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“There is no contest in the country that is more significant than control of the Texas House,” says political science fellow Mark Jones. Read why here and here.
“As Mexico dips into a recession, AMLO's nationalistic stance on energy issues could prevent a faster economic recovery,” postdoctoral fellow Adrian Duhalt tells the North American Congress on Latin …
Nov. 2, 2020, 3 p.m.
Steven Lewis, the C.V. Starr Transnational China Fellow, and Aynne Kokas, a nonresident scholar with the Baker Institute China Studies Program, examine the current state of diplomacy and soft power in the U.S. and China.
Nov. 4, 2020, 11 a.m.
Webinar — Binational Commons: Institutional Development and Governance on the U.S.-Mexico Border
Panelists discuss the recently published “Binational Commons: Institutional Development and Governance on the U.S.-Mexico Border” and assess the institutions that govern specific issues along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Nov. 5, 2020, 11 a.m.
Webinar — Vision or Mirage: Saudi Arabia at the Crossroads
David Rundell — one of America’s foremost experts on Saudi Arabia — analyzes the complex history, politics and culture of Saudi Arabia and discusses his recent book, “Vision or Mirage: Saudi Arabia at the Crossroads.”
Founded in 1993, Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy has established itself as one of the premier nonpartisan public policy think tanks in the country. The institute ranks 2nd among university-affiliated think tanks worldwide and 16th among U.S. think tanks, according to a 2019 study by the University of Pennsylvania's Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program. The survey again ranked the institute's Center for Energy Studies No. 1 among the world's energy- and resource policy think tanks.
