Presidential candidates promise to change policies“with the stroke of a pen” as soon as they get in office. Schar School scholars explore how often that actually happens.
Global efforts to combat bioterrorism and strengthen international health security face a major crisis: The 1972 Biological Weapons Convention is in dire financial straits.
The first weeks of Donald Trump’s presidency saw the new U.S. administration initiating changes likely to reshape the policy environment—perhaps quite drastically—around many issues at the intersection of religion and international affairs.
It was “old home evening” at the Schar School on March 30 when Francis (Frank) Fukuyama returned to the site of his early career successes (1996-2000) to provide the annual Harold Gortner Lecture in political science. As such, many friends and former colleagues joined in welcoming Dr. Fukuyama back to where he started his academic career.
The note appeared on Wilberg Rivera’s phone while he was eating at Ike’s on the Fairfax Campus. It was the White House, informing the George Mason University freshman that he’d been accepted into a paid internship position and that he needed to schedule a background check.
While Hillary Clinton was losing Montana by more than 23 points, Steve Bullock was elected governor running as a progressive Democrat. What can the rest of us learn from Montana?
The Honorable Luis Guillermo Solís Rivera, the 47th President of the Republic of Costa Rica, was on the Arlington Campus recently for two events sponsored by the Schar School. President Solís’s academic background and interest in history were evident in the talk he presented to Schar School faculty, staff, alumni, and students; participants from other elements of the Mason community; and individuals from our broader Arlington neighborhood.
The United Kingdom will officially leave the European Union on March 29, 2019.
On March 9, the Schar School of Policy and Government hosted a research workshop exploring organ transplant policy. Convening scholars from both within and outside Mason, participants explored new avenues for research into the ethics, security, and disparity issues surrounding organ transplants. Topics ranged from organ trafficking and the implications of donor compensation to methodological modeling and trafficking prevention.
The Trump administration’s new executive order that redefined an immigration and travel ban targeting Muslim-majority countries is designed to avoid the chaos of the first travel ban in late January. Among the new provisions: Iraqi citizens have been dropped from the embargo.