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.

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.

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.

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.

Mark Blyth, The William T. Rhodes '57 Professor of International Economics, spoke with Social Europe on the cirsis of globalization, populism, Brexit and other political disasters.

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.

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.

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

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.

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