Richard Katula

The race for the Repub­lican pres­i­den­tial nom­i­na­tion is heating up and com­mu­ni­ca­tion style will play no small part in deciding a winner. We asked Richard Katula, pro­fessor of com­mu­ni­ca­tion studies and expert in polit­ical rhetoric, to explain why com­mu­ni­ca­tion is so impor­tant and ana­lyze the com­mu­ni­ca­tion skills of the 2012 GOP pres­i­den­tial candidates.

Amid the eco­nomic crisis plaguing Europe, the prime min­is­ters of Greece (George Papan­dreou) and Italy (Silvio Berlus­coni) resigned last week. They have since been replaced with the appoint­ments of Lucas Papademos in Greece and Mario Monti in Italy — men with back­grounds in banking and eco­nomics. We asked North­eastern Uni­ver­sity com­mu­ni­ca­tions studies pro­fessor Richard Katula, an expert on Greek cul­ture and Euro­pean affairs, to ana­lyze the eco­nomic and polit­ical tur­moil in Greece and Italy and its impact on the Euro­pean Union.