December 31, 2016 Infobae
"After a year in which too many things seemed impossible, the EU faces another problem: a government that defies the elementary principles of republican democracy." Spanish text.
December 24, 2016 Policy Trajectories Blog
Michael Kennedy in the American Sociological Association's Policy Trajectories Blog, " I would propose that we think of knowledge not only as a quest to understand structures relatively autonomous from our own understanding, or subjective realities that are the consequences of various life experiences, but focus on those mediating knowledgeabilities that shape how we engage the world with more and less consequence for that world’s improvement."
December 23, 2016 The Boston Globe
Stephen Kinzer, senior fellow at the Watson Institute, wrote an op-ed about the fall of democracy around the world, examines its origins and factors that led to the global revolt.
December 21, 2016 The Indian Express
Ashutosh Varshney criticised the Union government for Monday’s proclamation to not permit more than a one-time deposit of over Rs 5,000 up to December 31.
December 20, 2016 WPRO State of Mind
Faculty Fellow Adam Levine joined WPRO's Dan Yorke State of Mind to discuss his work in addressing humanitarian crises.
December 19, 2016 NBC 10
Brown University political scientist Wendy Schiller is quoted in an article about Monday's elector vote.
December 16, 2016 News from Brown
Rob Blair, Assistant Professor of Political Science, discusses his new study on the distrust Liberian citizens felt toward their government institutions during government-mandated Ebola control interventions in 2014-15.
December 15, 2016 The Washington Post
Mark Blyth in The Washington Post, "Unsurprisingly, people are beginning to realize that they are no longer getting what they vote for."
December 14, 2016 Herald Scotland
Brown political scientist Jeff Colgan comments on the 'chilling effect' that has been spurred by Donald Trump's rhetoric about dialing back the First Amendment.
December 13, 2016 Monkey Cage Blog
Jeff Colgan in Monkey Cage Blog, "By all accounts, Tillerson is smart, hard-working, and has a lot of experience overseas with ExxonMobil. Still, he has zero experience in public office. So does Trump."
December 12, 2016 The Verge
Nina Tannenwald, director of international relations at Brown University, is quoted on the reasons why former U.S. commander in chiefs have avoided the use of nuclear arsenals.
December 12, 2016 Reuters
Senior Fellow Chas Freeman speaks with Retuers diplomatic correspondent Arshad Mohammed about his time as President Nixon's interpreter on the 1972 visit to China.
December 12, 2016 The Washington Post
Eric Patashnik in The Washington Post, "Just as liberals in power often discover that it is difficult to expand the scope of government, conservatives in power have traditionally found that the task of dismantling existing programs can be daunting even under favorable circumstances."
December 12, 2016 The Washington Post
Brown University economist Nathaniel Hilger comments on a study about young adults not reaching the same level of success as their parents. Hilger's comments are based on the new findings and his own research.
December 9, 2016 Providence Business News
Timothy Edgar, senior fellow at Brown's Watson Institute, said small businesses are susceptible to cyber threats and that many attacks go undetected in a discussion that examined cyber security across industries. Edgar was part of the panel convened for PBN's Cybersecurity Summit at the Crowne Plaza.
December 7, 2016 The Boston Globe
Stephen Kinzer in The Boston Globe, ""According to American strategic doctrine, the US will be in danger if one country comes to dominate a large region of the world. China seems capable of doing that one day."
December 2, 2016 Foreign Affairs
Senior Fellow J Brian Atwood co-authors an op-ed about U.S. foreign policies having unintended consequences that directly impact U.S. interests.
December 1, 2016 USA Today
Research professor Nick Ziegler, comments on the possible elimination of the Dodd-Frank Act now that former Goldman Sachs banker Steven Mnuchin has been named Trump's Treasury Secretary.
December 1, 2016 The Takeaway, NPR
Mark Blyth joins WNYC to discuss global far-right growth and where nationalist parties could gain appeal.
November 30, 2016 The Christian Science Monitor
Timothy Edgar, senior fellow at Brown's Watson Institute, comments on the likelihood of American legislators adopting similar surveillance policies as the British Parliament, which has recently passed a controversial law that allows government officials to monitor the web surfing behaviors of Britons for suspected terrorists and cyber criminals.