2019 In the News

Professor Wendy Schiller comments on Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo and the state's politics, saying "Raimondo has to worry about protecting Rhode Island's economic resurgence, and that will prove challenging with an ever-increasing state budget and municipal pension problems at the local level..."

Senior Fellow Stephen Kinzer in The Boston Globe, "Sometimes weakening unfriendly countries is in the national interest. In today's Middle East it is not."

Political scientist Wendy Schiller in The Boston Globe, "Getting back to the basics of governing is the road best traveled in a democracy, and New Englanders can once again pave the way while also regaining our lost influence."

Professor Michael Kennedy joined WPRI's Dan Yorke State of Mind to discuss the government shutdown.

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Professor Peter Andreas offered his thoughts on President Trump's promise to build a wall along the United States-Mexico border, saying "The whole border in a sense has become more militarized and more difficult to cross by any measure."

U.S. Representative David Cicilline will teach a Master of Public Affairs class this semester called "Public Policy and Politics in Partisan Times."

In an address to The Institute of International European Affairs, Associate Professor Jeff Colgan "argues that the liberal order, though successful in many ways, has become self-defeating – in part by contributing to a deepening economic inequality and the politics of outrage that follow from it."

Senior Fellow Stephen Kinzer in Politico, "Now a group of exiled Turkish writers, journalists and political reformers has launched a campaign to win the Nobel Peace Prize for their country's most prominent cultural activist."

"But another reason why Loury extols the virtue of a benign kind of nationalism can be discerned in a question he frequently asks himself: What are his duties as an African American intellectual?"

Amid the longest government shutdown in US history, who are President Trump's most trusted advisers? Political scientist Wendy Schiller says "Stephen Miller has become the singular voice on immigration in the White House. It does appear he has achieved the role he was blocked from by Steve Bannon, John Kelly and to an extent Jim Mattis. Now there is no one to block him."

Stephanie Savell, co-director of the Costs of War Project, appeared on BBC to discuss their recent map that shows the U.S. combatting terrorism in 40% of the world's nations.

Senior Fellow Stephen Kinzer in The Boston Globe, "Pedro Joaquín Chamorro was the most outspoken dissident in Nicaraguan history. He relentlessly attacked the Somoza family regime, which ruled the country for four decades beginning in the 1930s. The regime returned his animosity."

Fellow Marc Dunkelman offered commentary on the changing landscape of social interaction in the U.S. "Naturally, the desire to find people who fit our niche will expand to include people who have a different viewpoint, a different experience."

Mark Blyth, director of the Rhodes Center for International Economics and Finance, spoke with the Financial Times about the politicking of central banking, the hurdles to finding a U.S.-China trade war resolution, and how China can manage the financial risks building in its economy.

Associate Professor of Economics John Friedman, sat down with WPRI's Ted Nesi to discuss the interactive mapping tool he co-created called the Opportunity Atlas.

Professors Peter Andreas and Mark Blyth are mentioned in an article published by the Cambridge University Press that "identifies the 100 currently most-cited scholars, the 25 most-cited in each PhD cohort and subfield, the 40 most cited-women scholars, and the 25 most-cited emeriti."

Senior Fellow Timothy Edgar joins Dan Yorke on WPRI's State of Mind to discuss the impacts of the government shutdown and the border wall.

Political scientist Wendy Schiller joined Minnesota Public Radio to discuss what the Democrats will do now that they have control of the House.

A new infographic released by the Costs of War Project reveals that the United States is now combatting terrorism in 40% of the world's nations.

Senior Fellow Brian Atwood is among the authors of a letter to the OECD/DAC on efforts to give countries Official Development Assistance (ODA) credit for private development expenditures.

Recent research by the Costs of War Project is cited in an opinion article in the New York Times. "The total cost of the war could reach as high as $2 trillion when long-term costs are factored in, according to Brown University's Cost of War Project."