Madagascar Coup: Why Turning a Blind Eye to an Unpopular President Weakens Regional Bodies
In this piece for The Conversation, Salah Ben Hammou and coauthor Jonathan Powell analyze Madagascar’s recent coup…
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How Militarization Has Undermined Mexico’s Armed Forces
As Mexico’s military took on policing roles, corruption and lost impartiality followed. A new brief explores how…
October 23, 2025 
Shell Distinguished Lecture Series: Jack Lew on the US Budget, Debt, and Policies Shaping the Future October 21, 2025
The Baker Institute for Public Policy welcomed the Honorable Jack Lew, former U.S. Treasury secretary and ambassador to…
How Investments Can Boost ERCOT Reliability and Cut Emissions
After high-profile outages in 2021, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) has strengthened grid reliability by…
October 21, 2025 
Texas Policy Forum October 20, 2025
Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy invited Texas state legislators and their staff members to a special…
Edward P. Djerejian Center for the Middle East | Women’s Rights, Human Rights, and Refugees | Report
Opening Doors, Hardening Borders: Inside Biden’s Strategy on Mixed Migration and the Lessons Learned for Europe In a report for the Mixed Migration Centre, Kelsey Norman and Ana Martín Gil analyze the Biden administration’s migration…
October 20, 2025 
Nonresident Fellow
Maple Goh, MBChB, MPH is a global health physician, a graduate of Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (MPH, Global…
Advancing Women’s Rights Amid US Aid Reductions
U.S. aid cuts are shuttering vital women’s programs across MENA. A new brief by Merissa Khurma for the Edward P. Djerejian…
October 17, 2025 
Mounting Shutdown Costs and a Knife’s Edge Economy
John W. Diamond analyzes the mounting costs of the government shutdown and how the U.S. economy is faring amid a tug-of-war…
October 17, 2025 
Mexico Country Outlook 2026 October 16, 2025
Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy presented the seventh annual Mexico Country Outlook. This year’s…