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Guest Speaker- Political Science (Event canceled)
The department periodically hosts Friday afternoon socials, where student and faculty discuss timely issues of politics and governance. Photo: Caleb Eckert '17.
Students in the “Education Reform in America: Politics and Policy” class took a field trip to Lower Merion High School. See what other classes the department offers. Photo: Holden Blanco '17.
The Political Science Department offers a program of study that provides students with an opportunity to explore politics and government from multiple vantage points—at the grassroots, the nation-state, and the global community—and from a variety of theoretical, conceptual, comparative, historical, and experiential perspectives.
Blog Jan 6, 2022
By Logan Zurita McKinnon ’24; Photo by the Human Rights Campaign The politicization of AIDS is an interesting phenomenon as it draws from not only mainstream social stigma but also from religious issues and politicians’ need to please their constituents. This timeline is a more comprehensive compilation of important historical
Blog Jan 5, 2022
By Natalia Cordon ’22; Photo by Pascale Richard September 11, 2001, catalyzed the US economic recession. Upon witnessing or experiencing the traumatic terrorist attacks, Americans reflected on their material possessions and weighed their value to the intangible parts of life that also brought them joy– watching Sunday football with family,
Blog Dec 24, 2021
By Gray Pollack ’22; Satellite image by Maxar Technologies On December 20, 2021, Poland and Lithuania began to back Ukraine’s call for increased western sanctions against Russia’s troop build-up on Ukraine borders. Tensions between Ukraine and Russia have been volatile since Ukraine’s establishment in 1991, however increased in 2008 when
Blog Dec 24, 2021
By Eli Kravinsky ’24 War is expensive, and no other nation knows this like the United States does, which devotes more than three quarters of a trillion dollars annually to defense spending. Despite this astonishing sum, the U.S. is being outbuilt by its most serious rival in the most crucial
Blog Dec 24, 2021
By Eli Kravinsky ’24; Image by Getty In 1976 Mao Zedong, the towering founding figure of the People’s Republic of China, died and Communist China entered one of the most significant stages of its short history. As if to underscore how figuratively earth-shattering this event was, Mao’s death came just
Blog Dec 24, 2021
By Will Graves ’24; Image from LA Times/Kent Nishimura General perceptions of terrorist actors tend to follow the historical trend of assuming actors to be predominantly male. Growing involvement of female actors since the beginning of the twenty-first century indicates strategic motivations behind female terrorism held by both organizations, and
Blog Dec 24, 2021
By Lukas Voelkner ’24; Image by Bettmann/Getty Images The Ku Klan Klan is a United States terrorist organization that has been active since 1866 and focuses their efforts on the protection of white supremacy, in particular targeting African Americans and Jewish Americans. From research into the group’s founding, strategies, and
Blog Dec 24, 2021
By Paul-Andre Coulibaly ’23; Image by AFP/Getty Press of Taliban fighters celebrating in Kandahar In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, the United States has maintained a military presence in Afghanistan to ward off the Taliban from claiming political power in the country. Twenty years later, President Joe Biden abruptly
Blog Dec 22, 2021
By Lorelei Alverson; Image by Jens Wortmann On January 17th, 2017, women across America galvanized against the recent election of President Donald Trump in, what was seen then, as a monumental rejuvenation of the Feminist movement. Within one year, co-chair of the march Tamika Mallory was accused of espousing anti-semetic
Blog Dec 19, 2021
By Tanvi Jha; Image of former FARC rebels in 2020 by Luis Eduardo Noriega A/EPA The debate on the definition of terrorism is a difficult one. The classic saying “one man’s terrorist is another’s freedom fighter” rings too true in International Politics. However, the lines appear to become even blurrier