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.

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.

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.

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.

Commentary by Juliet Hooker

Seminar Series on Democracy, Conflict, & Polarization: Can Americans Depolarize? Assessing the Effects of Reciprocal Group Reflection on Partisan Polarization

Announcing new professors in the Political Science Department

New Research Alert from Ross Cheit

Nord Stream 2 is just one example of Europe making itself vulnerable to Russia’s manipulation of energy markets.

‘Like it or not, the Government Needs Greater Power to Fight Pandemics’

Commentary from Ashutosh Varshney

Maid in America: Whiteness as Property

Commentary by Rich Arenberg

Commentary from Rich Arenberg

Commentary from Jim Morone

Juliet Hooker, Wendy Schiller, and Rose McDermott; The insurrectionists couldn’t overturn the election results, but they did make us question basic assumptions about the state of American democracy.

The ideological gulf between the parties has intensified distrust and enmity.

The ideological gulf between the parties has intensified

Commentary from Wendy Schiller

Joe Manchin torpedoed his party’s key bill for the same reason Italy protected the sparkling wine – the local growth model

As 2020 comes to an end, the Lively panel gives their thoughts on the year's top local story, top national story, biggest winners and losers, plus predictions for 2021. Jim Hummel is joined by Brown professor Wendy Schiller, URI professor Maureen Moakley, corporate communications consultant Dave Layman, and Ian Donnis of the Public's Radio.

New Research Alert from Reid Pauly, Erik Lin-Greenberg, and Jacquelyn G. Schneider

Prerna Singh talks to Veja.com

Wendy Schiller: "I expect her nomination, if it is cleared through committee and reported out without any incident, should be taken up by the Senate late this week, sometime next week."

Richard Arenberg speaks to Times Union

Writer Salman Rushdie on locating himself through his novels, Pakistan’s strategic importance to the Taliban and why the religious imagination is unappealing to him

Richard Arenberg: "The minority has a pretty strong tool with which they can negotiate the power-sharing agreement."

Narco-terrorists fight for control of the cocaine trade, narco-insurgents like the Taliban fund their wars with heroin – and entire narco states are built around the drug trade.

Wendy Schiller: "It doesn't make any sense to change the way a vacancy is filled for lieutenant governor unless you change the way lieutenant governors are elected. They ought to be elected hand in hand as a partner with the governor."

Congress can affirm what “except in cases of impeachment” means.

Richard Arenberg: Some areas that are likely sources of bipartisan agreement are further COVID-19 relief, an infrastructure package and possibly some climate reforms.

Wendy Schiller: "What and how much he has to do will depend in large part on exactly when Raimondo gets confirmed."

The William R. Rhodes Center is keen to bring its insights and programming to as wide an audience as possible. We have our own podcast series, The Rhodes Center Podcast, which is focused on interviews with our fellows and visitors.

Ashutosh Varshney writes: The politics of Hindu nationalists is threatening to create a Jim Crow India in BJP-ruled territories. What race was to the American South, ethnicised religion is to Hindu nationalists

How do we understand experiences of loss politically? And what role have accounts of loss played historically, from slavery through the Movement for Black Lives and the pandemic? Meeting Street host Amanda Anderson speaks with political scientist Juliet Hooker and historian Emily Owens about their teaching project across the humanities and social sciences. We discuss quantitative vs. qualitative frameworks; the significance of public feelings of grief, rage, and exhaustion; and the powerful role that both numbers and art can play in political movements.

From the warped housing market to the ‘knowledge economy’, the system increasingly works only for the uber-wealthy

Ashutosh Varshney writes: Democracy and human rights will continue to be key drivers, but economic tools and diplomacy will be the main methods for achieving these goals, not military power.

Last week’s recommendation by two California parole officials that the man who murdered Robert F. Kennedy should be released from prison was quirky, even by California standards.