The Worcester Telegram & Gazette reports Incumbents pile on
cash: US Rep. Neal prepares to fend off two challengersand quotes Professor
Jeffrey Berry. In the February 7, 2012 issue of the Worcester Telegram & Gazette
reporter Morgan True raises the question as to whether a run for government
office can be successful without adequate funding. True compares U.S. Rep.
Richard E. Neal's, D-Springfield. $2.4 million campaign treasury to Democrat
challenger Andrea Nuciforo's $136,000.
"To run without adequate funding is to lose," said Jeffrey
Berry, citing the difficulty in overcoming the name recognition of a
well-established member of Congress. In discussing Mr. Nuciforo's war check,
Professor Berry said, "If that's all he raises we're talking about chump
change."
Professor Jeffrey Berry weighs in on Brown's and Warren's
agreement by candidates to block third-party ads.
On January 24, 2012 WBUR
reported on Sen. Scott Brown's, and his Democratic challenger, Elizabeth
Warren's agreement to keep superPAC ads out of state. They have each signed a
pledge that would require each candidate to donate half the cost of any outside
ad to charity, if that ad either supports their candidacy or attacks their
opponent. "If it does, in fact, work," said Berry, "then the pressure will grow
in the next election cycle for candidates to agree to this kind of truce."
ISA recognizes Associate Professor Kelly Greenhill and her book
Weapons of Mass Migration: Forced Displacement, Coercion, and Foreign Policy.
Associate Professor Kelly Greenhill's Weapons of Mass Migration: Forced Displacement,
Coercion, and Foreign Policy was published in 2010 as part of Cornell
University Press's Cornell Studies in Security Affairs book series. Greenhill is
also the recipient of the 2011 International Studies Annual Best Book Award. It
has been conferred for the best book in the field of international studies with
a copyright dated the year before the nomination. Recipient of the Best Book
Award will receive $500 along with an award plaque and will be automatically
nominated for the ISA Book of the Decade Award.
The World Peace Foundation highlights Associate Professor Kelly
Greenhill's Dead Reckoning: Challenges in Measuring the Human Costs of
Conflict.On
February 10, 2012 The World Peace Foundation highlighted Greenhill's piece
Dead Reckoning: Challenges in Measuring the Human Cost of Conflict.
"Determining what is "old" and "new" about conflict demands attention to how we
know what we know" writes the WPF. "While there are increasing demands for
conflict data, as Greenhill argues in this post, "accurately assessing the human
cost of conflict can be difficult at best."'To read Greenhill's piece in its
entirety
click here.
Brown University hosts Associate Professor Deborah Schildkraut
at their 2011-2012 Political Science Seminar Series.
On February 15, 2012 Associate
Professor Deborah Schildkraut presented The Complicated Constituency: A Study
of Immigrant Opinions about Political Representation at Brown University's
2011-2012 Political Science Seminar Series.
Associate Professor Kelly Greenhill's Weapons of Mass Migration: Forced Displacement, Coercion, and Foreign Policy
was published in 2010 as part of Cornell University Press's Cornell Studies in Security Affairs book series.
The International Studies Annual Best Book Award is
conferred for the best book in
the field of international studies with a copyright dated the year before the nomination. The recipient of the
Best Book Award will receive $500 along with an award plaque and will be automatically nominated for the ISA
Book of the Decade Award.
The International Studies Association (ISA) was founded in 1959 to promote research and education in international
affairs. With well over five thousand members in North America and around the world, ISA is the most well respected
and widely known scholarly association in this field. ISA cooperates with 57 international studies organizations
in over 30 countries, is a member of the International Social Science Council, and enjoys nongovernmental
consultative status with the United Nations.
