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Teri Murphy and Christopher Gelpi

Mershon symposium to explore peacebuilding partnerships

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…

Mershon Center Strategic Plan 2019-23

Mershon Center launches new strategic plan

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…

J. Craig Jenkins, Joyce Chen, C.K. Shum

Climate change lessons from Bangladesh's disappearing farms

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.…

Erik Nisbet and Olga Kamenchuk

Mershon affiliates part of $300,000 State Department grant

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

The grant,…

Randy Schweller

Conference explores international relations through realism lens

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,…

Peter Shane

What does impeachment mean? 4 things you might not know

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…

Janet Box-Steffensmeier

Box-Steffensmeier elected next president of APSA

Janet Box-Steffensmeier, Vernal G. Riffe Professor in Government and Politics in the Department of Political Science, has been elected as the next president of the American Political Science…

Inés Valdez

Valdez receives two American Political Science Association awards

Inés Valdez, associate professor of political science, recently received the Stanley Hoffman Award by the American Political Science Association's French Politics section for her article "…

Bear Braumoeller

What’s preventing the next world war? Random luck

Contrary to popular belief, war is not declining, according to a new analysis of the last 200 years of international conflict.

In fact, the belief that war is disappearing has lulled us…