COVID-19 and Policy: Looking Backward and Looking Forward

“I think we're in a tit-for-tat right now, which it actually represents a new phase of the conflict between the United States and Iran. Certainly, we're on our fifth consecutive day of strikes, which seem to be getting more aggressive on both sides,” says Vice Adm. Robert Murrett (Ret.), professor of practice of public administration and international affairs.

Aaron Lener ’27, an international relations major, has followed an insight, that language is about power, from Homer, New York, to the halls of the Council of Europe.

As they prepare to field the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System for 2027, states can secure the important data necessary to guide policy and resource choices related to food security, writes Colleen Heflin, professor of public administration and international affairs.

The Association for the Study of Food and Society Book Award recognizes outstanding books about food published within the two previous calendar years, with prizes given in three categories: monograph, edited volume and first book.

“The situation certainly makes it much harder for any replacement to defeat Collins, and therefore it makes it one seat harder to retake the Senate,” says Grant Reeher, professor of political science.

Part-time instructor of anthropology Fethi Keles's review of the book On the Record: Papers, Immigration, and Legal Advocacy, written by Susan Bibler Coutin, was published in the International Journal of Refugee Law.

The annual Matthew Ross Wanetik Memorial Scholarship recognizes Maxwell undergraduate Angelie “Angie” Serrano Baéz for academic excellence and a deep commitment to service.

“The role of politics in shaping the global currency hierarchy is seen as secondary to…baseline economic fundamentals,” wrote Daniel McDowell, professor of political science, for the Atlantic Council’s Geoeconomics Center. But that’s changing. “In the great global currency debate, market forces have never been more passé and political forces have never been so prominent.”

Co-authored by Assistant Professor of Geography and the Environment Meghan Kelly; Maxwell Ph.D. students Cameron Kline, Rachel Ameen and Brooklyn Montgomery; and Maxwell alum Simone Yoxall, the article was published in Cartographic Perspectives.