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Longtime Mershon Affiliate Chad Alger Dies at 89

Chadwick Alger, professor emeritus of political science and public policy at the Mershon Center, passed away on February 15, 2014, at the age of 89.

Alger, an authority on peacebuilding and…

Bear Braumoeller

Braumoeller Wins J. David Singer Book Award

Mershon affiliate Bear Braumoeller is the recipient of the 2013-14 J. David Singer Book Award Committee for ISA-Midwest. The award was given for Braumoeller's book The Great Powers and the…

Students Organize Peace Conference, Awards Ceremony

Each year the student Peace Studies Society at Ohio State organizes a speaking event and awards ceremony to recognize the efforts of undergraduates who have contributed to the cause of peace and…

Chuck Hermann

Mershon Welcomes Back Former Director as Visiting Scholar

The Mershon Center welcomes a new visiting scholar this year -- or perhaps we should say we are welcoming him back.

Charles F. Hermann (Chuck), now at Texas A&M, has a long…

Kendra McSweeney

Drug Trafficking Leads to Deforestation in Central America

‘Drug policy is conservation policy,’ researchers say

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Add yet another threat to the list of problems facing the rapidly disappearing rainforests of Central America…

Pete Mansoor in front of Mershon Center repeating text

Reddit AMA by Peter Mansoor takes readers behind Iraq Surge

"I am Colonel (Retired) Peter Mansoor, former executive officer to General David Petraeus during the surge in Iraq and now a professor of military history at The Ohio State University. AMA."

Bear Braumoeller

Braumoeller Wins Best Book Award From International Studies Association

Mershon affiliate Bear Braumoeller, associate professor of political science, was recently awarded the ISA (International Studies Association) Best Book Award for his book The Great Powers and the…

Yana Hashamova

Article by Hashamova Wins Heldt Prize

An article by Yana Hashamova, Mershon affiliate and director of the Center for Slavic and East European Studies, has won the Heldt Prize for best article from the Association for Women in Slavic…

Pete Mansoor in front of Mershon Center repeating text

Mansoor's Surge Named Runner-up at California Book Festival

The latest book by Peter Mansoor, Gen. Raymond E. Mason Chair in Military History, has been named runner-up for best biography/autobiography by the Southern California Book Festival.