News // Department of Political Science // University of Notre Dame

September 20, 2018

Video: Notre Dame international security expert Joseph Parent on what happens when great powers decline

Joseph Parent, an associate professor of political science and associate director of the Notre Dame International Security Center, recently studied...

June 29, 2018

Video: Eugene Gholz on military technology and grand strategy

Gholz’s work focuses on issues at the intersection of national security and economic policy. A former Pentagon senior adviser and...

January 25, 2018

Video: NDISC director on nuclear weapons, the military, and America's role in the world

Michael Desch is professor of political science and director of the Notre Dame International Security Center. His research interests include...

January 25, 2018

Video: NDISC director on nuclear weapons, the military, and America's role in the world

Michael Desch is professor of political science and director of the Notre Dame International Security Center. His research interests include...

January 23, 2018

Video: Notre Dame Washington Program offers opportunity to learn, live, and work in nation's capital

Sophomores and juniors from any major or college at the University of Notre Dame may participate in the semester-long Washington...

June 20, 2017

Video: After full-time service work, political science alumna excels in job at Facebook

“The liberal arts education is one of the best things Notre Dame offers,” said Kaitlin Sullivan ’10, now a product...

January 23, 2017

Video: Ford Motor Company Vice President Bill Dirksen ’82 on his liberal arts education

“The liberal education I received at Notre Dame really taught me how to learn, how to analyze, and, at the...

November 01, 2016

Video: Professor David Campbell on political involvement and civic engagement

David Campbell is the Packey J. Dee Professor of American Democracy and chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of...

September 08, 2016

Video: Why Mallory Brown ’06 hires Arts and Letters majors at her global consulting firm

A political science major and a German minor in the College of Arts and Letters, Mallory Brown has spent her...

September 08, 2016

Video: John Phillips ’66, U.S. ambassador to Italy, on the many benefits of the liberal arts

“A liberal arts education gives you really good foundation,” said John Phillips ’66, a College of Arts and Letters alumnus...

December 13, 2015

Video: Political Science Major Researches Impact of Communist Ideology in Shanghai

During the summer of 2015, Notre Dame history and political science major Matt Souza interviewed laborers in multiple Chinese cities....

November 16, 2015

Marie Kissel ’83 on Study Abroad and the Liberal Arts as a Foundation for an International Career

Marie Kissel ’83 traces much of her success back to one key point in her Notre Dame experience: going overseas...

January 27, 2015

Video: Political Scientist on Latino Civic Engagement in America

“I want to do research that provides some hints to both major political parties as to how they might be...

October 21, 2014

Video: Arts and Letters Alumnus Bob Conway, Senior Director, Goldman Sachs

“The breadth of studies that I had at Notre Dame, whether it was in philosophy, or theology, or economics, or...

October 01, 2013

Video: Meet Political Science Major Monica Torres

“The thing that I like the most about political science is to be able to analyze things that are going...