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India's Recent Election & its Implications on Future Policymaking
Komarraju, Ravi ( 2014-06-12 )Ravi Komarraju will deliver a small guest lecture at the Mershon Center focusing on the recent election in India and its possible effects on Indian domestic and foreign policy. -
Interdisciplinary Studies of Political Behavior: From Election to Protests
Paxton, Pamela; Jenkins, Craig; Beck, Paul; Beaulieu, Emily; Crenshaw, Ed; Gunther, Richard; Hughes, Melanie; Maher, Tom; Nisbet, Erik; Slomczynski, Kazimierz; Tomescu-Dubrow, Irina ( 2014-05-06 )The conference brings together noted scholars in the fields of democracy, politics and protest, and cross-national methodology, to contribute – via lectures, presentations and discussions in a multidisciplinary forum – to ... -
Understanding al-Qaida's Grand Strategy
Habeck, Mary ( 2014-04-17 )The war with al-Qaida is not over. Despite the best efforts of three U.S. presidents, the engagement of the world's most competent and effective militaries, and counter-terrorism campaigns supported and carried out by the ... -
Critical Foreign Policy Decisions: Continue or Change Course?
Hermann, Charles ( 2014-04-15 )When government leaders have made major investments to a foreign or security policy, how do they respond to signals that the policy is failing? Exploration of four cases involving Lyndon Johnson (Vietnam), MacKenzie King ... -
Inequality, Distributive Conflict and Regime Change
Haggard, Stephen ( 2014-04-11 )An important body of new work in comparative politics suggests a causal relationship between inequality, distributive conflict and changes both to and from democratic rule. However, we show that inequality does not appear ...