Experts in the News

Baker Institute faculty scholar Dan Wallach's biggest concern was that a nation-state actor like Russia would find a way to tamper with voter registration databases, leading to long lines at the polls that discourage people from voting. "If someone were to damage the voter registration database selectively, like only in neighborhoods that vote one way but not in neighborhoods that vote another way, there could be a partisan outcome from that tampering."

Should Saudi Arabia join a few other big oil producers in a streamlined cartel? Energy fellow Jim Krane's analyzed this question.

Kelsey Norman, director of the Women's Rights, Human Rights and Refugees Program, was interviewed about the impact of the Trump administration's decision to lower the number of refugees allowed into the United States.

Fellow Quianta Moore discussed her recent survey on the attitudes and experiences of residents of Houston's Third Ward.

Fellow Jim Krane’s recent book, “Energy Kingdoms,” won the Book Award 2019 prize at the Middle East Studies Association conference last week in New Orleans. Twenty-two books were submitted for consideration in the biannual contest, which is sponsored by the Association for Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Studies. In the book, Krane explained the important roles of oil in the domestic economies and internal politics of the Persian Gulf states, and the hard choices that will have to be made as governments try to wean their citizens from a troubling reliance on it.