More than four million people in India, mostly Muslims, are at risk of being declared foreign migrants as the government pushes a hard-line Hindu nationalist agenda that has challenged the country’s pluralist traditions and aims to redefine what it means to be Indian.

Half of the 10 members of Congress seeking the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination have already hit career highs in bill-drafting productivity this year, and it’s only August.

Alcohol-drenched medieval battlefields. Opium-laced imperialism. Modern-day narco-terrorism. There’s a lot of history between armed conflict and psychoactive substances.

Bonnie Honig, Nancy Duke Lewis Professor of Modern Culture and Media and Political Science, writes in Politics Letters on Robert Mueller's testimony.

Prerna Singh, Mahatma Gandhi Associate Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs, is interviewed on The Arthur Brooks Show podcast on what distinguishes patriotism from nationalism and appropriately expressing love for our country.

Jeff Colgan, Richard Holbrooke Associate Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs, published an article in The Washington Quarterly, Summer 2019 edition, his theory of three visions of international order.

Melting ice will expose waste that has been locked in for decades.

Andrew Schrank, Professor of Sociology, and International and Public Affairs, and Prerna Singh, Associate Professor of Political Science, and International and Public Affairs, are among 64 new fellows named by CIFAR, a Canadian-based global charitable organization that convenes extraordinary interdisciplinary researchers from around the world to address science and humanity’s most important questions.

eff Colgan’s new article Three Visions of International Order was published by The Washington Quarterly, a journal hosted by George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs, in their Summer 2019 edition.

“If Congress asked him to testify, I believe he would appear voluntarily,” Rep. André Carson told VICE News

Political elites need to feel that these are our children dying, that this is a crisis for us, a tragedy for our community, we must take immediate action to save the lives of our people.

In her book, All Roads Lead to Power, professor Kaitlin Sidorsky analyzes how many more women are appointed, rather than elected, to political office. These women make a conscious decision to enter politics through a less partisan and negative entry point, and that the work connects with their personal lives or career. They are not always victims of a biased political sphere or lacking in ambition or self-confidence. A book signing follows the program.

Wendy Schiller, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, Chair of Political Science, comments in the Guardian on President Trump.

Listen to Rich Arenberg, Visiting Professor of the Practice of Political Science, Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs, discuss lessons from Iran-Contra situation on skullduggery.

Ashu Varshney, Sol Goldman Professor of International Studies and Social Sciences, Director of the Center for Contemporary South Asia, Professor of Political Science, discusses election outcomes in India in the Indian Express.

2019-2020 Speaker Series on International Security in South Asia

Eric Patashnik authored a chapter, "The Clean Air Act's Use of Market Mechanisms," which was published in Lessons from the Clean Air Act (co-edited by Ann Carlson and Dallas Burtraw, Cambridge University Press, 2019).

At an engineering college in the middle of India, three first-time voters stretched out on classroom benches and debated whether to re-elect Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island raised a large amount of money for his re-election campaign last year. Whitehouse said the untraceable campaign spending known as dark money made him do it.

Unemployment in the UK is at its lowest level since the 1970s, but the country also has the weakest wage growth for 200 years. With the parties competing to offer a higher basic wage, how did this situation come about?

This non-partisan comprehensive guide to Congress explains the legislative and congressional budget processes along with all aspects of Congress.

Wendy Schiller, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, Chair of Political Science, comments in The Guardian on Joe Biden's current situation.

Jeff Colgan and Nicholas Miller's article, Rival Hierarchies and the Origins of Nuclear Technology Sharing, was published in International Studies Quarterly on March 8, 2019.

Jeff Colgan, Richard Holbrooke Associate Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs, writes in International Studies Quarterly, Volume 63, Issue 2, June 2019, pages 310-321, about rival great powers and sharing nuclear technology.

Ashu Varshney, Sol Goldman Professor of International Studies and Social Sciences, Director of the Center for Contemporary South Asia, Professor of Political Science, and Bhanu Joshi, a graduate student in Political Science, comment to BBC News on India's PM Modi.

Hannah Baron, Political Science PhD candidate, and Rob Blair, Joukowsky Family Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, write about democratic erosion abroad increasing optimism about U.S. democracy in Inside Higher Ed.

Rose McDermott, David and Marianna Fisher University Professor of International Relations, Professor of Political Science, comments in The Christian Science Monitor about violence and its effect on becoming a more cooperative species.

Richard Locke, Provost and Professor of Political Science, was awarded an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant for his project, The Future of Work and its Implications for Higher Education.

This is Congress doing what it should have been doing for the last two years.

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 The Indian Express about the middle-class, clashes between India and Pakistan, and national security.

Wendy Schiller, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, Chair of Political Science, discusses rising political tensions on Bloomberg Daybreak.

Rich Arenberg, Visiting Professor of the Practice of Political Science, Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs, discusses his book, Congressional Procedure at the Watson Institute.

Mark Blyth, The William T. Rhodes '57 Professor of International Economics, writes in the New York Times about the value of currency.

Jeff Colgan, Richard Holbrooke Associate Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs, writes in Global Policy about climate politics.

Watch Prerna Singh, Mahatma Gandhi Associate Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs, present her work on States, Societies, and the Control of Contagion in China and India at the American Academy in Berlin, Germany.

President Donald Trump’s declaration of a national emergency Friday to obtain funding for a border wall that had been denied to him by Congress is sure to create enormous legal complications for the White House, but, given the promises and threats the president has made, it may have been the only politically palatable option he had left.

Prerna Singh is the Mahatma Gandhi Associate Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs, and co-convener of the Brown-Harvard-MIT Joint Seminar in South Asian Politics. She is presenting her project, “States, Societies, and the Control of Contagion in China and India,” at The American Academy in Berlin on February 19, 2019.

Mark Blyth, The William T. Rhodes '57 Professor of International Economics, discusses President Trump's State of the Union address.

Ross Cheit, Professor of Political Science, Professor of International and Public Affairs, Director of Graduate Studies, speaks on podcast Trending Globally about his course, 'Politics of Food,' and his forthcoming book, Big Fish: Politics, Policy and American Seafood.

Hannah Baron, Political Science PhD candidate, and Rob Blair, Joukowsky Family Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, write in Political Science Now on teaching democracy during Trump's presidency.

Ross Cheit, Professor of Political Science, Professor of International and Public Affairs, Director of Graduate Studies, comments on Elliott Abrams history even as Abrams is appointed envoy to Venezuela.

As British politicians struggle over the details of a bitter divorce from the European Union, two and a half years after the Brexit referendum, assessing the state of the EU — and reflecting on how it came to be — makes a lot of sense. Especially for those who care about the power of Europe to influence America’s stability, as well as the financial markets.

Jeff Colgan, Richard Holbrooke Associate Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs, addresses The Institute of International European Affairs.

Wendy Schiller, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, Chair of Political Science, writes in The Boston Globe about American democracy.

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 the urban poor and demonetisation.

Peter Andreas, John Hay Professor of Political Science and International Studies, is interviewed by Rolling Stone Magazine to discuss border walls.