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NexPoint Tower Scholar Kennedy Moore’s Summer Learning about Emerging Public Policy Issues

The LBJ School of Public Affairs welcomed undergrads and recent postgrads from universities across the nation from historically underrepresented backgrounds for Public Service Leadership Weekend held July 17-20, 2025, at The University of Texas at Austin. The four-day conference empowers PSLW scholars to consider graduate degree programs and careers in public service. The LBJ School Public Service Leadership Weekend is co-sponsored by the Public Policy & International Affairs Program, the Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and Administration, and generous funding by the LBJ School’s Patman Center for Civic and Political Engagement. PHOTO: Thomas Meredith for the LBJ School

Kennedy Moore NexPoint Tower Scholar from Providence Village, Texas, double majoring in public policy and music with a minor in public policy and international affairs. I spent three days in […]

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NexPoint Tower Scholar Owen Bartosh’s Experience from Dallas to Prague: Advancing Public Policy Through Refugee Support

Owen Bartosh is a Class of 2028 NexPoint Tower Scholar from Waxahachie, Texas. He is currently pursuing a degree in marketing and public policy with minors in music and public […]

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Gerald and Kelli Ford Fellow Alicia Rivera Shares Her Capitol Hill Internship Experience

Alicia Rivera ‘25, a Tower Center Student Forum member, is double majoring in political science and psychology and minoring in statistical science. She was awarded the SMU Tower Center Kelli […]

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Event Blogs Sun & Star

Sun & Star: Cyber Great Game: Geopolitics and Geoeconomics for Data

The Great Game refers to the political and diplomatic tensions between the British Empire and Czarist Russia over territories in Central Asia and India over 100 years ago. This concept, […]

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Event Blogs Sun & Star

Sun & Star Webinar: The East Asian COVID-19 Paradox

The COVID-19 pandemic has ravaged the globe since its inception in 2019, and with it we have seen a variety of governmental responses. Nearly two years since the start of […]

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Event Blogs Security and Strategy

NS: Transatlantic Shakedown: Does Presidential “Naming and Shaming” Affect NATO Burden-sharing?

The United States’ relationship with its allies is a recurring topic in politics. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is a military intergovernmental alliance between European and North American countries. […]

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Consolidated Democracy is Hard

Achieving consolidated democracy is hard for the United States as well as other countries across the world. Many scholars in politics and economics have been attempting to figure out precisely […]

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Fellows in the News

Afghanistan: What Biden’s critics get wrong, and the debt owed Afghan refugees

Stefano Recchia, the John G. Tower Distinguished Chair in International Politics and National Security at SMU Tower Center, for a piece challenging critics of President Joe Biden and his decision […]

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The Power of the Party

Writing in the Boston Review, Tower Center Associate and SMU Assistant Professor of History Macabe Keliher reviews a number of works on the durability and nature of the Chinese Communist […]

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Expert Spotlight: UN Security Council Expert Dr. Richard Cupitt

Tower Center Undergraduate Fellow and Jack C. and Annette K. Vaughn Foreign Service and International Affairs Internship recipient, Varsha Appaji, had the opportunity to interview Dr. Richard Cupitt during her […]