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The United States's North Korea problem
What is North Korea going to do next? That’s a question that we all seem to be asking a lot lately and nobody has a definitive answer as to what the country and its mercurial leadership will do. …
Mershon affiliates win NSF grant for comparative elections study
Four Mershon Center faculty affiliates have received a $54,000 grant from the Directorate of Political Science in the National Science Foundation to conduct a post-election survey of the…
Political scientist finds that UN does its job preventing war
Skyler Cranmer, Carter Phillips and Sue Henry Associate Professor of Political Science and affiliate of the Mershon Center for International Security Studies and Ohio State Discovery Themes'…
Mershon affiliates receive NSF award to develop international database
Mershon affiliates Craig Jenkins, senior research scientist and professor emeritus of sociology, along with Maciek Slomczynski, professor emeritus of sociology, and Irina Tomescu-Dubrow,…
Mandela Washington Fellows visit Mershon
Twenty-three Mandela Washington Fellows visited the Mershon Center on July 18, 2017, to speak with faculty members Rick Herrmann, Paul Beck, Vladimir Kogan and Alex Acs. Faculty briefed the…
Hahn wins Distinguished Service Award
Peter Hahn, professor of history and divisional dean for the arts and humanities, was honored by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) with its first Distinguished…
Where climate change is most likely to induce food violence
Study finds capable governments more important than weather COLUMBUS, Ohio – While climate change is expected to lead to more violence related to food scarcity, new research suggests that the…
Tokdemir joins Mershon Center as visiting scholar
The Mershon Center has a new visiting scholar for 2017-18 academic year: Efe Tokdemir, a postdoctoral fellow with International Studies Association’s James N. Rosenau Fellowship, who will be…
Do Folklore and Security Studies Mix? Mershon Affiliate Says Yes
Mershon affiliate Dorothy Noyes, professor of English and comparative studies, has published a new book: Sustaining Interdisciplinary Collaboration: A Guide for the Academy (University…