Student Spotlight: Rachelly Buzzi Named as a 2022 Pickering Fellow
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O'Keefe Quoted in BBC Article on the Need for New Spacesuits
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Jacobson Speaks to CBS News, DW, WAER about the Afghanistan Withdrawal
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Jacobson Piece on Humanitarian Crisis in Afghanistan Published in TIME
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Jacobson reflects on 9/11 on Profiles in Public Service podcast, ABC
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Jacobson speaks with HuffPost, VOA, Washington Post about evacuations in Afghanistan
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Jacobson discusses crisis at Kabul airport with MSNBC, CBS News, Bloomberg
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Jay Golden Named Inaugural Pontarelli Professor
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Jacobson discusses US security advisor Jake Sullivan on NewsNation
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Jacobson talks to CBS News, Washington Post about Afghanistan withdrawal
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Jacobson discusses US withdrawal from Afghanistan in The Conversation
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Jacobson discusses US troop withdrawal, Afghanistan on CBS, MSNBC, VOA
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Grads set to make the world greater, better and more beautiful
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Jacobson discusses the removal of US troops from Afghanistan on MSNBC
"I just think that he [Biden] has been given, by his team, a false binary choice: either we stay indefinitely with a massive commitment, or we leave," says Mark Jacobson, assistant dean for Washington Programs who served in Afghanistan with both the Army and Navy reserves. "And there's a lot of areas in between, a lot of work we can do that is beyond that binary choice."
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Jacobson comments on Trump's changes at the Pentagon in Politico
"It's likely that most are rolled back by Biden administration," says Mark Jacobson, assistant dean of Washington programs, about Trump's changes at the Pentagon. "But the point is all of these cost money, waste time and hamper the ability of the national security establishment to focus on the real threats the United States faces," he adds.
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Alumna Kristen Patel named Gregg Professor of Practice at Maxwell
Kristen Patel will teach undergraduate courses in policy studies and graduate courses in public administration and international affairs.
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Jacobson talks to Politico, Washington Post about Biden's Cabinet picks
Mark Jacobson, assistant dean of Washington programs says that "the [John] Kerry pick [as Biden's special presidential envoy for climate] is really incredible from a structural standpoint." His selection, Jacobson says, is "an admission that our mid-20th century national security structures were not designed to deal with some of the more holistic and potentially existential threats, in this case, climate change."
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Jacobson weighs in on acting Secretary of Defense Miller in Politico
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Jacobson weighs in on the firing of Defense Secretary Mark Esper in Foreign Policy
Mark Jacobson, assistant dean for Washington programs at Maxwell School, commented on the firing of Defense Secretary Esper by Donald Trump. He said "Our enemies are going to take note of that, they know that now is a particularly vulnerable time"
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Jacobson comments on US defense secretary's travel in Politico
"The further away, the less likelihood of being fired," says Assistant Dean Mark Jacobson of U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper's frequent travel amid persistent rumors that he will either quit or be fired after the election.
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