Institute Impacts - Press Clips
The Institute produces work that has important impacts on both the scholarly and popular discourse. Below are some of the latest references to and reviews of the Institute's outputs in the popular press.
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Release: Environmental Leadership Reinvigorated
Friday, July 3, 2009
Glion, Switzerland, July 3, 2009 - A group of emerging environmental leaders today pledged their personal commitment to creating a new wave of environmental action in the 21st Century. Speaking at the close of four intense days of discussion, the group set out their practical ideas on how to kick-start a deep change in the way the world economy works to prioritize human welfare and how to finally secure a long-lasting, sustainable, approach to the use and preservation of our environment, which is the fundamental basis of that welfare.
"ONE Town Hall with Congressman Wittman"
April 14, 2009 | By Lauren Conn
April 14, 2009 | By Lauren Conn
Students from the College of William and Mary in partnership with ONE hosted their congressman, Rob Wittman at a ONE Town Hall in Williamsburg, VA yesterday to discuss global poverty and American foreign policy. The event drew many interested community members as well as students, faculty and staff from the College who were as anxious to show their first district representative their knowledge and involvment in the issues as they were excited to learn about his plans in the 111th Congress. | Read the Full Story »
"Scholars on the Sidelines"
April 13, 2009 | By Joseph S. Nye Jr. for The Washington Post
"President Obama has appointed some distinguished academic economists and lawyers to his administration, but few high-ranking political scientists have been named. In fact, the editors of a recent poll of more than 2,700 international relations experts declared that "the walls surrounding the ivory tower have never seemed so high..." | Read the Full Story »
"Enviro-activists"
February 21, 2009 | The Virginia Gazette
"There was a time when the United States led the way on international environmental cooperation," writes Maria Ivanova in the prestigious academic journal SAIS Review, published by John Hopkins University Press. (...) In the article, co- authored with Daniel C. Esty, an environmental law professor, Ivanova describes the U.S. effort that was instrumental in launching the U.N. Environmental Program in 1972. President Richard Nixon pledged to contribute 40% of the $100 million that initially capitalized the environment fund. (...)" | Read the Full Story »
"Support from Gates and Hewlett foundations take PLAID to the next level"
January 9, 2009 | by Joe McClain for W&M Ideation magazine
"PLAID is moving to the next level.
PLAID—the acronym for Project-Level Aid—has received nearly $2 million in financial support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. The funding will allow researchers to increase the size and depth of the project. Faculty involved in the project characterize the advancement as “moving from version 1.0 to 2.0. (...)” | Read the Full Story »
"Home at the Institute"
January 9, 2009 |by Joe McClain for W&M Ideation magazine
"In terms of number of students and faculty working on it, as well as funding, PLAID is the largest of the research projects operating from William and Mary’s new Institute for the Theory and Practice of International Relations. (...)" | Read the Full Story »
"New Book Examines Global Trends in Enviornmental Aid"
06/17/08 | Axcess News
"Washington - Denmark gives more in environmental aid funding than other countries,
according to a new book unveiled Wednesday at a lecture in the Woodrow Wilson International Center
for Scholars..." | Read the Full Story »
"Rich, Poor, and Climate Change"
06/17/08 | CNN.com
"The general dialogue on adapting to a world affected by climate change by definition excludes the world's poorest people. And yet it's the world's poorest who are often put forward as the ones who are likely to feel the affects of climate change the most and are likely to be able to deal with them the least..." | Read the Full Story »
"GREEN AID: New Book Finds Most Foreign Environmental Aid 'Dirty'"
06/16/08 Climate Wire
"Countries may make grand promises about bestowing environmental aid, but a new book finds that when it comes to forking over the cash, talk has been cheap..." | Read the Full Story »
"Foreign Aid"
06/14/08 | Virginia Gazette, Williamsburg, VA
"Every year, billions of dollars of environmental aid flow from the rich governments of the North to the poor 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 places of greatest environmental need ..." | Read the Full Story »
"7 Suggestions to the New World Bank"
05/30/07 | USA Today
Congratulations, Robert Zoellick, on your expected appointment as the new president of the World Bank. "You're about to assume a position that one Washington think tank, the Center for Global Development, once called "the hardest job in the world" — and that was before your predecessor flamed out in a spectacular conflict-of-interest scandal..."" | Read the Full Story »
"Roosevelt Top Foreign-Policy U.S. President, Survey Says"
02/23/07 | University Relations, College of William and Mary
"Williamsburg, VA - A recent survey conducted by researchers at the College of William and Mary ranked Franklin Roosevelt as the best president for U.S. foreign policy in the last 100 years. George W. Bush finished a distant twelfth..." | Read the Full Story »
"Containment Strategy"
12/06 | Atlantic Monthly
"In a dark-green shipping container outside a Ugandan military hospital, a visiting Tanzanian general and four of his colonels encircle a desk. On the desk sits a green plastic paper tray... " | Read the Full Story »
"AIDS Funding Problematic Despite Increases"
12/13/06 | W&M News
"The fight against global AIDS experienced a three-fold increase in cash after conservative U.S. leaders embraced the disease as a "moral" issue early in the decade, Susan Peterson, professor of government and dean for educational policy for arts and sciences, told the audience..." | Read the Full Story »
"Project PLAID Tracks, Evaluates Foreign Aid"
Fall 2006 | W&M Ideation magazine
"Inspired by students and driven by their involvement, Project PLAID is a shining example of the power and benefits of undergraduate research. (...)" | Read the Full Story »
Institute Events
Homecoming Celebrations
Friday, Oct. 24, 2008 4:00-6:00 p.m. | Reves Room/Patio, Wendy and Emory Reves Center for International Studies, College of W&M
All internationally-oriented alumni, students, and faculty were cordially invited to a reception co-hosted by the Reves Center for International Studies, the International Relations program, and the Institute for the Theory and Practice of International Relations. The reception featured wine and hors d'oeuvres and provided a great opportunity to see old friends and professors, to meet current students who are interested in international careers, and to hear about some new initiatives to internationalize the College.
Sunday, October 26, 2008 3:00-6:00 p.m. | The College of William and Mary Bookstore, 345 Duke of Gloucester Street
All were also cordially invited to a signing of PLAID's new book Greening Aid? Understanding the Environmental Impact of Development Assistance. All four authors, Robert L. Hicks, Bradley C. Parks, J. Timmons Roberts, and Michael J. Tierney, were present.
Michael Woolcock Visits the Institute
Monday, October 20, 2008 | Development Scholar Shares His Experience with Students
Students and faculty at the Institute had the opportunity to meet with
Michael Woolcock on Monday to discuss both his work and the
development world more broadly. Woolcock, who works for both the
University of Manchester and the World Bank's poverty alleviation
team, was visiting the College to give a public lecture on poverty
elimination and development fads of the past 40 years. During his
informal lunch at the Institute's offices, he spoke of his efforts to
bring a social perspective to the typically economics-focused field of
development aid. He then opened the floor to questions from students,
which ranged from his work on specific projects to applying to
graduate school programs and jobs with a development aid focus.
PLAID Receives Nearly $2 Million in Funding
Friday, September 19, 2008 | PLAID Receives Grants from Gates and Hewlett Foundations
An interdisciplinary program dedicated to offering detailed, accessible information on the flow of international aid will receive some aid of its own in the form of nearly $2 million in grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.
Oversees Development Institute Hosts PLAID Project for Discussion of Greening Aid?
Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2008 1:00-2:15 p.m. | 111 Westminster Bridge Road, London SE1 7JD
The Oversees Development Institute and the Oxford University Press hosted a discussion of the PLAID project's new book Greening Aid? Understanding Environmental Assistance to Developing Countries . The discussion featured co-authors J. Timmons Roberts and Bradley C. Parks. Other discussants included Camilla Toulmin, Director of the International Institute for Environment and Development, and Seán Doolan, Environmental Advisor for the Africa Division of the Department for International Development in the United Kingdom. The discussion was chaired by Neil Bird, a Research Fellow at the Forests, Environment, and Climate Change Program at ODI.
Tor read about and listen to audio from the event click here. View the event slides here.
Tim Kaine Meets PLAID Faculty and Students
Thursday, August 21, 2008 | VA Governor Receives Briefing During Tour of William and Mary
Virginia governor Tim Kaine was briefed by four members of the PLAID project as part of a visit to the College of William and Mary. Economics professor and PLAID researcher Rob Hicks, accompanied by students Dina Abdel-Fattah, Tommy Jones, and Christian Peratsakis, were one of three college endeavors presented to the governor during his tour of the Integrated Science Center on Wednesday.
Governor Kaine, who has previous experience with development work in Central America, was reportedly very interested in the project and asked a number of questions before being briefed on other topics.
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
Monday, April 7, 2008 | 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.