"The President by himself cannot press a button and cause missiles to fly. He can only give an authenticated order which others would follow and then missiles would fly," Dr. Peter Feaver, a professor of public policy and political science at Duke University, told congressional lawmakers last... Read More about Peter Feaver's congressional testimonial reported in CNN Politics »
Alexander, Kathryn J. 2017. “Religiosity and Bellicosity: The Impact of Religious Commitment on Patterns of Interstate Conflict,” Journal of Global Security Studies 2(4): 271-287.
Are states with religiously committed citizens more likely to initiate conflict than states with less committed... Read More about Fall 2017 Duke Political Science Publications »
From Duke Today:
Three Duke University students have been named Schwarzman Scholars, a program that funds one year of study in Beijing, China.
Seniors Riyanka Ganguly of Seattle, Amy Kramer of Boca Raton, Florida, and Aron Rimanyi of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, were named to the third... Read More about Three Duke political science students named Schwarzman Scholars »
From Duke Today:
John Podesta, who chaired Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign and served as chief of staff to President Clinton and counselor to President Obama, will speak at Duke University Wednesday, Nov. 29.
The event in Penn Pavilion on West Campus is free and open to the public... Read More about Duke political scientist hosts public discussion with John Podesta »
The time may be ripe for Congress to look at the command and control system currently used to determine whether or not to launch a nuclear weapon, Duke political science professor and former National Security Adviser Peter Feaver testified Tuesday.
Feaver, who served as a security adviser under... Read More about Peter Feaver testifies before Senate Foreign Relations Committee »
One of the many insights senior Chinmay Pandit has learned this fall is this: “philosophers are not infallible or consistent.”
“Revolutionary thinkers have contributed in meaningful ways to the creation of democracies but have simultaneously justified perverse, backwards ideals in their... Read More about Highlighting Genevieve Rousseliere, our new faculty »
From Duke Today
War, drug lords and gangsters were decades-old realities in Ana Montoya’s native Colombia.
But the violence wasn’t as common in Bogota, the capital city where she lived.
Then came May 15, 2012.
A bomb ripped through an SUV one block from Montoya as she walked to the... Read More about Through DevLab@Duke, Students Improve Human Condition Worldwide »