One the Center for Grand Strategy’s directors, Jasen Castillo, co-authored two RAND studies that have been published in recent months, National Will to Fight: Why Some States Keep Fighting and Others Don’t and Will to Fight: Analyzing, Modeling, and Simulating the Will to Fight of Military Units.
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Bush School Graduate Research Reveals Highest Health Uninsurance Rates in Texas
New research published in The Takeaway, a policy brief produced by the Mosbacher Institute for Trade, Economics, and Public Policy at the Texas A&M University Bush School of Government and Public Service, found that while uninsured rates in Texas declined from 2012 to 2016, the state still leads the nation in health uninsured rates. Texas Lyceum […]
Bush School Former Student Creates Startup to Support Factory Workers in Tijuana
Five years ago, Bryce Watson, ’18, was living in China teaching English to factory workers’ children. Two weeks ago, he moved to Tijuana, Mexico, to work on his startup in preparation for the product’s full launch in August, the idea for which he had while living in China. Vize, Watson’s company, is designed to give […]
Drs. Liu, Mumpower, Portney, and Vedlitz Publish in Risk, Hazard & Crisis in Public Policy
ISTPP researchers, Drs. Xinsheng Liu, Jeryl Mumpower, Kent Portney, and Arnold Vedlitz, have published their research, “Perceived Risk of Terrorism and Policy Preferences for Government Counterterrorism Spending: Evidence from a U.S. National Panel Survey,” in Risk, Hazard & Crisis in Public Policy. Using data from a national two-wave panel survey, the authors investigate how individual social-economic-political […]
CGS Academic Director Delivers Talk at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Center
Video Dr. Jasen Castillo addressed questions pertaining to conditions that might facilitate nuclear escalation in a conventional conflict between the U.S. and Russia and how Russian nuclear strategy might affect its pursuit of foreign policy objectives. More information and video from the talk can be found online here.
ISTPP Researchers Hannibal and Vedlitz Publish in Sociological Spectrum
ISTPP researchers Dr. Bryce Hannibal and Dr. Arnold Vedlitz recently published a paper titled “Social Capital, Knowledge, and the Environment: the Effect of Interpersonal Communication on Climate Change Knowledge and Policy Preferences” in Sociological Spectrum. Drs. Hannibal and Vedlitz seek to identify relationships between interpersonal discussion networks and an individual’s assessed and perceived scientific knowledge of […]
CGS Academic Director Publishes Chapter in Edited Volume
Dr. Jasen Castillo, CGS Academic Director, published a chapter titled “Deliberate Escalation: Nuclear Strategies to Deter or to Stop Conventional Attacks” in Coercion: The Power to Hurt in International Politics (Oxford University Press, 2018) edited by Kelly M. Greenhill and Peter Krause.
Dr. Xinsheng Liu Named Changjiang Scholar
Dr. Xinsheng Liu, Research Scientist and Assistant Director of the Institute for Science, Technology and Public Policy at the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University, was recently named a Changjiang Scholar by the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China and the Li Ka Shing Foundation through a […]
The Scowcroft Institute Names New Senior Fellows
After a rigorous selection process, the Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs announced the selection of two Senior Fellows, Dr. Elizabeth Cameron and Dr. Rebecca Katz. During their time with the Institute, they will focus on research and will both be a part of the pandemic preparedness policy program. Each will produce a white paper based […]
Bush School Professors Have Chapters Featured in Book on the Trump Presidency and International Politics in the 21st Century
Bush School Professors F. Gregory Gause, III, and John Schuessler have chapters in a recently published book, Chaos in the Liberal Order: The Trump Presidency and International Politics in the Twenty-First. Chapter 21, written by Professor F. Gregory Gause, III, dives into “Donald Trump and the Middle East.” Chapter 29, written by Professor John Schuessler, is […]