Wendy Schiller, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, Chair of Political Science, comments on Nancy Pelosi being re-appointed as Speaker of the House.

Bonnie Honig, Nancy Duke Lewis Professor of Modern Culture and Media and Political Science, writes in the Boston Review, a political and literary forum, about politics and climate change.

Rich Arenberg, Visiting Professor of the Practice of Political Science, Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs, writes about the filibuster in Newsmax.

Jeff Colgan, Richard Holbrooke Associate Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs, writes in The Washington Post's Monkay Cage about Qatar and what leaving OPEC means.

Scholars say their field is coming under increasing pressures from forces outside the academy who want to delegitimize it.

Nina Tannenwald, Director, International Relations Program, Senior Lecturer in Political Science, writes in Foreign Affairs on The Vanishing Nuclear Taboo? How Disarmament Fell Apart.

Wendy Schiller, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, Chair of Political Science, is a guest on Bloomberg Radio's Daybreak to discuss U.S. politics.

Selim Sazak, PhD candidate in Political Science, writes in ForeignPolicy about the liberal order.

Nina Tannenwald, Director, International Relations Program, Senior Lecturer in Political Science, writes for the American Academy of Arts & Sciences on the new nuclear age and changing nuclear doctrines. 

Ashu Varshney, Sol Goldman Professor of International Studies and Social Sciences, Director of the Center for Contemporary South Asia, Professor of Political Science, writes in The Indian Express about President Trump.

Multiple Political Science faculty discuss the impact of the November 2018 mid-term election.

Sanne Verschuren, Political Science Ph.D. candidate, was awarded a Global Mobility Research Fellowship for 2018-19. 

Rich Arenberg, Visiting Professor of the Practice of Political Science, Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs, writes in USA Today about the potential of a Democratic Senate.

Bonnie Honig, Nancy Duke Lewis Professor of Modern Culture and Media and Political Science, writes in the Los Angeles Review of Books on immigration.

Ross Cheit, Professor of Political Science, Director of Graduate Studies, awarded Elizabeth Hurlock Beckman Trust Award.

Mark Blyth, The William T. Rhodes '57 Professor of International Economics, speaks with Jim Green, Professor of History and Director of the Brazil Initiative at the Watson Institute, on the implications of the 2018 Brazilian Presidential Election.

Jeff Colgan, Richard Holbrooke Associate Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs, is interviewed about the lawsuit filed on Exxon Mobil on PRI's The World.

Rose McDermott, David and Marianna Fisher University Professor of International Relations, Professor of Political Science, was interviewed by the Watson Institute's Trending Globally podcast about domestic violence and her new book, The Evils of Polygyny, Cornell University Press, 2018.

They’ve done a 180 on protections for people with pre-existing conditions.

Brown University Political Science Faculty and Graduate Student Participation at #APSA18 - the American Political Science Meetings, Boston, 2018

The sudden attention on migrant caravans, which aren’t new, leaves out much context about the purpose of the caravans, the conditions driving Central Americans north and what will happen to them as they continue the journey. Here’s what we know.

Jeff Colgan, Richard Holbrooke Associate Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs, writes in The Washington Post about oil.

Rich Arenberg, Visiting Professor of the Practive of Political Science, Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs, recaps the Helsinki Summit.

Eric Patashnik, Julis-Rabinowitz Professor of Public Policy, Professor of Political Science, and co-author Alan Gerber write in Health Affairs.

Jeff Colgan, Richard Holbrooke Associate Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs, writes The Monkey Cage on climate change.

Susan Moffitt, Director of the A. Alfred Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy, Associate Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs, speaks on the Trending Globally podcast about education reform.

Congressional Procedure, explains the legislative and congressional budget processes along with all aspects of Congress.

Eric Patashnik, Julis-Rabinowitz Professor of Public Policy, Professor of Political Science, and co-author Alan Gerber (Yale), were awarded the National Academy of Public Administration's 2018 Louis Brownlow Book Award for their book, Unhealthy Politics: The Battle over Evidence-based Medicine.

Scores on the state’s standardized tests rose slightly overall in 2018, increasing in all grades but 11th, the only high school grade to take the test, where a big drop countered the big growth in early elementary grades. In English language arts, about half of students overall met or exceeded the standards — the equivalent of proficiency — while 39 percent met or exceeded standards in math.

Rich Arenberg, Visiting Professor of the Practice of Political Science, Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs, writes in The Hill about Judge Brett Kavanaugh's nomination hearings.

Bonnie Honig, Nancy Duke Lewis Professor of Modern Culture and Media and Political Science, writes in Blog//Los Angeles Review of Books on Christine Blasey Ford and Brett Kavanaugh.

Nina Tannenwald, Director, International Relations Program, Senior Lecturer in Political Science, writes in The Washington Quarterly, about the nuclear taboo and how it can be strengthened.

Ashu Varshney,Sol Goldman Professor of International Studies and Social Sciences, Director of the Center for Contemporary South Asia, Professor of Political Science, comments on India's Crusading Supreme Court in the The New York Times.

Ashu Varshney, Sol Goldman Professor of International Studies and Social Sciences, Director of the Center for Contemporary South Asia, Professor of Political Science, and colleague Patrick Heller, Professor of Sociology and International and Public Affairs, received a Ford Foundation grant for a project on Citizenship and Urban Governance in India.

Mark Blyth, The William T. Rhodes '57 Professor of International Economics, Director of the William T. Rhodes Center, hosts a podcast. He interviews Ilene Grabel on her latest book, When Things Don't Fall Apart published by MIT Press in January 2018.

Mark Blyth, The William T. Rhodes '57 Professor of International Economics, speaks on New York Public Radio about the potential causes of the 2008 financial crisis.

Rob Blair, Joukowsky Family Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, speaks on the Trending Globally Podcast about his new course on democratic erosion.

Ashu Varshney, Sol Goldman Professor of International Studies and Social Sciences, Director of the Center for Contemporary South Asia, Professor of Political Science, responds to The Print's question about Steve Bannon being invited to the New Yorker Literary Festival, "is engaging with those you abhor appeasement or liberalism?"

Rich Arenberg, Visiting Professor of the Practive of Political Science, Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs, writes in NewsMax about John McCain, the filibuster, and Supreme Court nominees.

Corey Brettschneider, Professor of Political Science, writes in Politico Magazine about how Trump's Supreme Court nominee threatens to undermine the Mueller probe.

Corey Brettschneider, Professor of Political Science, writes in The Washington Post about how to indict a sitting president.

"Watson and Brown’s political science department are incredibly vibrant and active research communities,” says political scientist and Watson Institute Master of Public Affairs Director Eric Patashnik. “Brown is distinctive given the degree to which scholars actively tackle important, real-world problems, display a deep commitment to their respective disciplines, and use knowledge to create a better world."

Mark Blyth, The William T. Rhodes '57 Professor of International Economics, discussed neoliberalism on the Pineal Express, a progressive and educational podcast.