Brookings Mountain West
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Brookings Mountain West is a partnership between UNLV and the Washington, D.C.-based Brookings Institution. The purpose of Brookings Mountain West is to bring the Brookings tradition of high-quality, independent, and impactful research to the issues facing the dynamic and fast-growing Intermountain West region. Building upon work at Brookings and UNLV, our community engagement and research initiatives focus on helping metropolitan areas like Las Vegas grow in robust, inclusive, and sustainable ways. Brookings Mountain West provides a platform to bring ideas and expertise together to enhance public policy discussions at the local, state, and regional level.
Brookings Mountain West In the News
My wife, my son and I were sleeping at a Paris hotel early Thursday morning when my iPhone began to ping. About 10 texts came within minutes of President Donald Trump’s Wednesday night speech on the coronavirus. They all carried the same urgent message —Trump was going to shut down travel between the United States and Europe by midnight Friday. Our problem was immediate. We had return tickets home to Las Vegas for Sunday.
This year’s edition of the Believer Festival has been canceled.
The festival, produced by the Black Mountain Institute at UNLV, was scheduled to run April 29 to May 2.
"There are liabilities on both sides of the issue," said Cynthia Sherman, director of conferences and co-director of the Association of Writers & Writing Programs – the issue being whether or not to hold AWP's annual conference in San Antonio, March 4-7, even as the mayor declared a public health emergency after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention permitted an American evacuee from Wuhan to leave quarantine at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland; shortly afterward, they tested positive for the coronavirus.
Bernie Sanders has a commanding lead in California polls coming into Super Tuesday. But there still could be delegates available to other candidates in the Democratic presidential primary.
Brookings Mountain West Accomplishments
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In co-sponsorship with the Graduate College, Brookings Mountain West is pleased to offer a workshop with Brookings Senior Fellow, Dr. Vanda Felbab-Brown. Felbab-Brown’s research focuses on drugs and other illicit economies, terrorism, and conflict management. A graduate of MIT University (PhD in Political Science), Felbab-Brown served as an Assistant Professor in the Security Studies Program at...Date: April 20, 2020Location: University Gateway Building (GTW), GTW 268 & 269
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In its 19th year, the U.S. war in Afghanistan is the longest war in U.S. history. Both the Obama and Trump administrations repeatedly sought to bring U.S. troops home. Barring a precipitous Syria-like U.S. withdrawal before the U.S. presidential November 2020 elections, such an outcome appears increasingly unlikely. In the absence of an intra-Afghan-Taliban government, a precipitous U.S....Date: April 22, 2020Location: Greenspun Hall (GUA), First Floor Auditorium
