Elizabeth is a Ph.D. candidate and NSF GRFP Fellow at the George Washington University. Her research examines the politics of policymaking around transparency and anti-corruption laws, with a focus on beneficial ownership transparency. She is also interested in the politics of expertise and of data access and auditing in various organizations. Her research has been published in Regulation and Governance and Law and Inequality.
Rosalie Rubio is a Ph.D. candidate at George Washington University. Her scholarship examines authoritarian politics, civil-military relations, terrorism and counterterrorism, and the implications of security policy on governance in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). She conducts policy-relevant research on counter-terrorism policymaking and enforcement, as well as on the dynamics of civil-military and state-society relations. Her...
Devon Cantwell (she/her/hers) is a Ph.D. student at the University of Ottawa in the Department of Political Studies. Devon’s research studies how cities globally enact climate mitigation and adaptation plans, with a specific focus on the multi-level relations of city climate action planning as well as the ethical implications of city climate actions. Her research focuses on case studies of the adaptation and mitigation strategies of four global...
The counterfactual analysis used in debates about NATO expansion is far too limited. It makes the untenable assumption that the world would like mostly the same. This piece offers an alternative.
Cheryl Rofer, a chemist, retired from Los Alamos National Laboratory in 2001 after a 35-year career in which she worked on projects dealing with environmental cleanup at Los Alamos and in Estonia and Kazakhstan, disassembly and decommissioning of nuclear weapons, and chemical weapons destruction, along with many other issues. Nowadays she spends a good part of her time writing for the blog Nuclear Diner, which she and two fellow Los Alamos...
Álvaro Morcillo is a Research Fellow in the Cluster of Excellence “Contestations of the Liberal Script” at the Free University Berlin. His research interests include international theory, international political sociology, history of the social sciences, in particular of International Relations, and philanthropic foundations. He is currently working on a book with the tentative title The Philanthropic Domination. Foreign Donors, Their...
PTJ and Dan pick up where they left off – on Chapter 5 of Arnold Wolfers’ Discord and Collaborati…
What if how presidents talk about ending wars contributes to the cycle of U.S. military intervention? Stephen J. Heidt answers 6+1 questions about his new book.
Stephen Heidt completed his doctorate in Rhetoric & Politics at Georgia State University in Atlanta. Currently, he is a lecturer of Communication Studies at California State University Northridge where he teaches courses in political communication, rhetorical theory and criticism, and deliberation and democracy. His research focuses on presidential rhetoric, war and peace, democracy promotion, and, occasionally, Latin America. He has...
Film critics have approached Adam Sandler’s films the same way that IR scholars have analyzed the rise and fall of the Liberal International Order (LIO)
Did the study of state formation ever lose its religion? There’s a new wave of interest in the Catholic Church as an institutional formation.
Simple steps to promote qualitative research in journals It happened again. After months of waiting, you finally got that "Decision" email: Rejection. That's not so bad, it happens to everyone. But it's the nature of the rejection that gets to you. The reviewers (you assume fellow quals) didn't engage with your careful use of process tracing, your intricate case selection method. They just questioned your findings, pointed out your imperfect...