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Nichols quoted in Semafor
The Mershon Center Wayne Woodrow Hayes Chair in National Security Studies Christopher McKnight Nichols is quoted in a Semafor story on the information wars.

Notes from the Field: Steph Pedron
Steph Pedron is a Mershon affiliate and a Political Science Ph.D. Candidate concentrating in American Politics, Political Methodology, and Political…

Ayaydin to represent Mershon Center at Arctic Encounter Summit
Mershon Postdoctoral Visiting Fellow Eda Ayaydin will represent the Mershon Center for International Security Studies at the 2025 Arctic Encounter Summit (AES) in Anchorage, Alaska July 30 -…

Mershon Postdoctoral Visiting Fellow Eda Ayaydin publishes article in The Arctic Institute
Eda Ayaydin's article for The Arctic Institute critically examines the symbolic and discursive dichotomies embedded in the Arctic Council’s process for assessing non-Arctic states’ observer…

Ayaydin publishes article on outsider geopolitics in E-International Relations
Mershon Postdoctoral Visiting Fellow Eda Ayaydin; and co-author Andreas Raspotnik, Director of the High North Center for Business and Governance at Nord University; published an article in E-…

Mershon Associate Director Teri Murphy hosts workshop on armed conflict and criminality in Bogotá, Colombia
This July, Teri Murphy, Associate Director for Peacebuilding Research at the Mershon Center for International Security Studies, travels to Bogotá, Colombia to host a workshop with co-hosts Roddy…

Mansoor on CBC News Network
CBC News Network's Andrew Nichols spoke to Retired U.S. Army Colonel and Mershon Gen. Raymond E. Mason Jr. Chair in Military History Peter Mansoor on the Israel-Iran War and ceasefire on June 24,…

Ohio State experts join the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme Val de Loire in France for a webinar exploring academic freedom
On April 28, the Mershon Center partnered with the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme Val de Loire (MSH) to present a webinar entitled “Franco-American Crossed Perspectives on Academic Freedom.”…

Ayaydin publishes Op-ed in High North News
Mershon Center postdoctoral visiting fellow Eda Ayaydin published the Op-ed "Arctic Exceptionalism: What It Was, What It Could Be - But Should It Be?" in the High North News.