\u003C\/a\u003E on the Georgia Tech football team who is particularly interested in the effect of hard power on international relations at both intrastate and interstate levels. Trey wrote the article as part of his study of the \u201cViolence of the Law\u201d (LMC\u2019s \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/wcprogram.lmc.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EWriting and Communication Program\u003C\/a\u003E) with \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/higinbotham.lmc.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EDr. Sarah Higinbotham\u003C\/a\u003E in 2014.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Smith looks at contemporary autocrats through a Shakespearean lens."}],"uid":"28518","created_gmt":"2016-01-13 18:18:58","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:20:24","author":"Jessica Anderson","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-01-13T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2016-01-13T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"485781":{"id":"485781","type":"image","title":"Trey Smith","body":null,"created":"1452902401","gmt_created":"2016-01-16 00:00:01","changed":"1475895239","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:53:59","alt":"Trey Smith","file":{"fid":"204311","name":"877dfb02-83fa-426a-9f73-bde49e92295b.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/877dfb02-83fa-426a-9f73-bde49e92295b_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/877dfb02-83fa-426a-9f73-bde49e92295b_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":6975,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/877dfb02-83fa-426a-9f73-bde49e92295b_0.jpg?itok=uYjkSm3F"}},"485791":{"id":"485791","type":"image","title":"Forbes \u0026 Fifth","body":null,"created":"1452902401","gmt_created":"2016-01-16 00:00:01","changed":"1475895239","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:53:59","alt":"Forbes \u0026 Fifth","file":{"fid":"204312","name":"3c2ec030-b295-4e7d-b0b7-1d5b9748464f.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/3c2ec030-b295-4e7d-b0b7-1d5b9748464f_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/3c2ec030-b295-4e7d-b0b7-1d5b9748464f_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":23558,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/3c2ec030-b295-4e7d-b0b7-1d5b9748464f_0.jpg?itok=i9pnCyRv"}}},"media_ids":["485781","485791"],"groups":[{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}