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Lovely speaks to China Daily about US techno-nationalism
Professor Mary Lovely says it's "not true" that the US sees all its technological advantages being stolen by China. "We can see the majority of high-tech goods, defined by the Chinese, are still being exported by foreign-invested enterprises operating in China. And (we can see) the amazing amount of R&D which is being done jointly by foreign companies in China, as well as the productivity of Chinese scholars (operating internationally)," she says. Read more in the China Daily article "'Techno-nationalism' unlikely to succeed: experts."
7/31/2020

Baker comments on call for Trump to use Defense Production Act in NYT
"What the federal government — the president or secretaries possessing delegated authority — have not done yet is use the D.P.A. [Defense Production Act] to create a permanent, sustainable, redundant, domestic supply chain for all things pandemic: testing, swabs, N95 masks, etc.," says Jamie Baker, director of the Institute for Security Policy and Law and professor of practice of public administration and international affairs. He was quoted in the New York Times article "Virus Surge Brings Calls for Trump to Invoke Defense Production Act."
7/31/2020

White quoted in NYT Magazine article on Black WWII veterans, racism
"So much of the G.I. Bill involved deference to state and local authorities," says Steven White, assistant professor of political science and author of World War II and American Racial Politics: Public Opinion, the Presidency and Civil Rights Advocacy. "Black southerners, even if they got benefits, they couldn’t go to the same colleges and universities. They couldn’t get the same jobs." White was quoted in the New York Times Magazine article "Returning From War, Returning to Racism."
7/30/2020

Catherine Gerard concludes 15 years of leadership at PARCC
After serving as its director or co-director since 2005, Catherine Gerard has stepped down from her leadership role at the Maxwell School’s renowned Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration (PARCC), effective July 1, 2020. Gerard will continue as an adjunct professor of public administration and associate director for the Executive Education Programs at Maxwell, and also continue her work as co-director of the Collaborative Governance Initiative at PARCC. Succeeding Gerard as PARCC’s new director is Tina Nabatchi, a long-time PARCC associate who also co-directs PARCC’s Collaborative Governance Initiative.
7/30/2020

Gadarian discusses the politics behind face masks on YANSS podcast
Shana Gadarian, associate professor of political science, was a guest on the You Are Not So Smart podcast. She explains how face masks, during the COVID-19 pandemic, became politicized and what we can learn from this going forward to help prevent a similar reaction when it comes time to convince to public they should get vaccinated. Her interview begins at approximately 37:20.
7/29/2020

Monnat article on rural population aging and health published in AJPH
"Rural Population Health and Aging: Toward a Multilevel and Multidimensional Research Agenda for the 2020s," co-authored by Shannon Monnat, was published in American Journal of Public Health. According to the authors, rural communities are not monolithic, and although some rural places are characterized by declining health, others have seen large improvements in population health. They draw on these realities to call for new research in five areas.
7/28/2020

Popp comments on green stimulus, economic crisis in MIT Tech Review
"What’s really important right now is getting money out quickly, and Congress can’t even do that," says David Popp, professor of public administration and international affairs. "I worry about tacking on green stimulus, or anything else that slows down the process. We can worry about financing the green transition six months from now." Popp was quoted in the MIT Technology Review article "The US needs a green stimulus—but not right now."
7/28/2020

Lovely weighs in on EU-China investment agreement in SCMP
"Given that many Chinese outward investors are state-owned or state-invested firms with access to state-owned banks, showing an absence of government subsidy could be difficult. Thus, the proposal alone can deter Chinese investment activity in Europe. In short, the pandemic has led to greater fear of Chinese unfair practices, not less," says Professor Mary Lovely. She was quoted in the South China Morning Post article "EU-China ties hinge on Germany’s political future as reign of Beijing ally Angela Merkel nears its end."
7/27/2020

Radcliffe article on face mask mandates published in The Hill
"Government officials have a primary duty to protect the lives, health and rights of citizens," writes Dana Radcliffe. "Since the pandemic poses a dire threat to public health and the economy, and since mask mandates are morally justified in these circumstances, the conclusion is that our leaders have an urgent duty to require people to wear masks in public places where there is a serious risk of transmitting the virus." His article "If government's first duty is to protect us, how can masks in public be optional?," co-authored with Martin Dobelle '19 EMPA, was published in The Hill.
7/27/2020

London talks to Military.com about study on vets with TBI, alcohol use
A new study from the Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion has found a subset of veterans drink more than others on a daily basis: those who have had a traumatic brain injury or been diagnosed with a psychiatric disorder. "A lot of discussion about alcohol and veterans or military service talks about veterans as a large homogenous group," says Andrew London. "What we found was that a statement like, 'veterans are more likely to drink than non-veterans' would be an overgeneralization and a mischaracterization, according to our results." Read more in the Military.com article "Vets With TBI, Mental Health Issues Drink More Often than Peers, Study Finds."
7/24/2020

Gadarian cited in FiveThirtyEight article on COVID-19, partisan divide
Shana Gadarian told FiveThirtyEight she was surprised to see such enormous divides emerge as the pandemic wore on. According to other research she’s conducted, moments of extreme anxiety and uncertainty can actually make people more open to new sources of information — including public health experts and leaders from the opposing party. So at the beginning of the pandemic, she and her team expected that Americans would coalesce around public health experts’ recommendations, or that other demographic factors — like age — would turn into key dividing lines.
7/24/2020

Zoli comments on Chinese hackers targeting US COVID-19 data in SCMP
"This is information warfare so there's a lot of evasion and distraction going on here," says Corri Zoli, director of research at the Syracuse University Institute for Security Policy and Law. "I think the issue is not that the Chinese need more clinical data to sort out their own vaccine programmes." China is more likely to be "trying to probe the US response to what really is an economic and security threat that is the pandemic," she adds. Read more in the South China Morning Post article "US indicts Chinese hackers on charges of targeting coronavirus vaccine data and defense secrets."
7/23/2020

Steinberg discusses importance of grand strategy in Foreign Affairs
"Even more important, a grand strategy provides a conceptual platform for a broad, vigorous, and informed public debate about the United States’ role in the world, one based on a rich and inclusive discussion of basic principles and that goes beyond the ad hoc, reactive analysis of day-to-day policy decisions," writes University Professor James Steinberg and co-author Francis J. Gavin. "A grand strategy allows an administration to articulate an overarching framework, and that articulation lets the public participate meaningfully in the decision about where to steer the ship of state and how best to get there." Their article, "The Vision Thing: Is Grand Strategy Dead?," was published in Foreign Affairs.
7/23/2020

Pralle discusses the climate crisis on WAER
"Unlike some problems like terrorism or chronic poverty or addiction, things like that, that are very difficult to figure out, the causal chains are hard, but (with climate crisis), we know what we need to do, which is stop emitting carbon emissions," Sarah Pralle, associate professor of political science, tells WAER. "So, we need to stop burning fossil fuels and we know when we need to do it." She was interviewed for the segment "CNY College Educators: Climate Crisis Has Slipped from Agenda, Has Parallels with COVID Crisis."
7/22/2020

Dickey weighs in on USDA union disagreement in Bloomberg Law article
"Prior to 2018 when the Department of Education made such a move, I had never seen a federal agency attempt to unilaterally implement an entire collective bargaining agreement outside of the normal process of negotiation and impasse resolution," says Todd Dickey, assistant professor of public administration and international affairs, about the disagreement between a U.S Department of Agriculture lawyers’ union and the agency’s general counsel. Read more about the dispute in the Bloomberg Law article "USDA, Staff Union Dispute Is Latest Among Federal Agencies."
7/21/2020

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