New Faculty Publication
The International History Review has published an article by David Mayers. “Destruction Repaired and Destruction Anticipated: United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA), the Atomic Bomb, and U.S. Policy 1944-46.” A link to the article can be found here.
PhD students publish article in “Congress and the Presidency”
For your reading pleasure, take a look at the lead article in the most recent volume of Congress and the Presidency. “Mr Worldwide: International Affairs and the American Post-Presidency.” This is the work of two of the department’s distinguished Ph.D. students, Anshul Jain and Greg Winger. Congratulations to both authors on this important essay. Congress […]
PhD Student Publishes Article in Foreign Affairs Journal
Yasser El-Shimy, of the Ph.D. program, has (with Professor Nathan Brown of George Washington University) just published a most impressive article in the influential journal Foreign Affairs. The essay is: “Did Sisi Save Egypt? The Arab Spring at Five.” Here is a link to the article: https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/egypt/2016-01-25/did-sisi-save-egypt
Professor Crawford’s timely opinion essay on WBUR’s cognoscenti
WBUR’s cognoscenty recently featured an important and timely piece by Professor Neta Crawford. A link the the article can be found below. http://cognoscenti.wbur.org/2016/01/21/civilian-casualties-iraq-syria-us-war-on-isis-neta-c-crawford
BA/MA Student Article Publication
Alison Dorsi, a BA/MA student in last year’s class, has published an excellent article in the Journal of Politics and International Affairs: “Remedy’s Rhetoric: Differences in the Banking Crises of Ireland and Cyprus.” https://www.scribd.com/fullscreen/294242566?access_key=key-TntREJNGnLrRNN8l2VlI&allow_share=true&escape=false&view_mode=scroll
PO Grad Student publication
Ahmet Tekelioglu, one of PO’s outstanding graduate students, has had an article published re. religious pluralism and relations between Muslim, Catholic, and secular communities. This important article is featured on the Contending Modernities Project blog. The article nicely summarizes Ahmet’s research in Los Angeles (alongside Boston and the San Francisco Bay Area) for the Contending […]
New faculty publication
Professors John Gerring and Max Palmer have just published this important article in the American Political Science Review. “Demography and democracy: A global, district-level analysis of electoral contestation” – pdf
Professor Martin’s book published
Professor Cathie Jo Martin’s most recent book has just been published by Brookings Institution Press. This important work (coedited with Professor Jane Mansbridge of Harvard) is Political Negotiation: A Handbook.
Fall 2015 Department Newsletter
Click here for the latest issue of the Political Science Department Newsletter featuring articles from Judith Swanson, Efraim Inbar, Helen Knowles, Irene Gendzier, Doug Kriner, and Katherine Einstein.
Professor Mayers Publishes in Diplomacy and Statecraft
The current issue of Diplomacy and Statecraft (September 2015) contains an essay by David Mayers, “Humanity in 1948: The Genocide Convention and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.” By approving prohibitions on genocide and embracing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), the United Nations in 1948 sustained a theory premised on the centrality of […]