Two Bush School of Government and Public Service students taking part in the Atlantic Council’s sixth annual Cyber 9/12 Strategy Challenge were charged with developing policy recommendations tackling a fictional cyber catastrophe. Second-year Master of International Affairs (MIA) candidate Patsy Taggart placed in the semi-finals at a Columbia University Atlantic Council competition. Taggart and second-year […]
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Texas A&M Bush School Student Selected as Presidential Management Fellow
Texas A&M Bush School of Government and Public Service student Alex Lam takes his next step toward a career in federal government with a two-year appointment to the Presidential Management Fellows (PMF) program, which offers advanced degree candidates a pathway into a career in public service. The prestigious Presidential Management Fellows program is a flagship […]
The Death of Jamal Khashoggi: What’s Next for Saudi Arabia and US-Saudi Relations?
President Trump’s response to the disappearance-turned-murder of Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi embassy in Turkey has raised deep concerns among the diplomatic community. Saudi Arabia maintains that the journalist for the Washington Post was killed by “rogue agents,” but questions still swirl about Khashoggi’s murder, and this will serve as the basis for the discussion […]
Bush School Students Intern at State, DOD, Study in Twenty-Three Foreign Countries
Students at the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University interned or studied languages in twenty-three countries outside the United States. Students also interned at federal agencies, state governments, and nonprofits, tackling border security and arms cooperation on the national level and child sex trafficking in Texas. Bush School students traveled […]
John Mearsheimer Discusses New Book at Bush School Event
Dr. John Mearsheimer will discuss his new book, The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities, on Thursday, September 27, 2018, from 6 – 7 p.m. The event, hosted by the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University will take place in the Annenberg Presidential Conference Center located on the Texas A&M […]
Bush School Professor Publishes Book on Religious Statecraft: The Politics of Islam in Iran
A new book, Religious Statecraft: The Politics of Islam in Iran, has been published by Dr. Mohammad Ayatollahi Tabaar, Texas A&M Bush School of Government and Public Service. It examines the politics of Islam, rather than political Islam, to better understand Iranian politics and its ideological contradictions. In his book, Dr. Tabaar examines fifty years of […]
Bush School students earn first place for research focused on gender and terrorism
Student researchers at the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University examining the possible links between gender issues and radicalization recently received first place in their category at Texas A&M’s Student Research Week. The research is part of a capstone project that all second-year Bush School students are required to complete […]
Mapping the Ugandan Cold Chain
In the United States, we tend to take for granted our refrigerated produce and how it navigates its way from the field to a processing center to our kitchen tables, remaining cold the entire time. Halfway around the world in Uganda, this seemingly mundane process is not an assumed facet of everyday life. Joel Taylor, […]
Faculty Spotlight: Dr. Silva Hamie
Dr. Silva Hamie, a Bush School lecturer since 2014, teaches courses in post-conflict recovery and development, the role of international organizations in peace and conflict, and qualitative research methods. This semester, she is teaching a class on clientelism, which looks at corruption in the developing world, and is also leading a capstone project for second-year […]
Narrowing the gender gap through statistical analysis: The WomanStats Project
As women around the world celebrate International Women’s Day on March 8, 2018, there are data demonstrating that true gender parity will not be a reality for many years. The good news is there is now global activism for women’s equality fueled by movements like #MeToo, #TimesUp, and more. Women are making positive gains, and […]