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Understanding How to Bolster the Security of Vulnerable Populations

June 26, 2012 |

In the summer issue of ArcUser, Esri writer Karen Richardson explores how CCAPS is using GIS to better learn how climate change, conflict, and aid intersect. Richardson’s article, Understanding How to Bolster the Security of Vulnerable Populations, provides an overview of CCAPS and how the collaborative research program’s mapping tool allows users to visualize data while…

Strauss Scholar Jeremi Suri on Public University Reform

June 25, 2012 |

Mack Brown Distinguished Chair for Leadership in Global Affairs Jeremi Suri wrote for CNN last week on public universities.

Associate Director Celeste Ward Gventer Leads Workshop on Reassessing Counterinsurgency

June 18, 2012 |

On June 7-9, the Strauss Center sponsored a workshop on counterinsurgency (COIN), led by Associate Director Celeste Ward Gventer and partners from King’s College London and the University of Queensland. The workshop assembled experts and scholars from many sides of the COIN debate to take a fresh look at this important and controversial subject.

Strauss Scholar Kuperman Quoted on Nuclear Nonproliferation

June 13, 2012 |

Professor Alan Kuperman, a Strauss Center Distinguished Scholar, was quoted in an article from the Global Security Newswire on Monday. The article responds to a new policy announced by the Obama administration last week that promotes the purchase of medical isotopes manufactured with proliferation-resistant nuclear material.

Director Francis J. Gavin in the Carnegie Reporter

June 5, 2012 |

Strauss Center Director Francis J. Gavin and Syracuse University’s James B. Steinberg were published in the Spring 2012 edition of the Carnegie Reporter. Their piece, “Mind the Gap; Why Policymakers And Scholars Ignore Each Other, And What Should Be Done About It,” addresses the important issue of connecting academic knowledge with the policymaking process.

Climate Will Pose Next Threat to Refugees from Fighting and Food Shortages in Mali

Joshua Busby notes in Lisa Friedman’s article in the Scientific American that the Sahel will have an additional 76 to 100 heat wave days by mid-century. According to Busby, “We’re going to start seeing physical changes outside the bounds of normal human experience in a region that has already experienced quite a lot of variance in…

Scholars Will Inboden and Josh Busby Featured in Foreign Affairs

May 31, 2012 |

Strauss Center Scholars Will Inboden, Josh Busby and their colleague Jonathan Monten, were featured on the homepage of Foreign Affairs today.  The article, “American Foreign Policy is Already Post-Partisan,” highlights the scholars’ recently completed study on multilateralism among U.S. foreign policy professionals.  They surveyed 50 Republicans and 50 Democrats who had served in a mid-level…

Strauss Scholar Busby on Hawkish Leaders

May 30, 2012 |

Strauss Scholar Joshua Busby was quoted in The National Interest article, “Why Americans Are less Hawkish than Their Leaders.” The article cites a recent publication that he and Jonathan Monten wrote in Political Science Quarterly on Republicans and their defense spending preferences.

“Ground Truthing” Vulnerability

The CCAPS program released a new research brief today based on field research assessing how local actors conceptualize climate change vulnerability and how well these realities are captured by the program’s vulnerability model. In “Ground Truthing” Vulnerability in Africa, LBJ School of Public Affairs graduate student Jared Berenter and CCAPS researcher Joshua Busby test, or…

Former Crook Fellow Honored at UT Commencement

May 21, 2012 |

Former Crook Fellow, Allison Ramirez, is featured on the University of Texas’ homepage in an article honoring students who have graduated in the 129th spring commencement ceremony this weekend. The article profiles 11 students who exemplify academic pursuit and using their education to “realize their dreams.” Ramirez shares her story of working to improve the…

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