September 30, 2015 The Providence Journal
Wendy Schiller in The Providence Journal, "what Rhode Island has to do is learn from the mistakes of 38 Studios and not let it keep us from moving forward economically."
September 25, 2015 Follow The Money Radio
Stephen Kinzer discusses the Iran Nuclear Deal saying "it decisively advances American security interests in the Middle East...this deal more or less guarantees that Iran is never going to become a nuclear power so that profoundly alters all security calculations in the Middle East," on FTM Radio.
September 23, 2015 The Hill
Richard Arenberg on The Hill, "The real danger will arise in 2017 if either party controls the White House and the Senate majority."
September 22, 2015
On Tuesday, September 29, 2015, three of the nation’s top defense policy leaders will convene at Brown University for a forum, The US Military in a Dangerous World: How Much is Enough?
September 22, 2015 The Boston Globe
Stephen Kinzer, visiting fellow at the Watson Institute, explains the cause of American hostility toward Russia and the consequences of labeling them as an enemy.
September 21, 2015 Foreign Policy
Watson Institute Board Member Stephen Walt in Foreign Policy, writes "unlike neoconservatives, who never admit error no matter how often they are wrong, I spend a fair bit of time thinking about whether my diagnoses of key world events have been off the mark."
September 18, 2015
As part of the Choices Program's Teaching with the News lesson, "Refugee Stories: Mapping a Crisis", students will explore the human geography of the current refugee crisis, employ data to create a map of the crisis, examine one refugee’s story and use it to map his or her experiences, and consider challenges facing the international community and weigh responses to the crisis.
September 18, 2015 AA Energy News
Jeff Colgan comments in AA Engery News, "lifting the ban could mean greater convergence between the price of WTI and Brent, which normally track quite closely to each other, but in some recent years diverged significantly".
September 17, 2015 Brown Alumni Magazine
On Tuesday, September 15th, director and acclaimed documentary filmmaker Davis Guggenheim '86 screened his film He Named Me Malala at Brown University, hosted by the Watson Institute and the Swearer Center.
September 17, 2015 CNBC
Mark Blyth discusses the future of the eurozone on CNBC.
September 14, 2015
As part of the Choices Program's Teaching with the News initiative, students will understand the role of the U.S. in the debate about the Iran nuclear deal, identify the techniques political cartoonists use to express opinions, interpret cartoons about the Iran nuclear deal, and monitor and explain the implications of the congressional vote on the Iran nuclear deal.
September 14, 2015 The New York Times
Marc Dunkelman, fellow in public policy, comments on the challenges facing democracy, in an article on the topic.
September 11, 2015 USA Today
Stephen Kinzer in USA Today, "ISIL terrorists would love to drag us back into the Middle East. Their grotesquely theatrical crimes, recorded on video and transmitted to the world, are intended to provoke Americans into intervening."
September 9, 2015 The New York Times
Prof. Andrew Schrank comments on a group of workers at a car wash in New Mexico who are attempting to improve working conditions at their company.
September 9, 2015 The Atlantic
Marc Dunkelman, fellow in public policy, writes about the loss of faith in government that Americans experience when they lose trust in each other.
September 8, 2015 Boston Globe
Stephen Kinzer writes about how the resignation of Guatemala's President Otto Perez Molina on Thursday, followed by his arrest on corruption charge, signals that the country's political and social consciousness is rising dramatically.
September 3, 2015 Duck of Minerva Blog
A new study led by Jeff Colgan, professor of political science and international studies, found that women are more likely than men to include works by women on a syllabus.
September 1, 2015 The Hill
Richard Arenberg on The Hill, "Perhaps the most significant filibuster fight could come on the resolution of disapproval on the Iran deal."
August 31, 2015 Boston Globe
Stephen Kinzer in the Boston Globe, "The history of Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras is defined by repeated US intervention; all three countries have fallen into the abyss of instability, and thousands of their citizens are now fleeing toward the United States. These facts are not unrelated."