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.
November 30, 2016 Foreign Policy
Jeff Colgan's resource list of political science literature focused on democratic erosion around the world is mentioned.
November 29, 2016 The New Yorker
Research by Jeff Colgan, professor of political science, was cited in an article about American democracy following the results of the presidential campaign.
November 29, 2016 The Guardian
Research by Mark Blyth, professor of political economy, was cited in an article about austerity.
November 29, 2016 Monkey Cage Blog
Jeff Colgan in Monkey Cage, "Trump has been vague and inconsistent about his proposed policies, but to the extent they have a coherent theme, it is one of economic nationalism."
November 28, 2016
Three Watson Institute scholars, Narges Bajoghli, Chas Freeman, and Stephen Kinzer, are signatories to a new report that was recently published on the Iran policy recommendations for the new U.S. administration.
November 28, 2016 Real Clear Politics
Mark Blyth in Real Clear Politics, ""If you look at the states that really fell hard [for Trump] in the Rust Belt, it is economic. Now, if you recognize that simple fact, you can put Trump in there with Brexit."
November 23, 2016 The Boston Globe
Stephen Kinzer, senior lecturer at Brown's Watson Institute, wrote an op-ed arguing that if Donald Trump is defying conventional wisdom by cooperating with Russia, he should offer a conciliatory hand to Iran as well.
November 23, 2016 RI Future
Michael Kennedy in RI Future, "Sociology, history and other disciplines have long been interested in the history and constitution of whiteness, but more typically as an expression of power, not as an invitation to empathy."
November 22, 2016 TED
Professor of International Relations, Rose McDermott, presents a TEDxSonomaCounty talk on the genetics of politics.
November 21, 2016 Scroll.in
A study by Andrea Wright, anthropology student and GPD Fellow, was mentioned in an article on the fears of sexual assault and salary cuts that women spa workers face in Goa, India.
November 21, 2016 The Washington Post
Peter Andreas in The Washington Post, "Critics were as dismissive of Trump’s wall as they were of Trump as a presidential candidate. The wall proposal, they said, was nothing more than a political fantasy."
November 18, 2016 The Christian Science Monitor
Timothy Edgar, senior fellow in international and public affairs, wrote an op-ed about internet surveillance in the United States entering a new era.
November 18, 2016 The New York Times
Elias Muhanna in The New York Times, "For us children, it was a geography lesson meant as preparation for the strange homecoming that always follows a great war."
November 16, 2016 Foreign Affairs
Mark Blyth in Foreign Affairs, "Could there then be a higher set of drivers in the global economy pushing the world in a direction where Trump is really just one part of a more global pattern of events?"
November 15, 2016 The Wire
Nirupama Rao in The Wire, "As the largest democracy in the world, proud of its demographic dividend of over one billion people, mostly young and aspirational, India has no international television channel that propagates its word in the world."
November 14, 2016 RI Future
Michael Kennedy in RI Future, "Like those who protest, I fear this election has destroyed the checks and balances that enable those who don’t share my privilege to feel any modicum of security in Trump’s America."
November 11, 2016 The Indian Express
Ashutosh Varshney in The Indian Express, "The minorities — Hispanics (12 per cent of the electorate), blacks (12 per cent) and Asians (5 per cent) — were expected to vote heavily for Clinton."