{"id":6334,"date":"2016-12-28T17:17:55","date_gmt":"2016-12-28T22:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/12\/28\/the-iron-man-of-europe\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T20:41:55","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T01:41:55","slug":"the-iron-man-of-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/the-iron-man-of-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"The Iron Man of Europe?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To some, Furman graduate Alexander Stubb is the Iron Man who could save Europe, a former Finnish prime minister and part of the next generation of leaders needed on a Continent battered by anti-establishment populism. In a recent interview with <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/alexander-stubb-europes-endangered-liberal-future-populism-finnish-party\/?utm_content=buffera17d8&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer\">Politico<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, Stubb discussed issues like populism and protectionism, liberal democracy, Brexit and the future of Europe. The article noted that \u201cStubb not only speaks fluent English but, thanks to four years at Furman University in South Carolina on a golf scholarship, he can also execute a perfect Dixie drawl. \u2018Finnish by birth, Southern by the Grace of God,\u2019 he says by way of introduction.\u201d Stubb graduated from Furman in 1993 with a degree in political science and earned a Ph.D. in international politics from the London School of Economics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To some, Furman graduate Alexander Stubb is the Iron Man who could save Europe, a former Finnish prime minister and part of the next generation of leaders needed on a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":6335,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3,6,35,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-alumni","category-in-the-news","category-parent-news","category-politics-and-international-affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}