For me everything's political
I always tell my students that I always tell them when they're kind of coming in my freshman class they were governed through institutions
so you might as well find out how that happens and
How you have the ability to change and modify that kind of governance I understand that there is
Sometimes a reluctance to embrace change or to embrace diversity
But I think we need to understand that as a political scientist mentor who I knew once said
Things must change if they are to remain the same we have to understand change
In part so we can retain the fundamental values that we know to be important political science is happily a very pluralistic
discipline and
One of the pieces of good news about that is the whole discipline doesn't head to any one place at the same time
I heard a statistic recently that
50% of political science PhD students come from a different undergraduate discipline
So we are pulling more and more diverse voices into the field not just among those of us who are already professors
But the group of people that are going to be professors in the future the trend in my field that I find the most
interesting is the increasing interaction between political scientists and other fields such as
Lawyers in terms of election law because political science is critical to how election laws are interpreted
But also economists as well because people see politics and economic growth as being increasingly intertwined well
And also similarly related to national security issues
I think the power is a new subject
audience our willingness titude to make a difference in the world and save the world probably the future of
International Relations future of the world will be based on how soon this how fast we will
Leave by the rules of international law the flood of material that appears
On the Internet really increases the need for good filters and good certification
Mechanisms that's part of why?
Journals and book publishers remain so important my hope for the future is that our research will become even more and more relevant and part
of the public discourse
There's no one more qualified to talk about current events in some ways and the very important changes that we see
Around us then political scientists
