Maxwell School News and Commentary
Khalil discusses US foreign policy in the Middle East on WNUR radio
Smullen weighs in on Trump's military spending plan on WAER
“If I’m an ally and I hear that I’m not going to get as much foreign aid as I had anticipated or that I had been receiving because money is going to be diverted to the defense department, I’m not going to be very happy with that,” says Colonel F. William Smullen, director of national security studies at the Maxwell School.
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Elizabeth Cohen op-ed on Trump's immigration policies in Politico
"The goals of nativist enclave policies and a robust job-creating economy are fundamentally at odds with one another. A full-throated embrace of nativism at this point will mean that we are walling ourselves inside our nation only to discover that we have walled in the very people that enclave nativists sought to eject," writes Elizabeth Cohen, professor of political science.
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Burman chapter on tax expenditure limits published in The Economics of Tax Policy
Baltagi large factor model with structural instability article published in Journal of Econometrics
Hou study on local sales tax in US counties published in JPBAFM
Meghan Mistry, senior with PSc minor, recounts time at Syracuse
Lambright weighs in on plans for Mars exploration in FiveThirtyEight
“The moon program looks more and more like an astounding aberration in the American political context. The space station does show it’s feasible to have a long-term program, but it has to be maintained by a sequence of presidents and a sequence of NASAs. And that’s the dilemma,” says Professor Harry Lambright.
Fernandez de Castro quoted in US News article on Mexico and NAFTA
"From the far right to the far left, we all hate Mr. Trump," said Professor Rafael Fernández de Castro, who served as an adviser to former Mexican President Felipe Calderon. "I have never seen this consensus in Mexico. Mexicans are rallying around it."
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Reeher discusses lower-level political appointees in Washington Examiner
"These are the folks who actually attempt to implement the policy changes that the administration is trying to push down from above," says Grant Reeher, professor of political science and director of the Campbell Public Affairs Institute, about the importance of political appointees below the Cabinet level.
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