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Climate change, rising sea levels a threat to farmers in Bangladesh
Study: Salty soil drives changes in agriculture, migrationRising sea levels driven by climate change make for salty soil, and that is likely to force about 200,000 coastal farmers in Bangladesh…

Four Mershon affiliates featured in latest issue of 'Ascent'
Research by four Mershon Center affiliates is featured in the Autumn 2018 issue of Ascent, published by the College of Arts and Sciences at Ohio State.
Bear Braumoeller, associate…

Youth vote could help Democratic Party
Will a historically apathetic group show up to the polls?Young voters could sway the outcome of this month’s midterm elections in favor of Democrats — if they vote.
They usually don’t.…

Mershon Center welcomes new peace studies coordinator
The Mershon Center for International Security Studies has a new peace studies coordinator on staff by way of Northern Ireland.
Teri Murphy was most recently deputy executive director…

Madokoro's 'Elusive Refuge' wins Mershon Center's Furniss Book Award
The 1949 Chinese Communist Revolution is a subject of inexhaustible historical interest, but the plight of millions of Chinese who fled China during this tumultuous period has been largely…

Mershon graduate student affiliate receives Fulbright-Hays grant
Mershon graduate student affiliate Barbara Roth is one of five doctoral candidates from The Ohio State University to be awarded the prestigious Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation…

Mershon Center co-sponsors conference in Moscow
The Mershon Center for International Security Studies is a co-sponsor for "Diplomatic Dialogue: Public opinion and public diplomacy in international relations," a one-day conference to be held on…

Shane testifies at Kavanaugh confirmation hearing
Read Shane’s testimony in full here: http://go.osu.edu/CaAx
When Mershon affiliate Peter Shane, Jacob E. Davis and Jacob E. Davis II Chair in Law, was called upon by Democrats to testify…

Kwak joins Mershon Center as postdoctoral researcher
Joonghyun Kwak is joining the Mershon Center for International Security Studies as a postdoctoral researcher working with Craig Jenkins on the Survey Data Recycling project. His…