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READ IN UVA TODAY Jan 04, 2020 The High Costs of a Precipitous US Withdrawal from Afghanistan National Security Batten’s Phil Potter and co-authors discuss how America’s war in Afghanistan — the longest conflict in U.S. history — has morphed from a counterterrorism mission into something more ambitious but less well defined and, ultimately, less successful. READ IN THE HILL Dec 20, 2019 The WTO might return to diplomatic settlements for trade disputes. Here’s why. National Security International and Global Affairs The global trade appeals system has stalled. Batten's Philip Potter and the University of Pennsylvania's Julia Gray examine if it ever really worked. Read in The Washington Post Nov 07, 2019 Q&A: How Philip Potter Navigates 21st-Century National Security Policy National Security Since its inception in 2018, the National Security Policy Center at the University of Virginia’s Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy has made something of a name for itself. READ IN UVA TODAY Oct 21, 2019 Batten's National Security Policy Center Partners Across Grounds on Graduate Course to Advance Public Interest Technology National Security A multidisciplinary team of public policy, computer science, and law faculty earned a national grant to establish a course aimed at teaching graduate students to examine the complex ethical, legal, and policy implications of new technologies. Learn more Feb 18, 2019 Hacking for Defense at the Batten School National Security On the last day of fall classes, while other students prepared for the onslaught of exams, seven student teams from the Batten School traveled to the Pentagon to present their semester-long projects to officials from the Department of Defense (DoD). Learn more Nov 02, 2018 Former Under Secretary at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Joins the Batten School’s National Security Policy Center National Security The Batten School and UVA’s Applied Research Institute announced that the Honorable George W. Foresman will join the Batten School’s National Security Policy Center (NSPC) as a senior advisor. In this new role, Foresman will support U.S. national security leadership and engagement activities. Foresman’s hiring is part of larger partnership between the Batten School and ARI to elevate UVA as a leader in national security education, research, and outreach. Learn more Sep 17, 2015 The Retailing of American Medicine Health Policy Democracy American medical care may be helpful much of the time, but rarely is it timely or convenient. Read in The Hill Jul 06, 2015 Engelhard: Time for an All-Payer Health System? Health Policy Domestic Policy & Politics Economists tell us that setting the price of a good or service depends on market forces that balance supply and demand in order to optimize output with minimal waste. Read in The Hill Jun 28, 2015 Conservatives worry that Obamacare is a ‘super-statute.’ It isn’t quite one yet. Health Policy Domestic Policy & Politics Obamacare is a limited law, full of compromises that were necessary to secure its enactment. Read in The Washington Post May 07, 2015 Randall Lutter Awarded Grant to Study Cognitive Benefits of Breastfeeding Health Policy Domestic Policy & Politics Batten School Senior Lecturer Randall Lutter was recently awarded a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to study the economic value of improvements in cognitive performance attributable to breastfeeding. Learn more Pagination Previous page ‹ Previous Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Current page 5 Stay Up To Date with the Latest Batten News and Events Subscribe
Jan 17, 2020 Sen. Tim Kaine Discusses War Powers Legislation With UVA Students National Security Virginia’s junior senator, who introduced legislation limiting presidential war powers as tensions escalated in the Middle East, said he came to the Batten School to hear from the one group likely to be most affected by war: young people. READ IN UVA TODAY
Jan 04, 2020 The High Costs of a Precipitous US Withdrawal from Afghanistan National Security Batten’s Phil Potter and co-authors discuss how America’s war in Afghanistan — the longest conflict in U.S. history — has morphed from a counterterrorism mission into something more ambitious but less well defined and, ultimately, less successful. READ IN THE HILL
Dec 20, 2019 The WTO might return to diplomatic settlements for trade disputes. Here’s why. National Security International and Global Affairs The global trade appeals system has stalled. Batten's Philip Potter and the University of Pennsylvania's Julia Gray examine if it ever really worked. Read in The Washington Post
Nov 07, 2019 Q&A: How Philip Potter Navigates 21st-Century National Security Policy National Security Since its inception in 2018, the National Security Policy Center at the University of Virginia’s Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy has made something of a name for itself. READ IN UVA TODAY
Oct 21, 2019 Batten's National Security Policy Center Partners Across Grounds on Graduate Course to Advance Public Interest Technology National Security A multidisciplinary team of public policy, computer science, and law faculty earned a national grant to establish a course aimed at teaching graduate students to examine the complex ethical, legal, and policy implications of new technologies. Learn more
Feb 18, 2019 Hacking for Defense at the Batten School National Security On the last day of fall classes, while other students prepared for the onslaught of exams, seven student teams from the Batten School traveled to the Pentagon to present their semester-long projects to officials from the Department of Defense (DoD). Learn more
Nov 02, 2018 Former Under Secretary at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Joins the Batten School’s National Security Policy Center National Security The Batten School and UVA’s Applied Research Institute announced that the Honorable George W. Foresman will join the Batten School’s National Security Policy Center (NSPC) as a senior advisor. In this new role, Foresman will support U.S. national security leadership and engagement activities. Foresman’s hiring is part of larger partnership between the Batten School and ARI to elevate UVA as a leader in national security education, research, and outreach. Learn more
Sep 17, 2015 The Retailing of American Medicine Health Policy Democracy American medical care may be helpful much of the time, but rarely is it timely or convenient. Read in The Hill
Jul 06, 2015 Engelhard: Time for an All-Payer Health System? Health Policy Domestic Policy & Politics Economists tell us that setting the price of a good or service depends on market forces that balance supply and demand in order to optimize output with minimal waste. Read in The Hill
Jun 28, 2015 Conservatives worry that Obamacare is a ‘super-statute.’ It isn’t quite one yet. Health Policy Domestic Policy & Politics Obamacare is a limited law, full of compromises that were necessary to secure its enactment. Read in The Washington Post
May 07, 2015 Randall Lutter Awarded Grant to Study Cognitive Benefits of Breastfeeding Health Policy Domestic Policy & Politics Batten School Senior Lecturer Randall Lutter was recently awarded a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to study the economic value of improvements in cognitive performance attributable to breastfeeding. Learn more