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July 8, 2025
Jacob Shapiro joins SPIA faculty sharing the books on their summer reading lists.
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July 2, 2025
APSA highlights the work of first year graduate student Nia Atkins, studying race and ethnic politics and American Politics.
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July 2, 2025
Professor Stephen Macedo recommends books that look at pandemic politics, the plight of American politics today, and the hope that can be found looking at the presidency of Franklin Delano
Robert George
June 30, 2025
Professor Robert George writes an opinion piece for the Washington Post with Cornel West titled " To save themselves, universities must cultivate civic friendship: Doing so is crucial to the
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June 27, 2025
Professor Frances Lee was quoted in a New York Times opinion piece by Thomas B. Edsall. "'An objective look at both party’s coalitions in the mass electorate would have to
Robert George
June 26, 2025
Professor Robert George talks with The College Fix about his new book "Truth Matters: A Dialogue on Fruitful Disagreement in an Age of Division" that he co-authored with Cornel West
Germán Gieczewski
June 21, 2025
with Korhan Koçak (NYU Abu Dhabi) for their 2024 article “Collective Procrastination and Protest Cycles” published in the American Journal of Political Science.
Amaney A. Jamal
June 18, 2025
A new Arab Barometer survey by Prof. Amaney Jamal and Dr. Michael Robbins found that while the interests of Arab countries have not changed since Oct. 7, “foreign policies have
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June 18, 2025
Jacob N. Shapiro, Professor of Politics and International Affairs “An under-reported aspect of this conflict is the potential long-run consequences for U.S. diplomacy. The U.S. and Iran were negotiating when
Robert George
June 16, 2025
"By challenging others and by allowing others to challenge us, especially on the big issues, we can deepen our understanding, correct errors, and get nearer to the fullness of truth."
Melissa Lane
June 13, 2025
Melissa Lane on the Philosophy Bites Podcast episode titled "Melissa Lane on Plato, Rule, and Office." "[F]ar from advocating untrammeled absolutist power, the whole concern of the republic is how
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June 12, 2025
"As in debates about privacy, someone sooner or later will say that anyone who has nothing to hide should not hide their face. But in an age of ubiquitous surveillance
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June 11, 2025
G. John Ikenberry joins Victor Cha and John Hamre in writing How Global Governance Can Survive: With the Right Reforms, the G-7 Can Sustain the Rules-Based Order for Foreign Affairs
Honjo Scholarship Award recipients and representitives
June 11, 2025
Charlotte Fitzek, Rikio Inouye, and Etienne Gagnon
Grigo Pop-Eleches
June 10, 2025
Professor Grigore Pop-Eleches discusses his research on empathy and support for Ukraine in light of the growing war fatigue for a Stanford REDS seminar, co-hosted by CDDRL.
Professor Müller standing in bright room with arms crossed
June 9, 2025
"The Trump-Musk rift will reveal much about what kind of regime the Trumpists are really creating, and how far governing as a form of personal revenge might be pushed." Jan-Werner
Rob Oldham
June 6, 2025
2025 Carl Albert Award for the best dissertation in legislative studies and 2025 Jewell-Loewenberg Prize in Subnational Politics
Professor Müller standing in bright room with arms crossed
June 5, 2025
"Americans are learning the hard way that simply exposing corruption takes you only so far. There is a long-running pattern of right-wing populists coming to power as great anti-corruption crusaders
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June 2, 2025
“If I were a foreign government I would worry that even if I did get to a deal there’s nothing to ensure that he [President Trump] would stick to that