When scaring the regime runs in the family (written by Stephen Kinzer)
January 14, 2019 The Boston Globe
In the News
Watson Expansion
Stephen Robert '62 Hall Opens
Year in Review
Top 10 News from Watson Stories of 2018
Policy in Perspective
Credible Fear: Tales from a Texas Detention Center
In The News
Two Watson Faculty Make The Political Science 400 List
January 11, 2019 Cambridge University Press
Executive Suite: Shawmut; Opportunity Atlas (interview with John Friedman)
January 11, 2019 WPRI
News from Watson
Election Results Worldwide
November 9, 2018
BIARI Beyond Brown: Improving Disaster Response Where Disasters Happen
October 18, 2018
Brazil Elections: Who's in Play and What’s at Stake
September 24, 2018
Research Briefs
The Political Geography and Inequality in America
January 14, 2019
Opportunities
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Events
January 25
Sarah Osten ‘00 and Kate Goldman – Working with Asylum Seekers in Dilley, Texas
12 p.m. – 2 p.m.
January 29
Critical Conversations: Experiences of Incarceration in the United States & Syria
5 p.m. – 6:45 p.m.
February 1
Opioids and Public Health: History, Problem-Solving, and Research Challenges
3:30 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Student Experience
Student Spotlight: Alexia Melendez Martineau ’18
January 16, 2019
Webcasts
Adam Reich ─ Working for Respect: Community and Conflict at Walmart
December 6, 2018
Safeguarding Our Children
December 5, 2018
Fábio de Sá e Silva ─ A New Republic of Lawyers? Legal Careers, State Power, and Political Change in Contemporary Brazil
December 5, 2018
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