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Madhumita Dutta and Larkin Cleland published an article in The American Prospect about the data center boom, new land market, and other issues in the Silicon Heartland.
Ryo Sawayama published an article, which examines how the United States and Japan can strengthen economic resilience against Chinese coercion by developing interoperable mechanisms that help…
Christopher McKnight Nichols and Kaveri Sarkar published an article in The Conversation about US strategic ‘credibility’ – from Vietnam to Iran.
As a result in part of Mershon support, Governing reconciliation: Metagovernance, alignment, and sustainable peace in Northern Ireland was published in Peace and Sustainability …
Sarah Van Beurden co-authored the article Arts across Africa before 1600: An Ever-Growing Void? for the journal African Arts.
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Madhumita Dutta published an article in The Wire about Jahlma Nallah, a glacial stream that floods in the sun. This phenomenon, affecting thousands of rural mountain households, local…
Hannah Kosstrin recently published a new book entitled Kinesthetic Peoplehood: Jewish Diasporic Dance Migrations (Oxford University Press 2026), which examines Jewish diasporic dance…
Redemption: MacArthur and the Campaign for the Philippines by Peter R. Mansoor, professor of history and Mershon Center Major General Raymond E. Mason Jr. Chair in Military History, won…
Brooks Marmon, former Mershon Center postdoctoral scholar currently at the University of Arkansas, edited a new book, Edson Sithole: Law, Liberation and the Cost of Dissent (Voices of…
Jennifer Mitzen is quoted in a Global Policy article discussing "China's Ontological Advantage". Mitzen argues that states need "to experience oneself as a whole, continuous person in…
Through support of two new initiatives, the Mershon Center is enhancing the scholarship relevant to national, international, and human security. The Mershon Center is proud to announce that we are…
A recently published article in The New Yorker by Ruth Marcus discussed Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ speech and views against Progressivism and Progressives. Christopher…
Teri Murphy is a co-author of the recently published "How Local Rituals Support Social Healing in Conflict-Affected Societies" (University of Notre Dame, 2026).
Starting in 2023 and led by Associate Director for Peacebuilding Research Dr. Teri Murphy, the Mershon Center partnered with International Alert Nepal on a three-year research initiative examining…
In today's episode of NucleCast, Professor Dakota Rudesill, Esq. examines the legal boundaries that govern the use of military force, with a particular focus on the United States and Iran. Drawing…
Dorothy Noyes, Mershon Center director, published an article on ritual and international order in Global Studies Quarterly.
Dr. Erin Lin, associate professor of Political Science and Mershon Center affiliate, has been honored by the International Studies Association (ISA) with two prestigious awards for her book
Ivan Kurilla, Mershon Visiting Scholar, was recently quoted by The New York Times in an article featuring a small Russian town that sent the majority of its residents to war. "The state…