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Trump At Center Stage As Race For Virginia’s Governor’s Mansion Heats Up

“Typically, the New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial elections, which are the only two which happen the year following presidential elections, have been seen as a statement about the sitting president,” William Antholis, director of the Miller Center of Public Affairs, a nonpartisan affiliate of the University of Virginia, told Zenger. “What we are seeing is an attempt by McAuliffe making this about a past president.”

William Antholis

Q&A: Upcoming Event Addresses Major Challenges to Democracy

In the midst of a global pandemic, historic and controversial events related to race and inequality, divisive elections, and deepening polarization, it would be an understatement to say that democracy faces significant challenges. The inaugural UVA Democracy Biennial: Crises, Opportunities, Freedoms event, hosted by the University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs, the Karsh Institute of Democracy and the College of Arts & Sciences’ Democracy Initiative, will be held later this week to look at both the current state, as well as the future, of democracy.

William Antholis

Q&A: Upcoming Event Addresses Major Challenges to Democracy

Melody Barnes

War and Terrorism

Can the future of arms control be found in its past?

Now that the keystone of the arms control enterprise remains in place it is worth examining why so many arms control experts and advocates have been warning about “the end,” “the death” or the “deep crisis” of arms control. As one leading Russian scholar of arms control has argued, “legacy Cold War-era arms control is collapsing and an uncontrolled nuclear arms race is threatening to return.”

Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments

Politics Professor Emeritus leads prestigious four-part lecture series

When Brantly Womack, Professor Emeritus of Politics at the University of Virginia and Senior Faculty Fellow at the Miller Center, retired from his professorship at the University last May, there was a noticeable loss in the Politics department’s coverage of contemporary China and Chinese politics. No classes on Chinese politics are being offered this semester, and the Politics department has not yet instated a replacement for Womack as the department’s China expert. This was a catalyst for Womack's decision to host a four-part lecture series entitled "China and the Recentering of East Asia" through the University’s own East Asia Center, beginning Thursday and with three more planned through Oct. 7.

Brantly Womack

What the battle over redrawing state borders says about our politics

Today’s urban-rural divide is decades in the making, the result of New Deal infrastructure projects, interstate highways, and government programs that attracted jobs to metro areas in the Mountain West and South, according to Guian McKee, associate professor in Presidential Studies at the Miller Center at the University of Virginia.

Guian McKee