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Alan Deardorff speaks with CNN Money about Trump’s position on NAFTA

Sep 28, 2016

Following the first presidential debate on Monday evening, Professor Alan Deardorff spoke with CNN Money writer Patrick Gillespie about Trump’s characterization of NAFTA.Trump has repeatedly called NAFTA a “terrible deal” that is responsible for the...

Ciorciari in The Conversation: Philippine President may affect regional security concerns

Sep 22, 2016

“How is incendiary rhetoric like [Philippine President Rodrigo] Duterte’s likely to affect a strong defense partnership and regional security more broadly?” John Ciorciari tackles this question in his September 21 piece in The Conversation, “Is...

Please join us in welcoming International Policy Center visiting scholar Tim Maurer

Sep 21, 2016

“The International Policy Center is pleased to host visiting scholar Tim Maurer, who is conducting cutting-edge research on cybersecurity and writing a book on the roles of non-state actors,” says John Ciorciari, director of the Ford School’s...

Michigan Journal of Public Affairs publishes 2016 volume on constitutional rights, freedoms

Sep 20, 2016

The editorial board of the Michigan Journal of Public Affairs (MJPA) is pleased to announce the 2016 edition and thirteenth volume of the student-run journal of the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.This year’s call for papers established the...

Graphic with text "Michigan Journal of Public Affairs in Solidarity with Black lives"

Science, Technology, and Public Policy program announces new director, welcomes applications

Sep 20, 2016

We are pleased to announce a new director of the University of Michigan's Science, Technology, and Public Policy (STPP) graduate certificate program and to welcome applications from interested students. Associate Professor Shobita Parthasarathy,...

Ciorciari's "Nationalist protests, government responses, and the risk of escalation"

Sep 15, 2016

The July 2016 edition of Security Studies features an article by John D. Ciorciari and Jessica Chen Weiss entitled, "Nationalist protests, government responses, and the risk of escalation in interstate disputes."AbstractWhile the existing literature...

Internship field report, Stephanie Gusching @ the U.S. Embassy, San Salvador

Sep 13, 2016

Stephanie Gusching (BA '18) submits this field report from her internship in San Salvador, El Salvador, where she worked at the U.S. Embassy through the U.S. Department of State Student Internship Program.Review more internship field reports from...

Internship field report, Robert Dickinson @ Haiti School Project, Port au Prince

Sep 13, 2016

Robert Dickinson (BA ’17) is submitting this field report from his summer 2016 internship at Haiti School Project in Port au Prince.Travelling always feels the same to me: the harsh recycled air on my flights; the long walkways and loudspeakers of...

Education is key to developing a better China, says Yvonne Chan of Ho & Ho Foundation

Sep 9, 2016

A generous gift from the Ho & Ho Foundation of Hong Kong will support initiatives that expose Ford School students—aspiring public servants and policy leaders—to China’s policy environment.Funded activities will include the Ford School’s U.S./China...

G20 decision could be the tipping point for free trade writes Deardorff in The Conversation

Sep 6, 2016

Alan Deardorff’s “Decision from G20 leaders could prove the tipping point for free trade,” published by The Conversation and syndicated by the Associated Press, encourages G20 leaders to push for the adoption of the World Trade Organization’s Trade...

Please welcome U.S. State Department Diplomat in Residence Andrew (Drew) Mann

Sep 6, 2016

The Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy is delighted to announce that Andrew (Drew) Mann has joined us as a U.S. Department of State Diplomat in Residence.Diplomats in Residence are career Foreign Service officers and specialists who provide...

Internship field report, Evan Charney @ Washington Institute for Near East Policy

Sep 2, 2016

Evan Charney (BA '18) is submitting this field report from his summer 2016 internship at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy in Washington, DC.This summer I interned as a research assistant at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy...

Waltz and Abouzahr pen Atlantic Council piece on extending U.S. sanctions in Syria

Sep 1, 2016

Susan Waltz and Hossam Abouzahr (MPP ’10) have collaborated on an op-ed, published earlier today in the Atlantic Council’s SyriaSource blog, on “Sanctions as a viable action in a complicated environment.”The House of Representatives, they explain,...

John Ciorciari on the South China Sea Decision and "protecting room for peaceful negotiation"

Aug 29, 2016

This July—a week after the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) issued what John Ciorciari called “a sweeping repudiation of China’s maritime claims in the South China Sea,” Ciorciari wrote an op-ed for China-US Focus titled, “Reverberations of the...

Internship field report, Michael Manansala @ Pearson Affordable Learning Fund, Manila

Aug 26, 2016

Michael Manansala (MPP '17) is submitting this field report from his summer 2016 internship at the Pearson Affordable Learning Fund, Manila, Philippines.With a couple of days left in my internship, I’m about to finalize my deliverables, dotting the...

Collins to serve as an evaluating judge for MacArthur Foundation's 100&Change competition

Aug 24, 2016

Susan M. Collins will serve as an evaluating judge for a new competition that will award a $100 million grant to a single proposal designed to help solve a critical problem affecting people, places, or the planet. The John D. and Catherine T....

Axelrod compares historical analogies used to make sense of 9/11, Mumbai, Tahrir Square

Aug 16, 2016

An article by Bob Axelrod and Larissa Forster (ARTIS Research), "How Historical Analogies in Newspapers of Five Countries Make Sense of Major Events: 9/11, Mumbai and Tahrir Square," has been published by the journal Research in Economics....

Internship field report, Farah Mandich @ European Bank for Reconstruction & Development

Aug 1, 2016

Farah Mandich (MPP ’17) is submitting this field report from her summer 2016 internship at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, London, United Kingdom, where she worked in the Office of the U.S. executive director. Hello from...

Internship field report, Maha Arshad (MPP '17) @ START, College Park, Maryland

Jul 27, 2016

Maha Arshad (MPP '17) submits this internship field report from her summer 2016 service with the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) in College Park, Maryland.Being in the DC area with driven...

Internship field report, Talha Mirza (BA ’18) @ the Canadian Parliament, Ottawa

Jul 21, 2016

This internship field report is submitted by Talha Mirza (BA '18), who interned with the Canadian Federal House of Commons (Canadian Parliament) in Ottawa. Review more internship field reports from Ford School students serving organizations around...

Internship field report, Eduardo Garcia (MPP’ 17) @ International Labor Organization, Chile

Jul 21, 2016

Eduardo García (MPP '17) offers this field report from Santiago, Chile where he’s working at the intersection of labor, migration, and human rights issues with the International Labor Organization’s Country Office for the South Cone of Latin...

Whitman in Detroit Free Press, “In Brexit debacle, who will lead from the edge of the inside?”

Jul 6, 2016

In a July 5 Detroit Free Press op-ed, Marina v.N. Whitman asks, “In Brexit debacle, who will lead from the edge of inside?”“On the same morning that we woke up to learn that British voters had set their country on a path of divorce from the European...

Dean Yang in WaPo, Brexit’s most severe impacts may extend to the developing world

Jun 28, 2016

The Washington Post’s “Wonkblog” cites Dean Yang’s work in “The people who will suffer the most severe impact of Brexit don’t live in the U.K.” The article, by Max Ehrenfreund, was published on Saturday, June 25.“Immigrants working in Britain send...

Internship field report, Nadia Vandergriff @ World Bank, Global Climate Change Policy

Jun 14, 2016

As a dual degree student with SNRE [the School of Natural Resources and Environment] and Ford, I am interested in pursuing a career in international development within the context of climate change as a complex environmental, social, and political...

Melvyn Levitsky in The Conversation, “Brazil: No longer the country of the future?”

Jun 2, 2016

Melvyn Levitsky, former U.S. ambassador to Brazil (1994-98) and a professor of international policy and practice at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, writes “Brazil: No longer the country of the future?” for The Conversation.Levitsky, who...

Shanghai Jiao Tong University hosts dean's forum for schools of public policy and affairs

Jun 1, 2016

Dean Susan M. Collins has just returned from China, where she attended a May 28 dean’s forum for schools of public policy and public affairs. The forum was generously hosted by Shanghai Jiao Tong University.Deans and academic leaders at the forum...

Ford School students blog about their experiences during 2016 U.S.-China policy trip

May 23, 2016

Each year, more than a dozen Ford School graduate students travel to China to study the nation’s policy environment. During their trip, they meet with a cross-section of leaders in the policy community and experience the nation’s history and...

Internship field report, Tarlie Townsend @ United Nations Population Fund in Hanoi

May 23, 2016

I left my house in the dark this morning. The electricity went out at 7:30, which I later learned was because I made the very American mistake of having the air conditioner and hot water heater on at the same time. My host family, a Vietnamese...

Mel Levitsky in U.S. News & World Report, "The inevitable decline of Putin's Russia"

May 23, 2016

In “The inevitable decline of Putin’s Russia,” an article in U.S. News & World Report, Melvyn Levitsky describes the risks of escalating military responses to Vladimir Putin’s land grabs, military incursions, and aggressive rhetoric.“I just don’t...

Congratulations to John Ciorciari, now associate professor of public policy with tenure

May 20, 2016

John Ciorciari, who joined the Ford School as an assistant professor of public policy in 2009, has been promoted to associate professor of public policy with tenure.His promotion was approved at the May 19, 2016 meeting of the University of Michigan...