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Wilson Center Hosts PLAID Project for Discussion of Greening Aid?
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The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars’ Environmental Change and Security Program and the World Resources Institute hosted a discussion of the PLAID project's new book, Greening Aid. The discussion featured co-authors J. Timmons Roberts, Michael J. Tierney, and Bradley C. Parks. The event also featured comments from Robert Goodland, former Environmental Advisor at the World Bank and opening remarks were provided by Manish Bapna, Executive Vice President and Managing Director, World Resources Institute.
Watch the video of this event or view the power point slides.
Institute-Sponsored Speaker Professor John Mearsheimer Draws Record Audience
Eminent Scholar Speaks to Hundreds on U.S. Middle East Policy
Named one of the most influential international relations scholars of the last 20 years by the TRIP survey, John J. Mearsheimer, the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science and co-director of the Program on International Security Policy at the University of Chicago, gave a public lecture at the Institute on Monday, April 7th. The talk, "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Middle East Policy" drew a crowd of over 600 students, faculty, and community members. The public talk followed smaller lectures to William and Mary students and faculty targeted at a diverse array of current issues in international politics.
Professor Mearsheimer, one of the premier international relations scholars in the United States today, has published widely on security issues, international relations theory, and contemporary international affairs in both academic journals and popular magazines. The most recent of his four books, The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy (with Stephen M. Walt, 2007), sparked heated debate within both the academy and the popular press about the complex relationship between the United States and Israel during the post-911 era.
Inside the Ivory Tower in Foreign Policy
By Daniel Maliniak, Amy Oakes, Susan Peterson, and Michael J. Tierney
Professors of international relations shape future policy debates and mold the next generation of leaders. So who are these dons of diplomacy, and what do they believe? In the most comprehensive survey of its kind, we unlock the door to the academy, examining what these scholars write and think about international politics, and what they are teaching tomorrow’s leaders. The view from the academy allows scholars to reflect dispassionately on vexing foreign-policy problems, discern underlying patterns in state behavior, anticipate future threats, and forecast the consequences of different policy options. Read More | TRIP Project
New Book: Greening Aid? Understanding Environmental Assistance to Developing Countries
By Robert L. Hicks, Bradley C. Parks, J. Timmons Roberts, Michael J. Tierney
Every year, billions of dollars of environmental aid flow from the rich governments of the North to the poor governments of the South. Why do donors provide this aid? What do they seek to achieve? How effective is the aid given? And does it always go to the places of greatest environmental need?
All of these questions and many more are addressed in this groundbreaking text, which is based on the authors' work compiling the most comprehensive dataset of foreign aid ever assembled. Order Now | PLAID Project
Full TRIP Survey Report: The View from the Ivory Tower
By Daniel Maliniak, Amy Oakes, Susan Peterson, and Michael J. Tierney
In this report, we describe the results of the 2006 TRIP survey of IR faculty. In the fall of 2004 we conducted the most extensive and systematic survey to date of IR scholars in the United States. Two years later, in the fall of 2006, we followed up that survey to track changes in views and practices of IR scholars. The 2006 survey contained 36 new questions that were not included in the prior survey, and we expanded the geographic scope of our survey to include scholars at both U.S. and Canadian colleges and universities. This report contains descriptive statistics for every question in the 2006... Read More | TRIP Project
Coming Soon From the Institute...
Nuclear Rhetoric Project, headed by Amy Oakes.