Tower Center Senior Fellows Matthew Wilson and Harold Clarke commented on the…
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Tower Scholar Starts His Own Political Consulting Firm
Last year Highland Capital Management Tower Scholar Zach Miller started his own…
Colin Powell Fellowships Announced for 2018-2019
James Hollifield: Why Immigration Reform is so Hard
Tower Center Academic Director James F. Hollifield wrote an essay for the…
Experts: The ‘Trump Bump’ in the stock market is real. But it’s not helping Trump.
Tower Center Experts Harold Clarke and Marianne Stewart authored a post for…
TC Experts Discuss Viability of Austerity Politics in UK
Tower Center affiliates Harold D. Clarke and Marianne Stewart authored an article…
The Crackdown in Saudi Arabia: Former Amb. Robert Jordan weighs in
Saudi Arabia’s crown prince Mohammed bin Salman arrested as many as 500…
Tower Center Fellow Conducts Interviews in Norway
Tower Center Fellow Dr. LaiYee Leong is conducting interviews in Oslo, Norway, as part of an oral history project for the SMU Center for Presidential History. The project focuses on transatlantic relations during the George W. Bush administration. This past month, she recorded conversations with Norway’s former prime minister Kjell Magne Bondevik and former defense minister Kristin Krohn Devold.
New scholarship for SMU students studying in Japan honors Dr. H Neill McFarland
The ORIX Americas Miyauchi Charitable Foundation has agreed to fund a scholarship for SMU students who participate in the SMU-in-Japan study abroad program at Kwansei Gakuin University (KGU). The grant will be $20,000 per year, beginning in 2018, for five years. The scholarship, founded in the SMU Tower Center Sun & Star Program on Japan and East Asia, intends to commemorate Dr. H Neill McFarland’s contribution to U.S.-Japan relations by building ties between SMU and KGU.
Will President Xi Jinping seek a third term?
Hiroki Takeuchi, Tower Center Senior Fellow and Director of the Sun &…