Dr. Chris J. Dolan, professor of political science and director of the Master of Science in Intelligence and Security Studies Program, was interviewed for the recent LebTown article, “Here’s what’s on the ballot for the Nov. 2. Election.” Dr. Dolan suggested voter turnout could be higher than traditionally due to heated school board races in response to the pandemic.

Dr. Chris Dolan, professor of political science and director of the LVC Center for Political History, published “After the U.S. Withdrawal” in The Hill on August 10. Dr. Dolan wrote about the geopolitical implications of the U.S. exit from Afghanistan.

Dr. Chris Dolan, professor of political science and director of the LVC Center for Political History, was invited by the Wilson Center to serve as a research associate on the Global Europe Working Group on the Western Balkans and Subgroup on Kosovo. Dr. Dolan will co-research Wilson Center policy reports on Euro-Atlantic integration prospects for Kosovo and North Macedonia, maligned disinformation operations and cyber threats, and the normalization of diplomatic relations between Kosovo and Serbia.

Dr. Chris Dolan, professor of political science and director of the Center for Political History, was recently notified by the Institute for International Education/U.S. Department of State that he received a U.S. Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award to the Republic of North Macedonia. South East European University in Tetovo will be his host institution, where Dr. Dolan will conduct research in rule of law, security sector reform, and Euro-Atlantic security through the grant that runs until June 2020. He will be working with Dr. Blerim Reka, Macedonian Ambassador and Chief of Mission of North Macedonia to the European Union, on NATO collective security measures and on the alignment of defense and foreign policy in Macedonia’s case for E.U. membership. 

His previous Fulbright award was with the University of Prishtina in Kosovo (2019–20).  

Dr. Chris Dolan’s chapter, “Containment, Engagement, and Continuity: China and the Evolution of Obama’s Foreign Policy Toward the Asia-Pacific,” will appear in the edited book: The Barack Obama Presidency: Legacy and Record, edited by Michael Grossman and Francis Schortgen. New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2021. Dr. Dolan is a professor of political science. 

Dr. James Broussard, professor of history and director of the Center for Political History, was quoted in the recent New York Times article by Mihir Zaveri, Shutdowns Are ‘All Games of Chicken.” Broussard shared the history of federal government spending, noting “The executive department, especially the military, would make contracts and then Congress would have to find the money to pay for them or else default on them.”

Dr. James Broussard, professor of history and director of the Center for Political History, wrote an op-ed, History has a clear message for Trump: Don’t fire Robert Mueller that was published on PennLive.