Political Science

Focus on IR Faculty In the News

Mark Blyth, The William T. Rhodes '57 Professor of International Economics, and Carrie Nordlund, Political Science PhD alumnus, share a podcast, "Mark and Carrie" on global issues. Read the full article in News from Brown, From scholars at the Watson Institute and beyond, podcasts for the people. 

Peter Andreas, John Hay Professor of Political Science and International Studies, discusses  war and drugs in knowable magazaine: War and drugs: Together since forever, a Q&A with Peter Andreas. 

Rose McDermott's, David and Marianna Fisher University Professor of International Relations, Professor of Political Science, paper, "To Go Forward, We Must Look Back: The Importance of Evolutionary Psychology for Understanding Modern Politics," Evolutionary Psychology, April-June 2018,  is discussed in the NYT article, "The Trump Voters Whose 'Need for Chaos' Obliterates Everything Else".

Rose McDermott, David and Marianna Fisher University Professor of International Relations, Professor of Political Science, writes in the Washington Post, "Politicians and pundits used to refrain from publicly attacking kids. Not anymore." 

Mark Blyth, The William T. Rhodes '57 Professor of International Economics, is quoted about Brexit in a DW article, "Another brick in the wall? The downside of Britain's jobs boom." "Right across the world the share of income going to capital has never been higher in the modern era," Mark Blyth, a professor of economics at Brown University in the US, told DW. "So the critics have a rather obvious point. If most people are working longer hours for less money, which they are, then why should they be happy about it."

"It takes a monumental effort to look around at a world with Trump, the AfD, Brexit, and all the rest and declare that everyone is really quite happy with everything after all," Blyth says. 

Rose McDermott, David and Marianna Fisher University Professor of International Relations, Professor of Political Science, is interviewed on the Trending Globally podcast, The Psychology of Right Wing Populism.