Why are some foreign policy advisers more influential than others? A new wave of scholarship illuminates how advisers gain influence generally but says little about which advisers get their way. We argue hawkish advisers have two built-in advantages in foreign policy decision-making in the United States. First, hawks make…
Mary L. Dudziak is a leading scholar of legal history and the United States and the World. She works at the intersection of US domestic law and international affairs. She is currently writing about war and political accountability in American history. Her earlier scholarship examined the intersection of race, civil rights, and…
This talk will examine how current discourse, clinical interventions, medical technologies, and policy responses to the opioid epidemic are racialized in the U.S., highlighting the role of whiteness and racial capitalism. We will trace how technologies of whiteness operated to respond to rising overdose deaths among whites…
Sarah Staszak received her PhD in Politics from Brandeis University and is a Research Scholar in Politics and the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. Her research and teaching interests include public law, policy, American political development, and American political economy. She is the author of No Day in…
Panelists will discuss Project Extreme, an NJ.com investigative report on white supremacy and extremism throughout New Jersey, exploring efforts by far-right actors to take a forward-looking state back in time.
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