Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the University’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies, recently gave a Washington lecture entitled, “U.S. Foreign Policy Formulation: Public Opinion and News Coverage of International Events,” to visiting journalists from Africa who were part of a recent U.S. State Department International Visitor Leadership Program. The talk was based, in part, on Farnsworth’s recently co-authored book, “The Global President: International Media and the US Government.”

Stephen Farnsworth, professor of political science and director of the University’s Center for Leadership and Media Studies, has been in considerable demand as a political analyst during the first week of the federal corruption trial of former Governor Bob McDonnell. His commentary has appeared in recent days in the New York Times, in Bloomberg News, on WAMU, Washington’s national public radio affiliate, and he appeared live on MSNBC’s program “Now with Alex Wagner.”