Apr 30
The May newsletter for Governance is now available here. The newsletter profiles (among other things) an article by Peter Aucoin on the “new political governance” which has already been discussed in the Toronto Star and Canberra Times.
Cornell University Press has produced a short YouTube video about America’s First Great Depression:
I gave a talk on April 10 at the Central Compilation and Translation Bureau in Beijing, along with John McMillan, Information Commissioner of Australia. The talk was organized by the Bureau in partnership with the Carter Center in Atlanta.
Apr 5
The April 1 issue of Library Journal provides a review of America’s First Great Depression. “This timely book will be of great use not just to students of economic history but also to readers who wish to find historical precedent for today’s uncertain, turbulent times.” Read the review.
I’ll be giving a public lecture in Beijing on April 8 with John McMillan, Information Commissioner of Australia. The lecture is organized by Tsinghua University Law School in conjunction with the Carter Center. We’ll also participate in an all-day forum at the law school on April 9.
The April newsletter for Governance is now posted. Features open access to commentaries on Belgium’s 600-day period without a new government; access to a talk by Brigid Laffan on the Eurozone crisis; and other material.
History News Network has posted a review of America’s First Great Depression, written by Jim Cullen, HNN book review editor. Read the review.
The journal International Affairs has published a review of The Logic of Discipline. The book “comes to us in the long tradition of Polanyian political economy, analysing the embeddedness of markets in their social and political context.” Access the review.
Today’s Toronto Globe and Mail includes an editorial commenting on my article about WikiLeaks in the current issue of International Review of Administrative Sciences. Says the G&M: “WikiLeaks did not transform the political world.” Also a story in the Times of India. There is also a March 28 interview about the article on the Pacific Standard website.
Brooke Gladstone of NPR’s On the Media spoke at the Rappaport Center about her book, The Influencing Machine, and the role of media in politics. The event was co-sponsored with Suffolk Law’s Media Law Group. Photo left to right: Greg Massing, the Center’s Executive Director; Austra Zubkovs, the Center’s communications coordinator; Brooke Gladstone; and Sarah Nashat of the Media Law Group.
Alasdair S. Roberts 
