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Do Republicans view Vladimir Putin in the same light that Russians view Donald Trump?  

Mershon Center’s Olga Kamenchuk says the findings may explain why congressional Republicans are…

On November 15-16 the Mershon Center for International Security Studies hosted its first annual peacebuilding symposium, “Exploring Obstacles to Social Cohesion in the Aftermath of Violent…

This post is a book overview of Un Siècle de Réfugiés. Photographier l’exil [A Century of Refugees: Photographing Exile] by Bruno Cabanes, Donald G. and Mary A. Dunn Chair in Modern Military…

In the aftermath of violent conflict, peace practitioners, policymakers, and foundations spend billions of dollars and decades of time trying to rebuild societies torn apart…

After a yearlong process of surveys, focus groups, and analyses, the Mershon Center for International Security Studies is launching its strategic plan for 2019 through 2023, “Interdisciplinary…

This is farmland along a river in Bangladesh.

At least, it used to be. 

The stubble on the left is a rice field that used to stretch another 600 meters out into the river. Flooding…

Four Mershon affiliates are part of a $300,000 grant from the State Department to create the Serbian Educational Alliance.

The grant, administered…

Realism as a theoretical perspective has dominated the study of international relations for centuries. From the sophists and Thucydides, to Machiavelli and Hobbes, E. H. Carr and Hans Morgenthau,…

Impeachment is a loaded word. It's also a complicated process, one that most of us probably don't fully understand. 

Did you know, for instance, that a president who is impeached and…