Alan W. Cafruny, the Henry Platt Bristol Professor of International Affairs, gave a presentation on "Europe, the Euro, and the Global Financial Crisis" at a workshop at Skidmore College on Nov. 5. The workshop was titled "After the Lisbon Treaty: Major Issues in European Union-United States Relations."

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Nine Hamilton students participated in the National Model United Nations Conference (NMUN) Oct. 29-31 in Washington, D.C. The conference drew more than 50 schools from the U.S., Canada and Europe and approximately 1,000 delegates.

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Alan Cafruny, the Henry Bristol Professor of International Affairs,  gave two public lectures in the UK.  He presented "The Obama Administration and the Mid-Term Elections: The Political Economy of Stagnation and Decline" at Kings College, University of London, on Oct. 13, and at Oxford Brookes University on  Oct. 14.

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WAMC/Northeast Public Radio in Albany will feature a reading by Professor of Government and Director of the Public Policy Program P. Gary Wyckoff on Thursday, Oct. 7, as part of the public radio station’s Academic Minute. The program normally airs each weekday at 7:37 a.m. and 3:56 p.m at 90.3 FM in the Clinton area but because WAMC is in its fall fund drive, the Academic Minute will not air at its usual times. Instead, it will be played as a floating module throughout the day.
 

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Associate Professor of Government Sharon Werning Rivera presented a paper titled “Trends in Elite Militarization under Putin” at the VIII World Congress of the International Council for Central and East European Studies (ICCEES) held July 26-31 in Stockholm. More ...

The Presidential Fellows Program, sponsored by the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress (CSPC), encourages students to think about the U.S. president's role, and this past year Andrew Steele ’10 was the first fellow from Hamilton. More ...

Political ideology goes a long way in determining how a state deals with a crisis. Authoritarian regimes, historically, have been the least tolerant of dissent, but authoritarian reactions to dissent have been diverse, ranging from openness and tolerance to censorship and violence. Levitt Fellow Cristina Garafola ’11 is especially interested in the authoritarian regimes in China and Russia, and will spend the summer  learning more about the cultures of dissent and the governments’ responses in China and Russia. More ...

“I don’t feel worthy of speaking to an economics class. I was a history major,” began CBS 60 Minutes producer and Hamilton alumnus Andrew Metz ’91. Formerly a reporter with Newsday covering the Middle East, Metz shared his experiences and observations on the region in Professor of Economics Erol Balkan’s Political Economics of the Middle East class on Tuesday, May 5. More ...

A panel of students taking Labor Economics with Associate Professor of Economics Stephen Wu presented the results of the most recent Levitt Center Youth Poll via webcast on Thursday, April 29. It surveyed high school students’ attitudes toward the U.S. economy and the performance of President Obama.

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