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The Urgent Need for a National Biosecurity Initiative
June 18, 2020
Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, a distinguished professor of the practice in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs and senior fellow in the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University, has co-authored “The Urgent Need for a National Biosecurity Initiative.” The Belfer Center article was written with John MacWilliams, a senior fellow at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy.
Read an excerpt:
Biological threats know no boundaries. The world needs the United States to provide leadership now to create and deploy a global biosecurity initiative modeled on the type of national and global network that we already use to protect the US and our allies from the threats of nuclear, radiological, and chemical attacks by nation states or terrorists: sophisticated sensors, intelligence gathering, highly-trained and ever-ready emergency response teams, and, urgently, technologies and methods to mitigate such threats. And if the United States doesn’t play this role, it will be the net loser too.
Read the article on the Belfer Center.
Published in: Belfer Center
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Mayor Bottoms Appoints Members to Use of Force Advisory Council
June 14, 2020
Joycelyn Wilson, assistant professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication, was named to Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms’ use-of-force advisory board, the Atlanta Daily World reported.
Read the story on the Atlanta Daily World website
Published in: Atlanta Daily World
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Atlanta Mayor Creates 'Use of Force' Council
June 9, 2020
Joycelyn Wilson, assistant professor of Hip Hop studies and digital humanities in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication, was named a member of the Use of Force Advisory Council created by Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms. CBS46 News, June 9, 2020.
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“The gravity of this Advisory Council’s actions and recommendations—and their potential to fundamentally transform the relationship between law enforcement officials and those they serve—cannot be understated,” said Mayor Bottoms. “Thank you to every member for their partnership and commitment to bettering the Atlanta community. With peoples’ very lives at stake, I look forward to their recommendations and assistance in implementing needed reforms to the City’s Use of Force policies.”
Published in: CBS46 News
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Nuclear deterrence today
June 8, 2020
Jessica Cox, a Sam Nunn Nunn School of International Affairs alumna who serves as the director of Nuclear Policy at NATO, wrote “Nuclear deterrence today” on NATO Review.
Read an excerpt:
At the height of the Cold War, the United States deployed approximately 7,300 nuclear weapons in Europe providing extended deterrence and security guarantees to NATO Allies. Today, the number of US nuclear weapons deployed in Europe in support of NATO has been reduced by 90 per cent since the end of the Cold War. Between 1991 and 1993 alone, the United States removed around 3,000 nuclear weapons from Europe. Between 2000 and 2010, the United States continued to reduce the number of nuclear weapons deployed in Europe and consolidated them at fewer bases. That limited posture remains the same to this day.
Read the piece on the NATO Review.
Published in: NATO Review
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China Unveils Plan to Make Hainan a Free Trade Hub like Hong Kong, Singapore as Risks of U.S. Decoupling Loom
June 2, 2020
Fei-Ling Wang, professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, was quoted in the article, "China Unveils Plan to Make Hainan a Free Trade Hub like Hong Kong, Singapore as Risks of U.S. Decoupling Loom" published in the South China Morning Post on June 2, 2020. An expert in regional security challenges focusing on the U.S. and China, Wang is the author of seven books including his most recent, The China Order: Centralia, World Empire, and the Nature of Chinese Power (Suny Press, 2017).
Excerpt:
Wang believes that the chance that Hainan will become another Hong Kong or another Hawaii is “very slim, if any at all.”
The key restriction, as usual, is political: there can be only so much ‘freedom’ of anything under the omnipresent party that has to control everything.
“Hainan cannot copy the critical advantages of Hong Kong without a fundamental political transformation [of China]: A well-established rule of law that protects property rights; individual freedoms; enforcement of contracts; and a good relationship with the West and the US in particular. The rest is just add-ons,” Wang said.
Published in: South China Morning Post
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How Karen became a meme, and what real-life Karens think about it
May 30, 2020
André L. Brock, associate professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication, was quoted in the article "How Karen Became a Meme, and What Real-life Karens Think about It" on CNN.com May 30, 2020. His scholarship includes published articles on racial representations in videogames, black women and weblogs, whiteness, blackness, and digital technoculture, as well as groundbreaking research on Black Twitter.
"It's always about the gaze," Brock explained. "And the desire to control what's in the gaze."
In other words? It's about a desire by some white women to exert control over black folks -- just as it was during slave times, just as it was in 1992 and just as it persists today, he said.
Names like Karen, or Becky? It's an act of resistance by Black folks, Brock said. It puts a name to the behavior and acts as a way to gain solidarity over an injustice, maybe laugh about it and go about your day.
Published in: CNN.com
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These Volunteers Are Filling in Missing Pieces of the World Map, and Helping Humanity at the Same Time
May 26, 2020
Mariel Borowitz, assistant professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, was quoted in the article "These volunteers are filling in missing pieces of the world map, and helping humanity at the same time" in the May 26, 2020 issue of Popular Science. The article highlights a Wikimedia of cartography that is pulling data from satellites to calculate snow depths for skiers, assist emergency responders, and more.
Excerpt:
Borowitz has questions, though, about how privacy protections will evolve. “I can imagine when you have ubiquitous data, your ability to track individuals or specific individual movements increases,” she says. The rub for watching the whole world change is that you are part of that world.
Published in: Popular Science
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COVID-19 makes ‘Think Globally, Act Locally’ more than a check-box exercise
May 24, 2020
Anna Stenport, Chair and Professor of the School of Modern Languages and co-Director of the Atlanta Global Studies Center, and Sebnem Ozkan, Associate Director of the Atlanta Global Studies Center, were featured in the Saporta Report for their article "COVID-19 makes ‘Think Globally, Act Locally’ more than a check-box exercise."
Excerpt:
"Now is the time for universities to renew their commitments to preparing global citizens and serving the global public good. The pandemic has made the old opposition between local and global obsolete. This heightens the importance of global learning as a core mission of higher education. This is especially true in metro Atlanta, known for its international connectivity and strength of globally oriented business and residents."
"Arguing for a more ambitious global agenda and connectivity might sound counterintuitive given the current situation – a time when social distancing is prescribed as the key to containing the virus. We contend that reinvigorating academia’s commitment to relating to the world beyond its diminishing borders cannot be more urgent. A focus on sustainable development – cultural, economic, environmental, and equitable – should undergird that commitment."
Published in: Saporta Report
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Statement from Ernest J. Moniz and Sam Nunn on U.S. Withdrawal from the Open Skies Treaty
May 22, 2020
Former Senator Sam Nunn, a distinguished professor of the practice and NTI founder and co-chair, and Ernest Montiz, a co-chair and CEO of NTI, have written a statement on U.S. Withdrawal from the Open Skies Treaty.
Find Senator Nunn and Montiz' statement on the NTI website.
Published in: NTI
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Next jobs report will come in 'well above 15%': Former Atlanta Federal Reserve president
May 21, 2020
Dennis Lockhart, a distinguished professor of the practice in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, was interviewed in "Next jobs report will come in 'well above 15%': Former Atlanta Federal Reserve president" by Fox Business.
Find the interview on Fox Business.
Published in: Fox Business
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Lessons from 1918: Old Pandemic is a Murky Guide for Sports
May 21, 2020
Johnny Smith, asssociate professor in the School of History and Sociology, was quoted in the article "Lessons from 1918: Old Pandemic is a Murky Guide for Sports" on May 21, 2020 from the Associated Press.
Smith, whose book War Fever: Boston, Baseball, and America in the Shadow of the Great War, written with Randy Roberts of Purdue University, has become especially relevant in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, spoke to how sports fans could approach the idea of large crowds at games and whether there were parallels to the 1918 influenza pandemic.
Excerpt:
“I think a lot of people will hesitate to attend sporting events as spectators until there is a proven vaccine,” Georgia Tech professor of sports history Johnny Smith said.
“I think there are parallels in what we can learn from 1918 in terms of how we respond to a pandemic,” Smith added. “The cities that were hesitant and didn’t impose closure orders as quickly had far more fatalities. I think the lesson we can draw in general from 1918 about how to respond to a pandemic is that closure orders and social distancing is effective.”
Published in: Associated Press
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6 Years After ATV Accident, Georgia Tech's Jaylend Ratliffe Nears the Finish Line
May 20, 2020
Joycelyn Wilson, assistant professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication (LMC), and LMC student Jaylend Ratliffe were featured and quoted in the article "6 years after ATV accident, Georgia Tech’s Jaylend Ratliffe nears the finish line," on May 20, 2020 in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Ratliffe, who was committed to play quarterback at Georgia Tech before an ATV accident ended his athletic career, nonetheless enrolled at the school and is set to graduate this summer with his degree from LMC. Wilson, who has taught Ratliffe, spoke to his academic dedication.
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Ratliffe continues to wrestle with his sense of self, but he is also on the precipice of completing his degree. If all goes as planned, he’ll finish his coursework at the end of July and take the first steps of his work career.
“I think that this is one story of a young man who came to one of the top engineering schools in the world and made it happen for himself,” said Joycelyn Wilson, an assistant professor whose Science, Race and Technology class Ratliffe took in the spring of 2019. “And he didn’t make it happen on the football field. He made it happen in the classroom.”
Published in: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Review: 3 Lives, 1 Story
May 17, 2020
War Fever: Boston, Baseball, and America in the Shadow of the Great War, a book by Johnny Smith, associate professor in the School of History and Sociology, and Randy Roberts of Purdue University was reviewed on May 17, 2020 in the Lincoln Journal Star.
Smith and Roberts' book has become particularly relevant as the professional sports world confronts the COVID-19 pandemic, and reviewer J. Kemper Campbell looks to the volume both as a record of a time past and a display of how a country can react in the face of multiple crises.
Excerpt:
Individuals who feel our country will be unable to conquer both the coronavirus and the economic crisis it has engendered should take heart from the tumultuous year which occurred over a century ago. The book demonstrates that our fellow citizens are capable of both walking and chewing gum at the same time and could probably learn to simultaneously crochet a doily if necessary.
By emphasizing the personalities of the book’s three protagonists, the authors have succeeded in adding a human element to their compelling narrative. Their book should make interested readers’ time pass pleasantly as our own pandemic grinds to its inevitable conclusion.
Published in: Lincoln Journal Star
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Former Atlanta Fed President on COVID-19: China, Migration and the Shape of Recovery
May 15, 2020
Dennis Lockhart, a distinguished professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, was cited in "Former Atlanta Fed President on COVID-19: China, Migration and the Shape of Recovery" by Global Atlanta. The article was based on Lockhart's presentation at the World Affairs Council.
Read an excerpt:
“The readiness of our health care system, the resilience or the robustness of our public health system, simply hasn’t stood up to the challenge we have faced in the last few weeks, and that is reflected in the numbers at least measured by infected people and deaths on a global basis. The U.S. appears to be faring worse than lots of other places that have a different system.”
Find the article on the Global Atlanta website.
Published in: Global Atlanta
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Former Atlanta Fed President on COVID-19: China, Migration and the Shape of Recovery
May 15, 2020
Dennis Lockhart, Professor of the Practice in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, was mentioned in "Former Atlanta Fed President on COVID-19: China, Migration and the Shape of Recovery," published May 15, 2020 in Global Atlanta.
Lockhart, the former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, offered his thoughts in a May 8 videoconference about the United States' stance towards China and its potential role in the global recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Excerpt:
Speaking virtually May 8 on “The Future of a Pandemic Economy” with World Affairs Council of Atlanta President Charles Shapiro, Mr. Lockhart theorized that cooperating with China, rather painting it as a “bad guy,” might be the better course in the short term.
“I don’t think it’s necessarily in our interests to be raising tensions with China, perhaps scapegoating China about their intentions during this pandemic, given the fact that we may very well need China in a very important way: and that is in the manufacturing of vaccines when that comes about.”
Published in: Global Atlanta
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Atlanta’s Car Economy, Stalled by Coronavirus, Tries to Shift Gears
May 15, 2020
Patrick McCarthy, professor in the School of Economics, was quoted in the article "Atlanta’s Car Economy, Stalled by Coronavirus, Tries to Shift Gears," May 15, 2020 in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
The article explored the myriad ways that the COVID-19 pandemic, which has stunted travel due to shelter-in-place orders, has affected businesses that deal directly or indirectly with car-based travel. McCarthy spoke to the potential implications of the shutdown and what businesses could be hit hardest.
Excerpt:
Things are slowly starting to improve, according to local business owners interviewed by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, but the prospect of a long-term economic downturn has some experts predicting the car industry will look much different once the pandemic is over.
“The firms that are going to suffer the most are the ones that were on the edge at the beginning,” said Patrick McCarthy, a Georgia Tech professor who specializes in transportation economics. “Those firms are going to have a lot of trouble coming back.”
Published in: Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Here's What Sports Looked Like During the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic
May 15, 2020
Johnny Smith, associate professor in the School of History and Sociology, was mentioned in the article "Here's What Sports Looked Like During the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic" on May 15, 2020 on Yahoo! Sports.
Smith, along with co-author Randy Roberts of Purdue University, recently published the book War Fever: Boston, Baseball and America in the Shadow of the Great War, which has become particularly relevant as sports leagues decide how to resume operations in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Excerpt:
But that game helped spread a new strain of the virus and caused a second wave of the influenza in the United States. In August, soldiers and sailors returned home from World War I and docked in Boston. Johnny Smith, a sports history professor at Georgia Tech and co-author of the new book, “War Fever: Boston, Baseball, and America in the Shadow of the Great War, told Forbes:
“And it’s during this period when the Red Sox and Cubs are playing the World Series that these social gatherings – three games at Fenway Park, a draft registration drive, a Liberty Loan parade – all of those events and the regular interactions that people had on streetcars and in saloons and so on helped spread the virus,” Smith continued. “And Boston becomes really the epicenter of the outbreak in September of 1918.”
The 1919 MLB season started one week later than it had the year before.
Published in: Yahoo! News
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Buy America Order Could Worsen Medical Supply Shortages, Economists Say
May 12, 2020
Christine Ries, professor in the School of Economics, was quoted in the segment "Buy America Order Could Worsen Medical Supply Shortages, Economists Say," in Marketplace on May 12, 2020.
A "Buy America" order from the federal government could result in shortage of certain medical goods, some economists fear, as well as raise prices. However, there are some in the field, including Ries, who see a way to make the order feasible and productive.
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But other economists, like Christine Ries, professor of economics at the Georgia Institute of Technology, would be OK with a Buy America order if it included price controls in exchange for subsidies or tax breaks.
“The company would have to certify that yes, this was Buy American and yes they were keeping the price at the same level as when China was supplying,” Ries said.
Published in: Marketplace
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University Professors Are Not Idle When Outside Of The Classroom - Especially In The Coronavirus Era
May 6, 2020
Marilyn Brown, Regents' and Brook Byers Professor in the School of Public Policy, contributed a section in "University Professors Are Not Idle When Outside Of The Classroom – Especially In The Coronavirus Era" on May 6, 2020 in Forbes.
In the article, written by Marshall Shepherd of the University of Georgia, a selection of prominent university professors offered their take on the role of higher education in the midst of a pandemic. Brown spoke to the importance of the innovation that the university setting can inspire.
Excerpt:
Dr. Marilyn A. Brown, Regents' and Brook Byers Professor of Sustainable Systems. School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology: Solving the crises we face as a nation - the Covid pandemic, global climate change, affordable housing, the opiod epidemic, and more - all require a strong science and education system. This is a time to strengthen our universities, not shrink them. We need to innovate our way out of these problems, drawing solutions from biology and chemistry, as well as administrative, economic, and policy sciences. Universities are the crucible of such solutions.
Published in: Forbes
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How 'Karen' Became a Coronavirus Villain
May 6, 2020
André Brock, associate professor in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication, was quoted in the article "How 'Karen' Became a Coronavirus Villain" on May 6, 2020 in The Atlantic.
The article dissects the meaning and evolution of the label and meme of "Karens," which has taken on a new twist since the coronavirus pandemic became the dominant news story of the day. Brock, who has extensively studied communities and memes on Twitter, spoke to the current relevance and purpose of the meme.
Excerpt:
André Brock, an associate professor at Georgia Tech who has studied Black Twitter, says Karen memes are freshly resonant now because they allow people of color the chance to indulge in dark comedy about the way the pandemic is disproportionately affecting them. In reference to another varietal of Karen, the type of suburban liberal who uses the Nextdoor app and a Ring security camera to surveil her neighbors and monitor their behavior, he called it “deeply ironic” that white women isolating in single-family homes—whose lifestyle puts them at low risk of exposure to the virus—have been getting militant about teenagers wearing face masks or judgmental about city dwellers’ inability to execute perfect social distancing.
Published in: The Atlantic
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