Maxwell School News and Commentary
Armstrong speaks to the Hill about new Harriet Tubman film
See related: Black, Education, Gender and Sex, Housing, Human Rights, United States
Elizabeth Cohen cited in NY Mag article on ICE, McKinsey & Company
Illegal: How America's Lawless Immigration Regime Threatens Us All, a book by Elizabeth F. Cohen, professor of political science, was cited in a New York Times and ProPublica report on McKinsey and Company's ties to President Trump's immigration policies.
See related: Federal, U.S. Immigration, United States
Inaugural VPPCE program off to a successful start
See related: State & Local, United States, Veterans
Maxwell School remembers Advisory Board member Paul Volcker
See related: Economic Policy, In Memoriam
Gueorguiev article on China, dictatorship published in Washington Post
"Democracy is not the same thing as providing for the population’s needs...the CCP will never commit to trusting the public over its own political interests. It will resort to force when necessary, as it has in the past, and this use of force is the very essence of dictatorship," writes Dimitar Gueorguiev, assistant professor of political science.
See related: China, Government
Maxwell student Kyle Rosenblum named SU's first Schwarzman Scholar
Rosenblum, a senior policy studies major in the College of Arts and Sciences and Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and a psychology major in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been named a Schwarzman Scholar. The program provides scholars the opportunity to develop their leadership skills and professional networks through a one-year master’s degree at Tsinghua University in Beijing.
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Reeher comments on the political impact of impeachment in The Hill
"On paper, you would say it has to hurt him [Trump] and there are public opinion data that back that up," says Professor of Political Science Grant Reeher. "But there are different ways this might be spun that we can’t predict right now. It could be that this mobilizes a set of voters in a way that helps Trump."
See related: Federal, U.S. Elections, United States
McDowell discusses history of the Washington Consensus on World Politics Review podcast
Bhan weighs in on call for Israel model in Kashmir in Al Jazeera
See related: Conflict, South Asia