June 21, 2015 The Boston Globe
Journalist in Residence Stephen Kinzer in the Boston Globe: "While Americans argue about how to deal with our national challenges, other countries are surging forward."
June 18, 2015 The Providence Journal
June 17, 2015 Foreign Affairs
Director of the Brown Public Policy Program James Morone in Foreign Affairs, "Today, there is hardly an aspect of American political life untouched by religion. God seems to be everywhere. The nation’s official motto is 'In God We Trust.' The phrase is printed on the nation’s money, affixed behind the Speaker’s dais in the House of Representatives, and engraved over the entrance to the Senate."
June 17, 2015 The New York Times
Journalist in Residence Stephen Kinzer writes an obituary for Suleyman Demirel, seven-time Turkish prime minister who died early Wednesday at the age of 90.
June 17, 2015 City & State
Study by Walter and Leonore Annenberg Professor for Education Policy Kenneth Wong on mayoral control cited in City & State.
June 16, 2015 The New York Times
John Friedman talks to the New York Times citing his study for the Brookings Institution’s Hamilton Project on what workers and employers should be doing to save more for retirement.
June 15, 2015 RI NPR
Last week, a temporary shelter modeled on shelters used by the victims of the recent earthquake in Nepal went up on the lawn outside of the Watson Institute at Brown University. Teaching fellow Atul Pokharel, who lead the construction of the shelter, talks about what he hopes it will achieve.
June 12, 2015 Next City
On Next City, Emily Oster is cited, "A paper by Brown University economist Emily Oster quantified the impact of soap operas on Indian homes and found a range of impacts on health and gender equality."
June 10, 2015 The Boston Globe
Stephen Kinzer writes about the recent Turkish elections, in which President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's party, Justice and Development, took just 41 percent in the parliamentary election. Kinzer writes that "Voters punished him for his excesses."
June 8, 2015 Global Post
Students who took part in an international relations class taught by Stephen Kinzer have their articles published in the Global Post. These articles are part of a series of stories written by students that will be posted on the site.
June 5, 2015 The Boston Globe
Stephen Kinzer, journalist in residence, in the Boston Globe: "If Kurdish and Iranian forces can bring the battle to ISIS in ways that do not further inflame sectarian tensions, it is in our interest to encourage them. First, though, we must decide whether crushing ISIS is really our priority."
June 4, 2015 Albawaba Business
Jeff Colgan, assistant professor of politics and international relations, comments on OPEC, which holds its biannual meeting in Vienna on Friday. "OPEC does not function as a cartel," he said. "Its members continue to have quite different interests and are unlikely to cooperate in any meaningful way to cut their collective oil production."
June 3, 2015 Al Jazeera
Journalist in Residence Stephen Kinzer in Al Jazeera, "Iranians are thrilled that their government has reached a preliminary agreement with outside powers and are eager for a final accord, which all parties say they want to conclude by June 30. The possibility that Iran could emerge from its pariah status and begin rebuilding its ties to the outside world has electrified the country."
June 3, 2015 Yahoo News
The Watson Institute's Costs of War Project cited in Yahoo News, "Another 162,000 have been wounded since the US-led offensive that toppled the Taliban government in Afghanistan after the 9/11 attacks, says the study by the Costs of War Project, based at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University."
June 3, 2015 RI NPR
Wendy Schiller comments on how former Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chafee's presidential campaign, which he plans to announce today, could help democrats: "Certainly, I think to counter some of the negatives of Hillary Clinton you’re going to need people like Linc Chafee, like Bernie Sanders, out there, getting the Democratic Party base out the door."
June 1, 2015 Al Jazeera
Journalist in Residence Stephen Kinzer in Al Jazeera, "Turks have spent countless hours wondering what produced Erdogan’s astonishing transformation from a reformist leader to an angry, divisive politician blinded by unlimited personal ambition."
May 27, 2015 The Boston Globe
Journalist in Residence Stephen Kinzer in the Boston Globe, "In many countries, a head of state would not even acknowledge a few unflattering sentences published ın a newspaper thousands of miles away, or might shrug them off with no more concern than an elephant shows for a mosquito. Erdogan, however, takes an intense interest in what the press writes about him. Many of the country’s independent journalists have been forced from their jobs. Those who remain are expected to toe his party line."
May 26, 2015 MSNBC Morning Joe
Watson Faculty Fellow David Kertzer participated in the Friday morning broadcast of MSNBC's Morning Joe.
May 26, 2015
Visiting Fellow in International Studies Tim Edgar discusses the expiration of the NSA's bulk phone record collection program provision within the Patriot Act.