Week in Review – Vol. 1 No. 13

Congressional Reform

This week in the Congressional Reform series, Representative Tom Graves shares his personal experience serving in Congress. Congressman Graves represented Georgia for five terms and served as Vice Chairman of the House Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress.

Rights & Liberties

Sunwater scholar Joseph Kochanek covers Federalist 13 where Hamilton warned against the dangers of the USA splitting up into smaller groupings of states, whether two, three, or some other number. The Federalist Papers Podcast discusses the founders thinking and how their vision and debates relate to the present day.

Kochanek gave a presentation at the 53^rd annual Northeastern Political Science Association conference on 21st century harms.

Property, Markets, Trade

Sunwater Institute’s scholar, Ani Harutyunyan, co-authored an article published in Springer: The European Union as an International Donor: Perceptions from Latin America and the Caribbean. The analysis finds that Nordic countries outrank the EU in terms of both perceived influence and helpfulness in Latin America and the Caribbean.