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One of President Biden’s first actions in the Oval Office was to recommit the U.S. to the Paris Climate Agreement.  Global environmental legal expert  Sue Biniaz and global environmental governance...
Ideas of India is a new podcast in which Mercatus Senior Research Fellow Shruti Rajagopalan examines the academic ideas that can propel India forward. You can subscribe to the podcast on Apple, ...
Elizabeth Nugent
The 2011 Arab Spring set both Tunisia and Egypt on a course toward democratization, but their trajectories soon diverged.  Tunisian political elites have since cooperated in passing a constitution,...
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A Yale team’s research into the COVID-19 pandemic’s effects on India’s most vulnerable populations, including urban laborers who lost their jobs and returned to the countryside, is providing...
Bruce Ackerman, Sterling Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science
Bruce Ackerman, Sterling Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science, has said he believes President Donald Trump will pardon himself before leaving office. But he told BBC World News that...
On December 9, the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences co-hosted “Steps Toward International Climate Governance...
Employees bury a person suspected of dying from COVID-19 at a cemetery in the outskirts of Sao Paulo, Brazil. Photo courtesy of VOA.
Sophia Dawkins, a Ph.D. candidate in political science, wrote the following commentary that appeared in Political Violence At A Glance on January 5. When the WHO declared a pandemic last March, UN...
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson signing the UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement as Lord David Frost, UK chief negotiator, and Sir Tim Barrow, UK ambassador to the EU, look on, December 30.
With time running out for an agreement on their future relationship that could be approved in time for it to take effect at midnight in Brussels—11 p.m. in London—on December 31, when the UK would...
The prospects of the inevitable end of the Bhumibol era loomed large over 21st century Thailand. Events have now taken their course, and King Maha Vajiralongkorn has been crowned. The new King is...
The following article written by Margaret Hedeman appeared in the Yale Daily News on November 18. From his home in Hamden, CT, Director of Hellenic Studies George Syrimis spoke to over 50 women...
Michel Barnier, the EU’s chief negotiator, updating the European Parliament on the EU-UK negotiation earlier today.
At midnight on December 31, the UK will leave the EU’s internal market and customs union, with or without an agreement regarding their future relationship. If an agreement is to take effect at that...
Bruce Ackerman
The following article written by Bruce Ackerman, Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science, appeared in today’s Slate: President-elect Joe Biden is already showing that he is serious...