Maxwell School News and Commentary
Summer Plans
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Lovely quoted in Quartz article on USMCA
See related: Canada, Economic Policy, Latin America & the Caribbean, Trade, United States
December graduates celebrate new skills, strong relationships
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Zogby honored as French institute’s keynote speaker
John Zogby ’74 M.A. (Hist) is a senior partner at John Zogby Strategies, and widely recognized as one of the most accurate pollsters in the world today.
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Reeher comments on impeachment vote in Democrat & Chronicle
"The fact that this in the end became such a strict party line vote, I think it’s going to reinforce the divisions that already exist," says Grant Reeher, professor of political science and director of the Campbell Public Affairs Institute.
See related: Congress, New York State, Political Parties, State & Local
Jok discusses the link between violence and corruption in the Citizen
"One thing that has not been clearly delineated about violence in South Sudan is the role of corruption as a most insidious driver of the ghastly inequities that have now come to characterize the young state as one of the most unequal societies in Africa," writes Jok Madut Jok, professor of anthropology.
See related: Africa (Sub-Saharan), Crime & Violence
McDowell examines affect of financial sanctions on US dollar in World Politics Review
Daniel McDowell, associate professor of political science, says it will be difficult for countries that are looking for ways to "de-dollarize."
See related: Economic Policy, International Affairs, United States
Ma explains why Chinese students study abroad in Washington Post piece
Yingyi Ma, professor of sociology, suggests that Chinese students are motivated to study abroad because of disappointment with the Chinese education system, which they assert “stifles creativity” and “entails hellish hours of studying.”
See related: China, U.S. Education
Banks comments on FISA reform in USA Today
Professor Emeritus William C. Banks said congressional action regarding FISA could further insert politics into a process that should be free of it. "All the politics that surrounded the headlines of this story would rear their ugly head again," he says. "It could end up with more amendments to FISA that do more harm than good."
See related: U.S. National Security, United States
Lovely discusses the US-China trade deal with Associated Press, BBC, CNN, PBS, Wall Street Journal
See related: China, Economic Policy, Trade, United States