Varshney Discusses His New Book on the NYT's "India Ink"
December 20, 2013
In an interview on the New York Times's India-focused blog, Varshney explores the country's democratic successes and challenges.
News Archive 2013
Video: Faculty Fellow Glenn Loury Debates Race, Santa Claus, and Identity
December 18, 2013
In his regular video blog, Loury counsels that blacks must strive to not let race dominate their lives, and recalls Amartya Sen's prescription about the non-inevitability of identity.
Visiting Scholar Tim Edgar Talks FISA on Public Radio's "The World"
December 17, 2013
Timothy Edgar explains the past and present of the FISA court in a radio interview with Marco Werman.
Tim Edgar Critiques New Yorker Article's Account of Surveillance Law
December 13, 2013
Writing for the blog Lawfare, Edgar says that the author of the article, which ran in the December 16 issue of the New Yorker, "oversimplifies, and therefore distorts, the legal issues in a way that fits his narrative."
Varshney's New Book Reviewed in the Hindu
December 13, 2013
Ashutosh Varshney’s new book, Battles Half Won: India's Improbable Democracy, sheds light on the nation’s political journey.
Senior Fellow Margaret Levi to Direct Stanford's Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences
December 12, 2013
Levi, a political scientist, will assume leadership of the Center in March 2014.
Video: Loury Reflects on Mandela's Death
December 12, 2013
Faculty Fellow Glenn Loury and University of Chicago colleague Harold Pollack discuss the death of Nelson Mandela and why they weren't more committed to anti-apartheid activism in the 1980s.
"Longshoremen and Wharfies": Margaret Levi and Co-Author on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) Radio
December 10, 2013
Senior Fellow Margaret Levi and co-author John Ahlquist discuss their new book, In the Interest of Others: Organizations and Social Activism, on ABC Radio Late Night Live.
Big Transparency and the NSA Event Featured on US Government Site
December 10, 2013
This month's Big Transparency and the NSA conference is featured on IC on the Record, the government's main surveillance transparency website. Established by order of President Obama, the site serves as a gateway for FISA court documents, compliance reports, and similar information.
Kinzer in the Guardian: Pakistan Should Heed Husain Haqqani's Urgent Message of Reform
December 10, 2013
Cutting military spending and focusing on domestic issues could keep Pakistan from becoming a "nuclear-armed Somalia."
Green testifies at São Paulo Truth Commission
December 6, 2013
James N. Green, professor of history and faculty fellow at the Institute, testified before the São Paulo Truth Commission on November 26, explaining how systematic torture of oppositionists by the Brazilian military regime created a climate of fear and paranoia.
The Economist Praises Blog Run by MES Faculty
December 5, 2013
"Qifa Nabki, run by Elias Muhanna, a professor at Brown University in America, is the leading blog on Lebanese politics."
Kennedy Hopes for Negotiated Revolution in Ukraine
December 5, 2013
In an opinion piece published in the Providence Journal, Michael Kennedy says President Yanukovych should resign.
Varshney in NYT: "There is a certain helplessness that comes from dealing with the malfunctioning state at the street level"
November 25, 2013
A New York Times article on the rise of the Aam Aadmi party in India quotes Professor Ashutosh Varshney.
Kinzer in Al Jazeera: "How the worst blot on JFK's presidency happened"
November 25, 2013
Was Allen Dulles' early dementia to blame for the Bay of Pigs?
Melani Cammett on the Syrian Conflict’s Impact on Lebanese Politics
November 22, 2013
Faculty Fellow Melani Cammett examines the impact of the Syrian conflict on Lebanon’s politics and political stability in a briefing paper for the United States Institute of Peace.
Audits Are Only First Step in Making Bangladeshi Factories Safe, Locke Tells WWD
November 21, 2013
Commenting in a Women's Wear Daily Article, Richard Locke says that safety audits alone will not result in sustainable reform.
The Chronicle Profiles Locke's Decision to Assume Directorship
November 21, 2013
The Chronicle of Higher Education explores Director Richard Locke's move to Brown and his transformation of the Institute, which University President Christina H. Paxson describes as "quite astounding."
Climate and Development Lab Students Engage at COP19 in Warsaw
November 20, 2013
A group of students led by Faculty Fellow J. Timmons Roberts is in Warsaw this week for the nineteenth meeting of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change's (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties (COP19 for short).