The Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs

In The News

Bloomberg Daybreak: November 23, 2020 (interview with Wendy Schiller)

November 24, 2020 Bloomberg

COVID Transmission In N.H. Schools is Minimal. Should They Stay Open Amid The Surge? (commentary by Emily Oster)

November 24, 2020 NHPR

Economics professor pushes back on school closures to slow coronavirus pandemic (interview with Emily Oster)

November 24, 2020 Fox

News from Watson

Call It an Emergency: The Next President’s Guide to Addressing Climate Change

November 4, 2020

Watson Election 2020

September 2, 2020

Standing in Solidarity

June 3, 2020

Research Briefs

Dynamics of American Democracy: Partisan Polarization, Political Competition and Government Performance

November 16, 2020

Opportunities

The Watson Institute offers a variety of research and funding opportunities for faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and undergraduate and graduate students.

Events

December 3

Book Talk with Thea Riofrancos — Resource Radicals: From Petro-Nationalism to Post-Extractivism in Ecuador
12 p.m. – 1 p.m.

December 4

Gautam Nair — Business, Voters, and Distributive Politics in Developing Democracies
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.

December 7

Dynamics of American Democracy ─ Partisan Polarization, Political Competition and Government Performance
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.

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Student Experience

Student Spotlight: Emma Caviness ’19 MPA ’21

November 23, 2020

Webcasts

Understanding the 2020 Election

November 19, 2020

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New Brown Climate Solutions Lab Calls for Executive Action on Climate Change

New Mellon Foundation Grant will Focus on the Migrant Experience

Course Spotlight: Broadening the Study of War

Watson Welcomes New Cohort of Postdoctoral Fellows

Seminar Compares Erosion of Democratic Norms Around the World

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