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Sex and gender analysis improves science and engineering
November 2019
The goal of sex and gender analysis is to promote rigorous, reproducible and responsible science.
The Failure of Europe's Mainstream Parties
October 2019
The failure of mainstream political-party competition fueled the rise of populism in Europe.
Stalin and the Fate of Europe: The Postwar Struggle for Sovereignty
October 2019
The Cold War division of Europe was not inevitable―the acclaimed author of Stalin’s Genocides shows how postwar Europeans fought to determine their own destinies.Was the division of Europe after...
The containment of the Islamic State: A realist case to engage a hybrid actor
July 2019
Next to military means, causing disruption and interdiction, Western and local powers also relied on policies of containment to halt the expansion of the Islamic State’s territorial strongholds....
Oregon’s Expansion of Prenatal Care Improved Utilization Among Immigrant Women
June 2019
Objectives To determine whether expanding Emergency Medicaid to cover prenatal care in Oregon affected maternal health outcomes for unauthorized immigrants.
African States Since Independence: Order, Development, and Democracy (Castle Lecture Series)
May 2019
Authors Christensen and Laitin argue that an interplay of geographic, historical, and demographic factors undergird sub‑Saharan states’ post‑independence struggles to eradicate poverty, establish...
Once, the ‘Judeo-Christian tradition’ united Americans. Now it divides them.
April 2019
Even as Notre Dame Cathedral was burning, pundits such as Ben Shapiro and Katie Hopkins began to mourn it as a “monument to Western civilization … built on the Judeo-Christian heritage” —...
Linking individuals across historical sources: A fully automated approach
April 2019
Linking individuals across historical datasets relies on information such as name and age that is both non-unique and prone to enumeration and transcription errors.
Repetition, Recurrence, Returns: How Cultural Renewal Works (Transforming Literary Studies)
April 2019
Repetition is constitutive of human life. Both the species and the individual develop through repetition.
A low-cost information nudge increases citizenship application rates among low-income immigrants
April 2019
We show that an information nudge increased the rate of American citizenship applications among low-income immigrants eligible for a federal fee waiver.
A Model of Safe Asset Determination
April 2019
What makes an asset a “safe” asset? We study a model where two countries each issue sovereign bonds to satisfy investors’ safe asset demands.
The Underwater Imagination: From Environment to Film Set, 1954–1956
April 2019
The 1940s and 1950s were a revolutionary era in both access to and imagination of the underwater environment in the most modernized nations of the globe.
The Baltic Crusades and ecological transformation: The zooarchaeology of conquest and cultural change in the Eastern Baltic in the second millennium AD
March 2019
From the end of the 12th century, crusading armies unleashed a relentless holy war against the indigenous pagan societies in the Eastern Baltic region. Native territories were reorganised as new...
Reactions to Terror Attacks: A Heuristic Model
March 2019
What are the signature features of the reactions of mass publics to terrorist attacks?
In Search of Democracy 4.0: Is Democracy as We Know It Destined to Die?
March 2019
There are plenty of indicators of doom: Donald Trump riding roughshod over U.S.
How Do Immigrants Respond to Discrimination? The Case of Germans in the US During World War I
March 2019
I study the effect of taste-based discrimination on the assimilation decisions of immigrant minorities.
The Papal Human Rights Discourse: The Difference Pope Francis Makes
February 2019
Religious actors and their political concepts are commonly assumed to be conservative, static, and aligned with the private contemplative world.
Sensory Reflections: Traces of Experience in Medieval Artifacts
January 2019
This volume draws on emerging scholarship at the intersection of two already vibrant fields: medieval material culture and medieval sensory experience.
Governance of the global commons: a question of supply and demand, the answer of polycentricism
December 2018
Edited by Samuel Cogolati and Jan WoutersGiven the new-found importance of the commons in current political discourse, it has become increasingly necessary to explore the democratic, institutional,...
Knowledge Management for Democratic Governance of Socio-Technical Systems (Chapter in The Future of Digital Democracy. Lecture Notes in Computer Science.)
December 2018
The Digital Transformation (DX) is a broad term describing the changes and innovations brought about by the introduction of information and communication technologies into all aspects of society....
Crowdsourcing accountability: ICT for service delivery
December 2018
We examine the effect on service delivery outcomes of a new information communication technology (ICT) platform that allows citizens to send free and anonymous messages to local government...
What the death of the INF Treaty means for Europe
November 2018
The 1987 INF Treaty was a landmark arms control and disarmament agreement that eliminated from Europe the most dangerous weapons of the era, and significantly decreased nuclear threats between NATO...
Guarding Traditions and Laws—Disciplining Bodies and Souls: Tradition, science, and religion in the age of Ottoman reform
October 2018
This article examines the religious and intellectual dynamics behind the Ottoman military reform movement, known as the New Order, in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries....
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Norman M. Naimark Senior Fellow, by courtesy Professor, History, Professor, by courtesy, German Studies, Senior Fellow, the Hoover Institution 
Condoleezza Rice Senior Fellow, by courtesy Professor, Political Science, Professor, Management, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution 
Timothy E. Josling Senior Fellow, by courtesy Professor, Food Research Institute, Emeritus, 1940-2018 
Russell A. Berman Senior Fellow, by courtesy Professor, Comparative Literature, Professor, German Studies, Senior Fellow, the Hoover Institution 
