Robert H. (Bob) Allen Robert H. Allen, distinguished community-minded businessman and long-time supporter of the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University, passed away on January 10, 2015. After graduating from Texas A&M in 1950, Allen led a successful business career serving as CFO and later CEO, director, and chairman of […]
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Layne Elected to International Studies Association Leadership Position
Christopher Layne, University Distinguished Professor of International Affairs and Robert M. Gates Chair in National Security, at the Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University, has been elected to the Governing Council of the International Studies Association’s (ISA) International Security Studies Section. Professor Layne begins his three-year term in February during the […]
Cortes Wins Prestigious Musgrave Prize
Dr. Kalena Cortes, an assistant professor in the Department of Public Service and Administration at the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University, has won the 2014 Richard A. Musgrave Prize for her paper “Ranking Up by Moving Out: The Effect of the Texas Top 10% Plan on Property Values.” The […]
Liu and Vedlitz Publish in RHCPP
ISTPP Associate Research Scientist Xinsheng Liu and Director Arnold Vedlitz, along with former ISTPP Post-Doctorate Research Associate Hyung Sam Park, have published their article, “Analyzing Climate Change Debates in the U.S. Congress: Party Control and Mobilizing Networks,” in Risks, Hazards, and Crisis in Public Policy. In this study the authors determine that party control has significantly […]
Dr. Andrew L. Ross – Faculty Spotlight
Andrew Ross, a professor in the Department of International Affairs, earned his MA and PhD at Cornell University and his BA, summa cum laude, at American University. Ross joined the Bush School faculty in August 2014 following a nine-year appointment at the University of New Mexico (UNM), where he served as a professor of political […]
US Should Lift Ban On Oil And Gas Exports, Contend Scholars At Texas A&M Bush
Not only should the United States lift its ban on exporting oil and natural gas in light of today’s economic and political climate, but it was wrong to ever ban such exports in the first place, contend two top scholars at the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University. Dr. James […]
Bush School Students Launch Rwandan Agriculture Education Project
Students and one alum from the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University are launching a youth empowerment program in Rwanda called the Youth Ag-education Innovation Cooperative (YAIC). They have partnered with WeFeedUs and Building Bridges with Rwanda (BBR) to implement the program, which will begin in September 2015. Levi Brewer […]
Bush School Experts say The War on Poverty Needs a New Map
Government assistance programs like Medicaid, Food Stamps, and home heating aid all play an important role in the war against poverty; but that assistance is poorly targeted, say two scholars from The Mosbacher Institute for Trade, Economics, and Public Policy at the Bush School of Government and Public Service, located at Texas A&M University. In […]
Bush School Students and Russian Counterparts Discuss US-Russian Relations
Students at the Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University, recently participated in a video teleconference with their counterparts from the Russian Diplomatic Academy – the institution charged with training the Russian Federation’s diplomatic service. During the conference, Bush School and Russian students discussed a wide range of issues, including Ukraine, NATO, […]
Bush School Professor Testifies at United Nations Hearing
North Korea’s authoritarian government is responsible for the devastating famine that killed as many as 2.5 million of its citizens in the 1990s, even though it did not deliberately set out to do so, asserted Andrew S. Natsios, a former administrator of the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and now director of the Scowcroft […]
