Professor of Political Science Wendy Schiller offered commentary on how efforts to promote candidates who amplify conspiracy theories about election results damage democracy.

Assistant Professor of Political Science Paul Testa discussed a study he leads on the importance of cis men to hear about abortion rights from other men, which could influence how they view the issues and potentially whether or not they take action.

Yascha Mounk and Corey Brettschneider discuss how the state can disavow hate speech without infringing on freedom of expression.

In exploring the fiscal state of the union this week, it's clear that jobs, gas, GDP, and politics are all data points. But it seems like the math is...inconclusive. Things might get better, they might get worse. We're just not sure — no one is.

Brooke sits down with Mark Blyth, political economist and professor of International Economics and Public Affairs at Brown University, to discuss what our economy says about us — and why, like so many of humanity’s creations, it ultimately reveals our accomplishments, advances, fears, and of course, mistakes.

Professor Orr is the 2022 WINNER of the BIO’s Frances Frank Rollin Fellowship for his proposed biography of former U.S. Congressman Charles Diggs Jr.

The Rollin Fellowship aims to remediate the disproportionate scarcity and even suppression of Black lives and voices in the broad catalog of published biography. This fellowship reflects not only BIO’s commitment to supporting working biographers but to encouraging diversity in the field.

Donghyun Danny Choi WINS the Rebecca Morton Best JEPS Article Award, Experimental Research Section, APSA 2022

Partial Hegemony: Oil Politics and International Order

Winner, Jervis-Schroeder Best Book Award, APSA International History and Politics Section
Co-Winner, Best Book Award, APSA International Collaboration Section
Winner, Best Book Award (Energy Policy—Non-Fiction), American Energy Society

Donghyun Danny Choi WINS the Luebbert Award for Best Article in Comparative Politics, Comparative Politics Section, APSA 2022

Wilson Professor of International and Public Affairs and Political Science, Margaret Weir, is the 2022 winner of the Wilson Professor of International and Public Affairs and Political Science. This award is given by the Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations section of the American Political Science Association recognizing Margaret's distinguished scholarly contributions to the study of federalism and intergovernmental relations.

Sanne has been awarded the 2022 Kenneth Waltz Outstanding Dissertation Award from the International Security Section of the American Political Science Association.

The committee received a record number of submissions this year and her dissertation, 'Imagining the Unimaginable: War, Weapons, and Procurement Politics', was selected by the committee as being most worthy of this award.

After the US Supreme Court ruling, where does this leave women in the US? Political theorist Alex Gourevitch joins us to discuss Roe v Wade, and how the fact it rooted abortion in a right to privacy was problematic.

How can we ground the right to abortion in an argument for freedom in general? And is the US really faced with a rising tide of reaction, as liberals claim? Are same-sex marriage and contraception imperilled by the decision.

Ashutosh Varshney discussed India's Prime Minister's Hindu nationalist BJP party's victory on Maharashtra, India's richest state.

As inflation and interest rates continue to rise, is it possible to predict a global recession at this stage?

Professor of Political Science Wendy Schiller offered commentary on the challenges that newly elected House members face on the job, including working on policies that aren't their specialty.

China has publicly appeared more emboldened than ever about its ambitions to retake control of Taiwan. Privately, however, its confidence has faltered as Beijing studies Moscow’s failures in Ukraine.

Economic partners no longer turning blind eye to Modi government's divisive record

This war is unlikely to go nuclear. But it is increasing the risk that future conflicts will.

McDermott wrote by email that her conclusion “does not mean that 60 percent of ideology comes from genetic factors but rather that around 60 percent of differences between people can be attributed to genetic factors.”

Watson Institute director and Dean's Professor of China Studies Edward Steinfeld talks about China and the U.S. with Watson Senior Fellow Ambassador Chas Freeman and Tyler Jost, Assistant Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs.

People do change their minds, even on issues like abortion, where attitudes have hardened.

But the reality is that the Fed is the world’s de facto central bank, says Mark Blyth, a professor of international economics at Brown University. He reckons that if the Fed overshoots in raising rates it could trigger “the mother of all capital flights” from riskier financial assets into U.S. bonds and other securities. And that destabilizing scenario could stay the hands of Fed policymakers who might otherwise want to tighten more aggressively.

Attempt to reclaim mosque for Hindu religious purposes flatly contradicts the Constitution.

Mark says, “Given the fact that we can’t probably estimate with any degree of precision what would actually happen, why not bet on the good side? It is equiprobable."

Abortion rights activists in recent days have gathered outside the homes of three conservative Supreme Court justices to protest Roe v. Wade’s potential demise, taking their advocacy in an intensely personal and politically divisive direction.

While explaining why there is a sudden upsurge in anti-Muslim violence seen in India, Varshney said, “I have studied communal riots since the 1990s, but the current violence against Muslims in India is very different and India may be entering the stage of the anti-Muslim pogrom.”

Incidents of anti-Muslim violence are being reported from different parts of the country. What explains this sudden upsurge?

Jeff Colgan talks on how Russia’s invasion of Ukraine altered the global fossil fuel market.

Some say his bets on extreme candidates are risky, as losses could threaten his role as king and kingmaker in the Republican party.

w/Kaitlin Sidorsky '15 This work explores the ways that federalism exacerbates gender inequality among women by explaining the adoption of domestic violence laws across different states in the context of policy diffusion.

Nina Tannenwald, senior lecturer in political science, offers commentary on the concerns of Russia using tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine.

Research has shown that constituents do not evaluate legislators more favorably for claiming credit for delivering large grants than for delivering tiny ones.

They might help but they probably won’t be enough.

How can governments prevent rebel groups from seizing control of local communities during transitions to national peace? In a new article in American Political Science Review, Associate Professor Robert Blair and PhD student Manuel Moscoso work with two collaborators to evaluate a UN-sponsored program designed to prevent rebel resurgence by improving the quality of security and justice provision at the local level in Colombia. They show that the program reduced the prevalence of violent intra-communal disputes, increased citizens’ trust in the state, and diminished their trust in, and reliance on, armed groups.

NPR's A Martinez talks to Jeffrey Colgan, director of Brown University's Climate Solutions Lab, about how the United States plans to help Europe diminish its reliance on Russian natural gas.

Senior Lecturer in Political Science Nina Tannenwald offered commentary on nuclear warfare and limited tactical weapons.

Global instability gives India and China all the more reason to ratchet down tensions along their disputed border, said Associate Professor of Political Science Prerna Singh.

Panelists examine congressional voting legislation, state-level restrictions

My research looks at how Black legislators changed the Democratic Party — and how becoming party insiders changedthem

Vladimir Putin would not detonate a nuclear weapon if he were winning his war in Ukraine. Using nuclear weapons is a loser’s move. It is an act of desperation.

Melvin Roger's wide-ranging interests fall primarily within contemporary democratic theory and the history of American and African-American political and ethical philosophy, which is reflected in the courses he teaches, including history of political thought, American and African American political thought and contemporary political theory.

Senior Lecturer in Political Science Nina Tannenwald offered commentary on "limited" tactical nuclear weapons, arguing that Putin is using nuclear deterrence in the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Jeff Colgan discuss his new book, ‘Partial Hegemony: Oil Politics and International Order’.

Commentary from Jeff Colgan

New Research Alert from Jeff Colgan and Miriam Hinthorn

Though minority rights are enshrined in India’s Constitution, election victories can now be used to create laws, or government policies that begin to attack precisely those rights.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine shows the limits of nuclear deterrence

Commentary from Jeff Colgan

Commentary from Jeff Colgan

Ashutosh Varshney writes: What we are witnessing today is a full-blown national rebellion against a mighty neighbour bent upon bullying and subjugating

Putin’s personalist rule leaves few domestic checks on his power.