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Professor John Schuessler Gives Keynote Address At Restraint and National Security Conference

On February 6, 2020, the Clements Center for National Security in partnership with the Texas A&M Albritton Center for Grand Strategy, Kissinger Center for Global Affairs at Johns Hopkins and the Duke University Program in American Grand Strategy hosted a conference on “Restraint and National Security.” The conference explored the intent, the causes, and the […]

John Avlon’s Washington’s Farewell: The Founding Father’s Warning to Future Generations

On Saturday, February 1st, the Albritton Center for Grand Strategy hosted a reading cohort social to discuss John Avlon’s Washington’s Farewell: The Founding Father’s Warning to Future Generations. The event was made possible by the John Quincy Adams Society (JQAS), a non-political and non-partisan organization “committed to identifying, educating, and equipping the next generation of scholars […]

Dr. Xinsheng Liu Presented Research at Southern Political Science Association Conference

Dr. Xinsheng Liu, Research Scientist at the Institute for Science, Technology, and Public Policy (ISTPP), presented a paper entitled “Local Air Pollution and Political Trust in China” at the 2020 Annual Conference of the Southern Political Science Association in San Juan, Puerto Rico, January 9-11, 2020. The paper was coauthored with Kent Portney (ISTPP Director), […]

ISTPP’s Hannibal and Portney Publish on Water-Energy-Food Nexus in Environmental Science and Policy

Dr. Kent Portney and Dr. Bryce Hannibal published a paper with ISTPP Fellows Dr. Bassel Daher, Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering at Texas A&M University, and Dr. Rabi Mohtar of American University in Beirut on communication levels between water-energy-food nexus researchers and stakeholders within the Greater San Antonio Area. Their work titled “Toward Understanding […]

The Rwanda Genocide: Twenty-Six Years Later

On Wednesday, February 26, Drs. Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau, Hélène Dumas, Henry Rousso, and Richard Golsan will participate in a public panel discussing the events and aftermath of the 1994 genocide of Rwandan Tutsi. In 1994, the Rwandan Civil War led to a three-month genocide of the Tutsi people, claiming the lives of an estimated 500,000 to […]

An Updated Look at California’s Solar Rooftop Experience

Falling solar prices spurred the author of “California’s Solar Rooftop Experience: An Update” to revisit an earlier economic review on the merits of implementing residential rooftop solar systems in California. As before, his analysis includes not only the costs and benefits for the solar adopters but also for the electricity providers, the government, and the […]

Reimagining Globalization Event at the Bush School

International economist Dani Rodrik of Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government will speak at the Bush School of Government and Public Service about reconciling today’s negative globalization trends. Rodrik objects to public commentary that fixates on advancing or reversing globalization and maintains that our task is to redesign globalization so that it better […]

Bush School Students Excited to Take Part in Congressional Candidates’ Forum

By Justin Bailey The Bush School’s Department of Public Service and Administration will sponsor a televised candidates’ forum this Saturday, January 25th, for the contenders for the District 17 U.S. House of Representatives seat. The forum, organized by KBTX of Bryan and KWTX of Waco, will air from 6:30 PM to 9 PM. As a […]