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Rice expert sees quake as opportunity to rebuild Haiti
Mark Jones, chair of the political science department at Rice University, is a specialist in Caribbean and Latin American politics. He discussed the history of Haiti and its prospects in light of the recent devastation with Chronicle reporter Mike Tolson.
El-Gamal, Jaffe urge economic reforms to avoid future catastrophic shocks to system
The United States and other major economies have not taken adequate measures to address the underlying forces driving the 2007-2008 financial and oil crises, potentially condemning the global economy to future shocks of more catastrophic proportions. That is the conclusion of authors Mahmoud El-Gamal and Amy Myers Jaffe in their new book, "Oil, Dollars, Debt and Crises: The Global Curse of Black Gold."
NSF grant allows Rice political scientist to pursue study of foreign-policy change after political transitions
Brett Ashley Leeds, the Albert Thomas Associate Professor of Political Science, received a National Science Foundation grant to study the often complex relationship between a nation's political change and its foreign policy. The goal, Leeds said, is to "look more systematically at instances in which (political transition) does and does not produce change in foreign policy."