January 30, 2015
A professor, two alumni and a current student from Brown’s public policy program will begin work in key state and local administrative positions in the post-election staff shuffle.
January 30, 2015 Foreign Affairs
Mark Blyth, professor of international political economy, co-authors a piece comparing the pros and cons of austerity versus democracy to get Greece out of its economic slump.
January 29, 2015 The Choices Program
As part of "The Struggle to Define Free Speech: From Skokie to Paris", students will consider how different societies define freedom of expression, analyze historical sources that reveal contrasting views on freedom of expression in the case of Skokie, Illinois, where a Nazi group attempted to demonstrate in the 1970s, and explore the current free speech controversy in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attacks.
January 28, 2015 Providence Journal
Wendy Schiller comments on Governor Gina Raimondo's handling of her first major snow storm: “My initial impression is that Governor Raimondo took early and forceful steps to ensure public safety and coordinate emergency and public works personnel."
January 28, 2015 Sputnick Radio
Jeff Colgan, Richard Holbrooke Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Studies, talks to Sputnik Radio about where oil prices is headed.
January 27, 2015 The Indian Express
Ashutosh Varshney, Sol Goldman Professor of International Studies and the Social Sciences and director of the Brown-India Initiative, writes about the new role Obama sees for India as part of his global vision.
January 26, 2015 BBC World Service
Ashutosh Varshney, Sol Goldman Professor of International Studies and the Social Sciences and director of the Brown-India Initiative, on BBC World Service: "The United States clearly sees india now as a prominent partner in it's global vision."
January 26, 2015 Reno Gazette Journal
Kenneth Wong, chair of education, comments on Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval's pitch to appoint local school board members. "This is a very significant development," said Wong, referencing the national implication of Nevada's consideration and also noting that "rarely are governors involved."
January 23, 2015 Al Jazeera
Stephen Kinzer, journalist in residence, says in Al Jazeera: "Journalism becomes more important when institutions weaken. It also becomes more dangerous. This is true not only in Iran, China, Turkey, Mexico, Saudi Arabia and Nicaragua but also in the United States."
January 23, 2015 Daily Signal
Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy and Political Science Richard Arenberg writes about the Senate's history of protecting the rights of the minority through filibuster and how the use of the “nuclear option,” in particular, has started the Senate down a dark path.
January 22, 2015 Education Post
Richard Locke and Edward Steinfeld talk to Hong Kong's leading English language newspaper, Education Post, about Brown University's approach to interdisciplinary approach.
January 22, 2015 Today Show
Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs and former Watson Institute guest speaker, Roberta Jacobson '82, leads talks in Cuba alongside Brown University students.
January 21, 2015 Wired Magazine
Visiting Fellow in International Studies Timothy Edgar in Wired: "A fundamental failure to take responsibility for insecure systems and buggy code is at the heart of our cybersecurity woes."
January 21, 2015
Jeff Colgan, assistant professor of political science and international studies, comments on the recent plummet of oil prices in an article on how the oil market got to this point. “We probably won’t see $100 a barrel for a while,” said Colgan. “Fracking does put a bit of a ceiling on the price.”
January 20, 2015
Wendy Schiller comments on how Senator Jack Reed will continue to be influential in Congress despite now being in the minority party: “Even in an age of high polarization, I think someone like Jack Reed manages to cross party lines in his relationships.”
January 18, 2015
Journalist in Residence Stephen Kinzer in the Boston Globe: "Wars in the Middle East, and their recent spillover in Sydney, Ottawa, and Paris, are the legacy of reckless colonial blunders."
January 16, 2015
In Brown Alumni Magazine, Journalist in Residence Stephen Kinzer says: "Risen insists that the public has a right to information that government wants to keep secret."
January 14, 2015 Ami Magazine
Richard Holbrooke Assistant Professor of Political Science Jeff Colgan in Ami Magazine: “When oil prices are rising, there is also a rise in nationalism. Oil-producing countries are more assertive." Ami Magazine
January 13, 2015
As part of the Choices Program's Teaching with the News initiative, students will gather information about Nigeria and the Boko Haram insurgency, identify core challenges faced by the government and people of Nigeria, and form “expert” groups and create policy recommendations.
January 12, 2015
Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Policy Wendy Schiller talks to NBC 10's Bill Rappleye about politics in 2014 and her new book, "Electing the Senate".