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Why would Scots be ambivalent about the monarchy? /s
This week, King Charles had a second coronation in Scotland, following the official one in London. He took part in a parade through Edinburgh and received the Scottish crown jewels in St. Giles Cathedral. While this was not technically necessary, as England and Scotland share the same throne, it indicated his desire to unify Great Britain and increase his standing among Scots. They were, as the New York Times reported, "ambivalent." While many...
In Memory of Bear Braumoeller
Sometimes you come across people that permanently change the way you think. About life, yourself, or an area of study. They instill a sense of resolute optimism about the world and your abilities. Bear Braumoeller was that person for us. Wise, accomplished, brilliant, humble, and kind. Anyone who can be remembered that way lived life well. Bear is one of those people. He was our professor, mentor, colleague, and friend. We were richer for...
David Peterson
David A. Peterson is a PhD candidate in Political Science at Ohio State University and an incoming postdoctoral fellow at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. His research focuses on the social origins of international institutions, order, and cooperation with an eclectic methodological approach drawn from historical international relations alongside complexity and network science. His dissertation explores...
Jared Edgerton
Jared Edgerton is an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Dallas and external researcher with Stanford University’s Human Trafficking Data Lab. His research focuses on the social origins of conflict at the individual, subnational, and international levels. To study these processes, he uses, adapts, and develops tools in network analysis, computational linguistics, and machine learning. Jared has publications at American Journal of...
Maël van Beek
Maël van Beek is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science (International Relations and Methods) at The Ohio State University and an incoming Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics at Princeton University. His research investigates the strategic implications of preferences for international bargaining in the context of great power competition between the United States, China, and Russia. He uses formal...
Liuya Zhang
Liuya Zhang is a Ph.D. candidate in political science at the Ohio State University, with international relations and political methodology majors and comparative politics minor. She has a regional specialty in East Asia. Her research focuses on the postcolonial perspective of national identity, ideology, soft/symbolic power, public opinion, and foreign policy. Within her field, Liuya Zhang has a strong interest in interpretive approach,...
Haoming Xiong
Haoming Xiong is a Ph.D. candidate in political science at The Ohio State University, specializing in international relations and political methodology. His research focuses on international security, international order, social networks, and computational modeling. His dissertation adopts a network-relational perspective to examine how major powers, in the context of great power rivalry, can successfully exercise disruptive strategies to...
Michael Lopate
Michael Lopate is a PhD Candidate in International Relations and Political Methodology at The Ohio State University. His research focuses on applying complex systems theory to international problems. His dissertation develops a new, rigorous theory of great power decline, explaining decline as a result of becoming strong, part of a trade-off between strength and stability that all states make. Beyond his dissertation, he has also written on...
Andrew Goodhart
Andrew Goodhart is a PhD Candidate in International Relations and Political Methodology at The Ohio State University. His research focuses on international order, societal mobilization, and how the legitimacy of political institutions is created and contested. Andrew uses a range of methods to get traction on these issues, including natural language processing, agent-based models, case studies, and survey experiments. He is particularly...
Maryum Alam
Maryum Alam is a political science Ph.D. Candidate (ABD) at The Ohio State University, specializing in international relations and quantitative political methodology. Her research revolves around foreign policy decision-making and its implications for the use of force abroad. Maryum’s dissertation investigates the sources and consequences of leader time horizons on the maintenance of coercive foreign policies, including military interventions...
World Refugee Day
World Refugee Day was last week (June 20). Ideally I would have written this then, but I haven't been as good on real-time commenting since Twitter fell apart. I still found it important to say something here, though. I am not an expert on this issue. I wrote one article on religious repression and forced migration, but my co-author had the subject matter expertise. I've written a few letters in support of asylum seeker resettlement in Vermont,...