News: Governance
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Questions around Irish unity referendum to be examined in new initiative
January 11, 2021Patrick Griffin, director of the Keough School’s Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, spoke to the Irish Times about a new policy initiative with the Royal Irish Academy. […]
Sobering lessons for American democracy and the road ahead
January 2, 2021Over the past few years democracy has eroded rapidly in many parts of the world, including the United States. Well-regarded global democracy indexes such as […]
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Joe Biden and new administration could restore economic sanctions
December 4, 2020George A. Lopez, Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., Professor Emeritus of Peace Studies, considers how the Biden administration can adequately rehabilitate the use of economic […]
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Obama White House veterans urge Biden to embrace executive action
November 16, 2020Denis McDonough, professor of the practice of public policy and former White House Chief of Staff, shared insight on how President-elect Joe Biden might leverage […]
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Confronting our civics deficit
October 21, 2020William Collins Donahue, Rev. John J. Cavanaugh, C.S.C., Professor of the Humanities and director of the Initiative for Global Europe at the Keough School of […]
Belarus’s fight for democratic freedom: Solidarity over geopolitics
September 23, 2020More than a month has passed since the brazenly falsified official results of the August 9 presidential election in Belarus showed incumbent president Aliaksandr Lukashenka […]
“Seeing-as”
July 10, 2020An outcry In a particularly disturbing scene in J.M. Coetzee’s novel, Waiting for the Barbarians, the protagonist defends four prisoners who are about to be […]
Toward a new internationalism
May 4, 2020As we continue our isolation at home, haunted by messages of vulnerability and gloom, we ask ourselves: How will this end? What will the future […]