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Writing About Japan
Richard J. Samuels
In Nora Kottmann and Cornelia Reiher, eds., Studying Japan: Handbook of Research, Fieldwork and Methods (Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgessellschaft, 2020)
Analysis
Imams and Businessmen: Islamist Service Provision in Turkey
Fotini Christia, with Tugba Bozcaga
MIT Political Science Department Research Paper No. 2020-10, November 2020
Analysis
What the Nuclear Ban Treaty Means for America's Allies
Heather Williams
Commentary
Take Emotions Out of Politics
Roger Petersen
Precis (Fall 2020/Winter 2021)
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The Maritime Rung on the Escalation Ladder: Naval Blockades in a US-China Conflict
Fiona Cunningham
Security Studies, Volume 29, 2020 - Issue 4: Security Studies in a New Era of Maritime Competition
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Tests for Network Cascades via Branching Processes
Fotini Christia
IEEE Vol. 7, No. 4 (2020) (With Paolo Bertolotti and Ali Jadbabaie)
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Why We Can’t Be Friends with Our Allies
Joshua Shifrinson, with Patrick Porter
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Adjusting for Confounding with Text Matching
Richard Nielsen (with Margaret Roberts and Brandon Stewart).
American Journal of Political Science, 64 (4) 2020
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Review of The Last Card: Inside George W. Bush’s Decision to Surge in Iraq.
Roger Petersen
Review of Timothy Andrews Sayle, Jeffery A. Engel, Hal Brands, and William Inboden. The Last Card: Inside George W. Bush’s Decision to Surge in Iraq. H-Diplo Roundtable, XXII-7, October 12, 2020.
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The Predictable Hazards of Unpredictability: Why Madman Behavior Doesn’t Work
Caitlin Talmadge
The Washington Quartely Vol. 23, No. 3 (2020) (With Samuel Seitz)
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Preparing the Cyber Battlefield: Assessing a Novel Escalation Risk in a Sino-American Crisis
Fiona Cunningham (with Ben Buchanan)
Analysis
Commentary
Pandemic Politics: COVID-19 and the US Military
Eleanor Freund (with Leah Matchett)
Commentary
Pandemic Politics: COVID-19 and grand strategy
Emma Campbell-Mohn and Suzanne Freeman
Commentary
Beware of Latvians Bearing Gifts
Harvey M. Sapolsky
Commentary
Training the Covid-19 Cohort: Adapting and Preserving Social Science Research
Fotini Christia and J. Chappell Lawson
Commentary
Pandemic Politics: How the Future Strategy Forum amplifies the expertise of women
Sara Plana, Rachel Tecott
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Why the U.S. Dropped Atomic Bombs on Japan
Richard J. Samuels
New York Times, August 3, 2020
Commentary
Adjusting for Confounding with Text Matching
Richard Nielsen
American Journal of Political Science, 2020 (with Margaret Roberts and Brandon Stewart).
Analysis
Partnership or Predation? How Rising States Contend with Declining Great Powers
Joshua R. Itzkowitz Shifrinson
Analysis
The nomination of Gen. Lloyd Austin
Caitlin Talmadge
Brookings blog, Order from Chaos, December 10, 2020
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