Maxwell School News and Commentary

According to Grant Reeher, professor of political science and director of the Campbell Public Affairs Institute, Trump's basic policy framework for energy—reducing regulation, producing and consuming more of America's own energy resources—has more obvious appeal and is easier to sell to voters.

Nilab Mobarez '16 E.M.P.A. has been appointed secretary general of the Afghan Red Crescent Society, which is the Afghan affiliate for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies—the world's largest humanitarian network. 

"We’ve built entire infrastructures with particular temperatures in mind," says Matthew Huber, associate professor of geography. "When temperatures get really high, we don’t have the material capacity to deal with that."

William C. Banks, professor of practice of public administration an international affairs, says it is up to individual states to reveal the extent to which their systems have been intruded upon. He adds that a federalized system with wide stratification of election officials bound to the county level makes the system resilient and harder to damage.

“We’ve had attacks, of course, Orlando for instance, San Bernadino, others. But we haven’t had the kind of proliferating attacks that Europe and Britain have had,” says Corri Zoli, director of research for the Institute for Security Policy and Law.

"I like to stay on the optimistic side to assume that though this seems to have stalled on the surface, ground work has never stopped," says Yilin Hou, professor of public administration and international affairs. "The Chinese style is, once something is announced, everything has been already done."