Colin Kahl, former National Security Advisor to Vice President Joe Biden and Deputy Assistant to President Obama, spoke at the Sanford School Wednesday about his experience working in foreign policy and his expectations of the Trump administration.
During his visit, Kahl recorded an episode of Policy 360 with Sanford's Dean, Kelly Brownell.
Special thanks to Professor Peter Feaver and his Duke Program in American Grand Strategy, the Duke Department of Political Science, and the Triangle Institute for Security Studies for sponsoring Colin Kahl’s visit to Duke.
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Do children from low-income background benefit from living in economically mixed communities? Professor Candice Odgers, associate director of the Center for Child and Family Policy, says that growing up in the shadow of wealth may have a surprising effect on a child's development.
Odgers talks with Sanford's Dean, Kelly Brownell.
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Can it be physically damaging to be African American? Assistant Professor Jay Pearson says there's chromosomal evidence that our bodies react to a combination of ethnicity stress and socioeconomic status. There are important resources associated with those identities that can enhance health, but there are also important risks associated with those identities that can compromise health.
Pearson talks with Sanford's Dean, Kelly Brownell.
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What happens when there are very high hopes for a particular policy idea, and then researchers conclude the results are not as promising as they once seemed? Are there lessons to be learned from this?
A widely hailed initiative that combines franchising business models and telemedicine to deliver better quality health care in rural India has failed to improve care for childhood diarrhea and pneumonia, found a large-scale study by Assistant Professor Manoj Mohanan and researchers at Stanford and University College London.
Manoj Mohanan is an assistant professor at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke. He’s also appointed in Economics at Duke and as an assistant research professor in the Duke Global Health Institute.
Mohanan talks with Sanford's Dean, Kelly Brownell.
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Is the United States a country in inevitable decline, or are we a country in renewal? Should our foreign policy commitments include indefinite deployments of United States troops, or should we rely on our allies throughout the world to help maintain our interests? These are the kinds of questions the next administration will have to face, Peter Feaver says.
Peter Feaver is Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at Duke. He also serves as Director of the Duke Program in American Grand Strategy. He served in the White House during two administrations.
Feaver talks with Sanford's Dean, Kelly Brownell.