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Fighting Air Pollution in China With Social Media
Study shows limits of 'liberation technology' in advancing change COLUMBUS, Ohio – The serious air pollution problem in China has attracted the attention of online activists who want the government…
Mershon Affiliate Organizes National Security Simulation
Students in Mershon affiliate Dakota Rudesill’s National Security Law class this fall had an unusual assignment for their final exam: They participated in a two-day immersive national security…
Parker Mines New Documents for Biography of Spanish King
Prolific scholar Geoffrey Parker has done it again. Parker — Andreas Dorpalen Professor of History, Distinguished University Professor, and Mershon Center affiliate — has another landmark book…
Sui Selected as Wilson Public Policy Scholar
Mershon affiliate Daniel Sui, professor and chair of the Department of Geography, has been selected as a 2015 Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Sui will…
Sociologist Studies Mass Murder to Predict, Prevent Genocide
Hollie Nyseth Brehm, assistant professor, sociology, is the lead author of a new study finding that perpetrators of the genocide in Rwanda were most likely to be males in their mid-30a. “We were…
Schweller Named Editor of 'Security Studies'
Randall Schweller, professor of political science, has been named editor-in-chief for a three-year term of Security Studies, a top 25 journal in international relations. The journal's editorial…
Atzili Wins Mershon Center’s Furniss Book Award for ‘Good Fences, Bad Neighbors’
Since World War II, nations have operated under the consensus that territorial aggression and conquest of one state by another should be prohibited. While this has greatly reduced conflict between…
Mershon Center Events Live on Through Recorded Archives
Each year, the Mershon Center for International Security Studies holds about 50 speaker events and conferences that reach more than 3,000 attendees from across Ohio State and the Central Ohio…
Remembering D-day: A 70th Anniversary Commemoration
June 6, 1944: D-Day — the most massive amphibious assault ever mounted on an enemy; the linchpin upon which the fate of the free world hinged. Its impact spanning two centuries changed the world — a…