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

February 03, 2022

Support international law in Russia-Ukraine crisis or risk losing the rules-based order, expert says

Mary Ellen O’Connell says that the Russia-Ukraine dispute holds the potential for the use of nuclear weapons, but even a conventional clash...

February 03, 2022

NDISC Seminar Series - Šumit Ganguly

On January 18th as part of the NDISC Seminar Series, Professor Šumit Ganguly presented “The Global Significance of the Sino-Indian...

February 03, 2022

Violence and Reconciliation: A Curated Reading List

The articles and essays in this curated list give a glimpse of the scholarly concerns of members of the Literatures...

February 03, 2022

Center Director Matt Hall Quoted in USA Today

Rooney Center Director and Professor of Constitutional Studies and Political Science Matthew E.K. Hall was quoted in a USA Today...

January 31, 2022

Notre Dame experts reflect on Brown Jackson and Childs as frontrunners for Supreme Court nomination

Dianne Pinderhughes, Matthew Hall and Christina Wolbrecht comment on Biden’s short list.

January 21, 2022

Pandemic, racial justice, the economy drove Notre Dame students to the polls in 2020

Nearly 72 percent of University of Notre Dame students voted in the 2020 election, up from 53.3 percent in 2016,...

January 21, 2022

Alumnus Joe Donnelly confirmed as US ambassador to the Holy See

The U.S. Senate today confirmed the nomination of University of Notre Dame alumnus and former senator Joe Donnelly as ambassador...

January 19, 2022

Biden’s Soft-Power Policy Faces Reality of Xi-Putin Big-Power World

“Big-power politics is back in a big way. It’s not a reality President Biden can wish away or ignore,” says...

January 13, 2022

Spring 2022 Menard Tocqueville Fellows Announced

The Center for Citizenship & Constitutional Government is proud to announce the selection of the Spring 2022 Menard Family Tocqueville...

January 13, 2022

Forthcoming in the next issue Spring 2022

Abbie LeBlanc, What Sophie Sees: Developing Judgement Through Property and Family in Rousseau's Émile Alan Kellner, Reading Conflict of the...

January 13, 2022

NATO expansion has brought neither peace nor democracy to post-Cold War Europe, says Notre Dame expert Michael Desch

Michael C. Desch, Packey J. Dee Professor of International Relations at the University of Notre Dame and Brian and Jeannelle...

January 06, 2022

Notre Dame’s Rooney Center for the Study of American Democracy creates The 1-6-25 Project, sounding alarm about impending threats to U.S. electoral system

The Rooney Center for the Study of American Democracy is launching The January 6th, 2025, Project — a research, teaching, and...

January 06, 2022

January 6th, 2025, Project Featured in The Hill

The Rooney Center's January 6th, 2025, Project was featured in an op-ed article in The Hill. In the article, Francis...

December 16, 2021

Europe’s border responses to COVID-19 in global context

In response to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, Europe saw most of its borders close internally...

December 07, 2021

In U.S. Foreign Policy, Is It Time to Kill All the Lawyers?

For example, in his recent book, Michael Desch argues that “the privileging of complex methods and universal models over engaging substantive...

December 03, 2021

CNST Course: Philanthropy and the Common Good students award $78,600 to local nonprofits

Offered through the Department of Political Science, the Hesburgh Program in Public Service, the Constitutional Studies Minor and the Center for Citizenship and Constitutional Government,...

November 29, 2021

5 Questions with A. James McAdams: Contemporary Far-Right Thinkers and the Future of Liberal Democracy

“5 Questions with … ” is a new series featuring short interviews with leading scholars and practitioners whose work directly...

November 27, 2021

David C. Leege, Emeritus Professor and Seminal Scholar of Religion and Politics Passes

It is with sadness that the Department of Political Science announces the passing of David C. Leege, Emeritus Professor of...

November 19, 2021

Rooney Center Releases 2020-2021 Year in Review

The Rooney Center for the Study of American Democracy has released its 2020-2021 Year in Review. Despite the unusual year...

November 15, 2021

American Defense Policy After Twenty Years of War

The American scorecard for foreign policy achievements over the past twenty years is, frankly, pretty dismal. And without talking our...