Tag: Department of Political Science and International Affairs

Larus Comments on U.S. Sanctions on Chinese, Russian Firms

Elizabeth Larus, Professor and Chairman of the Department of Political Science and International Affairs, was featured guest on the Pakistan news program In Focus South Asia on December 1, 2020. Dr. Larus debated three other guests on U.S. sanctions on Chinese and Russian firms that participate in Iran’s missile program. Her comments begin at 2 minutes. […]

Larus Featured Guest on Pakistan News Program

Elizabeth Larus, Professor and Chairman of the Department of Political Science and International Affairs, was a featured guest on the Pakistan news program In Focus South Asia on December 1, 2020. Professor Larus debated guests from China, Russia and Hungary on U.S. sanctions on Chinese and Russian firms that participate in Iran’s missile program. Her […]

Farnsworth Lectures on Presidential Election Results

Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the University’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies, recently delivered an online lecture, “Reviewing the 2020 Election: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly,” to The Woman’s Club of Richmond. Professor Farnsworth also fielded more than 90 news media calls on the US Presidential Election during October […]

Larus Comments on Taiwan’s Exclusion from Massive Asia-Pacific FTA

Political Science Professor Elizabeth Freund Larus commented in the South China Morning Post on Taiwan’s exclusion from the massive Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP). Professor Larus indicated that economic fallout from the exclusion might be limited and Taiwan still has a chance to join the alternate Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP). Read […]

Cooperman Discusses Republican Women in The Atlantic, The Daily Beast

Professor of Political Science Rosalyn Cooperman was quoted in an article in The Atlantic entitled, “Democrats Have a Republican Women Problem.”“Women are particularly good at thinking communally,” Rosalyn Cooperman, a political-science professor at the University of Mary Washington who studies women’s political involvement, told me. “They’re thinking about what this means for when their kids […]