Georgetown Public Policy Review
Policy Shaping Our Future
By Jacob Patterson-Stein Making predictions can be risky. Models fail, experts disagree, and externalities abound. There were people who claimed unrest in Tunisia would have minimal impact in the wider region. How many hats have been eaten in the last year? That said, if terrorism was the defining international issue of the first decade of […]
by Ambika Sharma The exaggerated media coverage in the West makes one readily believe that violence and low economic status are correlated. Images of poverty stricken children in slums coupled with a fairly extensive coverage of civil wars, leaves an impression that low economic status and violence go hand-in-hand. Nevertheless, there is some truth to […]