Int'l Politics & Economics

Professor Pyle will be hosting an informal ice-cream-and-hot-chocolate-cum-advising event for all International Politics and Economics (IPE) majors (and potential majors). Topics to discuss will likely include questions relating to study abroad, preparatory steps for writing a thesis and much, much more.”

Professor Pyle invites IP&E majors to stop by for an ice cream break and take this opportunity to ask questions about courses, the major, etc.

International Politics and Economics (IP&E) senior thesis writers will present their research via poster presentations.

“Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay” —Oliver Goldsmith, “The Deserted Village” (1770) Inequality is on the rise in the contemporary global economy, both within prosperous economies and between developed and developing countries. Can democracy sustain itself while acquiescing in a growing gap between the world’s haves and have-nots? Does the American dream depend on a foundation of shared prosperity that is increasingly a historical artifact?

Roundtable Discussion: Peter LIndert, Paul Pierson, and David Rueda Chair: Will Pyle, Director, International Politics and Economics Event will also be “live streamed” to Crossroad’s Cafe. SPONSORS: International Politics and Economics Program, Jones Economics Enrichment Fund, Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, Academic Enrichment Fund, the Departments of History, Political Science, and Religion, the Programs in European Studies and in Privilege & Poverty, the Scott Center for Spiritual and Religious Life, and Atwater, Brainerd, and Cook Commons

Panel Two: Who Wants What?

Panel Three: American Amnesia: The Forgotten Sources of our Shared Prosperity by Paul Pierson, John Gross Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley Moderator: Allison Stanger, Political Science Student Chair:Brian Rowett Event will also be “live streamed” to Crossroad’s Cafe. SPONSORS: International Politics and Economics Program, Jones Economics Enrichment Fund, Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, Academic Enrichment Fund, the Departments of History, Political Science, and Religion, the Programs in European Studies and in Privilege & Pove

Panel One: Inequality from 1650-2050 by Peter Lindert, Distinguished Professor of Economicsm, University of California-Davis Moderator: Leticia Arroyo Abad, Economics Student Chair: Grecia De La O Abarca Event will also be “live streamed” to Crossroad’s Cafe. SPONSORS: International Politics and Economics Program, Jones Enrichment Fund, Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, Academic Enrichment Fund, the Departments of History, Political Science, and Religion, the Programs in European Studies and in Privilege & Poverty, the Scott Center for Spiritual and Religious Li

The Global Illicit Drug Trade: Confronting Challenges and Exploring Solutions

12:15 Opening Remarks William Pyle, Director, Program in International Politics and Economics (IP&E)

12:30  Peter Reuter, University of Maryland

The International Drug Policy Reform Agenda: Why It Misses the Major Problems and Opportunities Student moderator: Yuchen Zhu (’18), IP&E major

1:45 Beau Kilmer, RAND