News organizations often turn to Georgetown faculty members for insightful, expert commentary on current events. From opinions on unfolding events to providing in-depth analysis, Georgetown scholars and researchers appear daily in local, national and international news reports.
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Georgetown University Faculty Experts Guide
- December 3, 2010
"Georgetown President DeGioia speaks out in support of Senator Richard Durbin's (D-IL, SFS'66, GULC'69) DREAM Act. The proposed legislation would create a path to legal status and eventual legal immigrant status for young people who came to the United States before age 16 without documentation and who have met many other conditions, including two years of post-secondary education or military service."
John J. DeGioia, president of Georgetown University, on the DREAM Act.
Source: WAMU-FM
- December 2, 2010
"The key is the lead. Explain what the point is up front and say something colorful, and save the less important stuff for later. But you can get across a moral idea, you can get across a strategic idea, by telling a story."
Mark Lagon, visiting professor in the Master of Science in Foreign Service program, on the process of writing a diplomatic cable.
Source: NPR
- December 2, 2010
“The differences lie in how the family hierarchy works, and who decides how much information on prognosis or end-of-life should or should not be given to the family members or the dying child.”
Aziza T. Shad, director of the Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Blood and Marrow Transplantation at GUMC, on considering culture when providing pediatric cancer care.
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Source: NCI Bulletin
- December 1, 2010
“The whole thing is an ugly joke. It is a travesty of what elections are supposed to be. There was no resemblance of free and fair elections.”
Samer Shehata, assistant professor of Arabic politics at the School of Foreign Service, after the first round of the Egypt’s parliamentary elections delivered a victory to President Hosni Mubarak's ruling National Democratic Party.
Source: Al Masry Al Youm
- November 28, 2010
"Unfortunately, that is (a) certainty of Egyptian elections — death and violence and blood."
Samer Shehata, assistant professor in the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, on the violence surrounding Egyptian elections.
Source: The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
- November 26, 2010
"People, especially those at lower levels of [the] socio-economic ladder, look to MPs for jobs, help with housing and medical services and help with government bureaucracy."
Samer Shehata, assistant professor in the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, on the Egyptian elections and what is expected from Members of Parliament.
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Source: The Huffington Post
- November 26, 2010
“It’s not so much that they need the I.M.F.’s money, but that they need the I.M.F.’s mechanism for being able to monitor policy reforms."
James Raymond Vreeland, associate professor of international relations, on Ireland's need for the International Monetary Fund to intervene in the country's financial crisis.
Source: The New York Times
- November 24, 2010
“I think this aggressive and irresponsible behaviour is related to crises of food security, because they’re afraid of an internal coup. It’s about redirecting the attention of the military away from themselves, and having those guns pointed toward the South.”
Andrew Natsios, distinguished professor in the practice of diplomacy, on possible motives of the attack by North Korea.
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Source: The Star (Toronto, Canada)
- November 23, 2010
"North Korea was described to me as the land of lousy options. You're never choosing between good and bad options. You're choosing between bad, worse and the worst," he said."
Victor Cha, director of Asian studies and the D.S. Song-Korea Foundation Chair in Asian Studies and Government, on how the situation in North Korea hasn't changed since he was in the Bush administration.
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Source: Reuters (UK)
- November 23, 2010
"I think the United States and South Korea, when you talk about any potential military response, this is the most militarized border in the entire world. And both militaries – all three militaries are on a hair-trigger response. So, any military reaction, you have to be concerned about the potential for escalation."
Victor Cha, director of Asian studies and the D.S. Song-Korea Foundation Chair in Asian Studies and Government, on the latest provocation by North Korea.
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Source: PBS Newshour
- November 23, 2010
"We seem to react to each previous incident by grafting on more security. That's been a pattern since 9/11. With this particular iteration, for some Americans it's just become a question of, Where does it end?"
Bruce Hoffman, professor of security studies, on airport security and the new full-body scanners.
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Source: Time
- November 21, 2010
"One motive might be that North Korea likes to use provocation as a way to coerce the United States and the world into negotiations and even into giving things that they want, including food, fuel and recognition by the outside world."
Victor Cha, director of Asian studies and the D.S. Song-Korea Foundation Chair in Asian Studies and Government, on North Korea's recent nuclear progress.
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Source: ABC News
- November 16, 2010
"[North Korea] is not a system that produces good leaders. There are lots of vested interest among the ruling elite and anyone trying to change that would be in big trouble."
Victor Cha, director of Asian studies and the D.S. Song-Korea Foundation Chair in Asian Studies and Government, on why a new leader is not likely to change the situation in North Korea.
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Source: USA Today
- November 14, 2010
"[Gameela Ismail] is a vocal critic of the regime, but she is not like the Muslim Brotherhood."
Samer Shehata, assistant professor in the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, comparing Gameela Ismail's independent candidacy for parliament in Egypt to the mission of the country's largest opposition party.
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Source: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
- November 11, 2010
"U.S.-India, like President [Obama] said, will be the most important partnership."
John J. DeGioia, President of Georgetown University, in a speech to the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry higher-education summit in New Delhi.
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Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education