Government Professor, Sean Westwood, weighs in on his recent research regarding American support for political violence. Read the full article here.
[more]After graduating from Dartmouth, I joined the staff of Foreign Affairs magazine, and I've been working there ever since. Currently, I'm an executive editor, which means I do a lot of commissioning and editing for the publication. I'm also working on a book about the 1960s Congo Crisis.
[more]After graduating in 2004, and a brief stint consulting at Booz Allen Hamilton in DC and PACT Cambodia in Phnom Penh – I did what many Dartmouth government majors do, I went to law school. I definitely didn't know how to "think like a lawyer" yet when I began, but I know Dartmouth helped prepare me to think critically and write analytically. (I still remember Professor Press sawing up the first paper I wrote in his class.) Eventually, I made my way from litigation to transactional practice, but I still rely on careful and logical writing and analysis every day.
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Prof. John Carey on Afghan democracy. As advisers to the U.S. government's efforts to establish democratic institutions in Afghanistan, the political scientist and his colleague "witnessed multiple missteps that helped seal Afghan democracy's fate," they write in a "Washington Post" op-ed. Read the full article here.
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