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February 01, 2020
Income Segregation and Intergenerational Mobility Across Colleges in the United States
By: Nicholas Turner, Raj Chetty, John N. Friedman, Emmanuel Saez, Danny Yagan -
January 01, 2020
Numbers and Per Capita Distribution of Troops Serving in the U.S. Post-9/11 Wars in 2019, By State
By: Heidi Peltier -
January 01, 2020
The Cost of Debt-financed War: Public Debt and Rising Interest for Post-9/11 War Spending
By: Heidi Peltier -
November 13, 2019
United States Budgetary Costs and Obligations of Post-9/11 Wars through FY2020: $6.4 Trillion
By: Neta C. Crawford -
November 13, 2019
Human Cost of Post-9/11 Wars: Direct War Deaths in Major War Zones, Afghanistan and Pakistan (October 2001 – October 2019) Iraq (March 2003 – October 2019); Syria (September 2014-October 2019); Yemen (October 2002-October 2019); and Other
By: Catherine Lutz, Neta C. Crawford -
November 13, 2019
Cut Military Spending, Fund Green Manufacturing
By: Heidi Peltier -
November 13, 2019
Pentagon Fuel Use, Climate Change, and the Costs of War
By: Neta C. Crawford -
November 01, 2019
Mapping, Measuring, and Managing Methane: The Critical Role of a Potent Climate Pollutant
By: Deborah Gordon, Frances Reuland -
September 19, 2019
The Human and Financial Costs of the Explosive Remnants of War in Afghanistan
By: Suzanne Fiederlein -
September 05, 2019
The Costs of War in Somalia
By: Catherine Besteman -
August 21, 2019
The CIA’s “Army”: A Threat to Human Rights and an Obstacle to Peace in Afghanistan
By: Astri Suhrke, Antonio De Lauri -
January 01, 2019
War Spending and Lost Opportunities
By: Heidi Garrett-Peltier -
January 01, 2019
Where We Fight: US Counterterror War Locations 2017-2018
By: Stephanie Savell -
November 14, 2018
United States Budgetary Costs of the Post-9/11 Wars Through FY2019: $5.9 Trillion Spent and Obligated
By: Neta C. Crawford -
November 14, 2018
The Costs of War: Obstacles to Public Understanding
By: Steven Aftergood -
November 01, 2018
Human Cost of the Post-9/11 Wars: Lethality and the Need for Transparency
By: Neta C. Crawford -
July 01, 2018
How Do War Financing Strategies Lead to Inequality? A Brief History from the War of 1812 through the Post-9/11 Wars
By: Rosella Cappella Zielinski -
May 01, 2018
International Intervention and the Rule of Law after Civil War: Evidence from Liberia
By: Robert Blair -
December 01, 2016
Does Compliance Pay? Social Standards and Firm-level Trade
By: Greg Distelhorst, Richard M. Locke -
December 01, 2016
Does Citizenship Abate Class? Evidence and Reflections from Bangalore, India
By: Patrick Heller, Ebony Bertorelli, Siddharth Swaminathan, Ashutosh Varshney -
August 01, 2016
When Courts Plan: The Greening of Delhi's Autorickshaws
By: Atul Pokharel -
July 01, 2016
Cabal City: Regime Theory and Indian Urbanization
By: Patrick Heller -
July 01, 2016
Flexible Governance and Perceived Fairness: Evidence from Farmer Managed Irrigation Systems in Nepal
By: Atul Pokharel -
August 01, 2015
Does Lean Improve Labor Standards? Management and Social Performance in the Nike Supply Chain
By: Greg Distelhorst, Jens Hainmueller, Richard M. Locke -
August 01, 2015
The Political Foundations of State Effectiveness
By: et al Miguel Centeno -
November 05, 2014
US Reconstruction Aid for Afghanistan: The Dollars and Sense
By: Catherine Lutz, Sujaya Desai -
November 05, 2014
What War Has Wrought in Afghan Women's Lives
By: Jennifer Heath -
November 05, 2014
Democratic Aspirations and Destabilizing Outcomes in Afghanistan
By: Norah Niland -
October 05, 2014
Socializing the European Semester? Economic Governance and Social Policy Coordination in Europe 2020
By: Jonathan Zeitlin, Bart Vanhercke -
October 05, 2014
Albanian Local Government Finance on the Eve of Territorial Consolidation
By: Anthony Levitas -
September 05, 2014
The Politics of History: India and China, 1949-1962
By: Nirupama Rao -
April 05, 2014
Collective Reputation and the Dynamics of Statistical Discrimination
By: Young-Chul Kim, Glenn C. Loury -
April 05, 2014
Widening Gap in College Admission and Improving Equal Opportunity in South Korea
By: Young-Chul Kim, Young-Joon Kim, Glenn C. Loury -
February 05, 2014
The Continuing Cost of the Iraq War: The Spread of Jihadi Groups Throughout the Region
By: Jessica Stern -
October 05, 2013
Does Lean Capability Building Improve Labor Standards? Evidence from the Nike Supply Chain
By: Greg Distelhorst, Jens Hainmueller, Richard M. Locke -
October 05, 2013
Women's Rights, Indigenous Rights, and Social Cohesion in Latin America
By: Jane S. Jaquette -
October 05, 2013
Producing Knowledge in the Global South: The Political Economy of Social Science in Argentina, Colombia, and Peru
By: Richard Snyder, Maria Angelica Bautista, Angelica Duran-Martinez, Jazmin Sierra -
September 05, 2013
Who Sets the Intellectual Agenda? Foreign Funding and Social Science in Peru
By: Richard Snyder, Kelly Bay, Cecilia Perla -
September 05, 2013
The International Politics of Drugs and Illicit Trade in the Americas
By: Peter Andreas, Angelica Duran-Martinez -
September 05, 2013
The Illicit Trade Conflict Connection: Insights from U.S. History
By: Peter Andreas -
September 05, 2013
Illicit Americas: Historical Dynamics of Smuggling in U.S. Relations with Its Neighbors
By: Peter Andreas -
September 05, 2013
Dialogue of the Deaf: Scholars, Practitioners, and the Drug War in U.S. Foreign Relations
By: Peter Andreas -
August 05, 2013
Parallel Paths to Enforcement: Private Compliance, Public Regulation, and Labor Standards in the Brazilian Sugar Sector
By: Richard M. Locke, Salo V. Coslovsky -
February 05, 2013
Democracy in Post-Invasion Iraq
By: Melani Cammett -
October 05, 2009
Conduct and Discipline in Un Peacekeeping Operations: Culture, Political Economy and Gender
By: Catherine Lutz, Matthew C. Gutmann, Keith Brown -
January 05, 2001
Humanitarian Action: The Conflict Connection
By: S. Neil MacFarlane -
January 05, 2001
Targeted Financial Sanctions: A Manual for Design and Implementation
By: Thomas J. Biersteker, Sue Eckert, Natalie Reid, Peter Romaniuk -
January 05, 2000
The Dynamics of Coordination
By: Marc Sommers -
January 05, 2000
Humanitarian Action: A Transatlantic Agenda for Operations and Research
By: Larry Minear, Thomas G. Weiss -
January 05, 2000
The Landmine Ban: A Case Study in Humanitarian Advocacy
By: Don Hubert -
January 05, 2000
NATO and Humanitarian Action in the Kosovo Crisis
By: Marc Sommers, Larry Minear, Ted van Baarda -
January 05, 2000
Politics and Humanitarian Action
By: S. Neil MacFarlane -
January 05, 2000
Integration and Disintegration in the Former Soviet Union: Implications for Regional and Global Security
By: P. Terrence Hopmann, Stephen D. Shenfield, Dominique Arel -
January 05, 2000
When Needs are Rights: An Overview of UN Efforts to Integrate Human Rights in Humanitarian Action
By: Karen Kenny -
January 05, 1999
Protecting Human Rights: The Challenge to Humanitarian Organizations
By: Diane Paul, Larry Minear, Mark Frohardt -
January 05, 1999
A Humanitarian Practitioner's Guide to International Human Right Law
By: William G. O'Neill -
January 05, 1998
Humanitarian Action in the Caucasus: A Guide for Practitioners
By: Greg Hansen -
January 05, 1998
Toward More Humane and Effective Sanctions Management: Enhancing the Capacity of the United Nations System
By: David Cortright, Larry Minear, Thomas G. Weiss, George A. Lopez, Julia Wagler -
January 05, 1998
Relief and Development: The Struggle for Synergy
By: Ian Smillie -
January 05, 1997
NATO and Humanitarian Action in the Kosovo Crisis
By: Marc Sommers, Larry Minear, Ted van Baarda -
January 05, 1997
Human Development: The World After Copehagen
By: Richard Jolly -
January 05, 1997
Humanitarian Action and Politics: The Case of Nagorno-Karabakh
By: S. Neil MacFarlane, Larry Minear -
January 05, 1997
More Teaching About International Organization: Selected Syllabi
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January 05, 1996
Armed Conflict in Georgia: A Case in Humanitarian Action and Peacekeeping
By: S. Neil MacFarlane, Larry Minear, Stephen D. Shenfield -
January 05, 1996
Imagining a Free Cuba: Carlos Manuuel de Cespedes and José Martí
By: Wayne S. Smith, Cathy L. Jrade, Geaorge Monteiro, Nelson R. Orringer, Louis A. Pérez,Jr, Ivan A. Schulman, Thomas E. Skidmore -
January 05, 1996
The Policies of Mercy: UN Coordination in Afghanistan, Mozambique, and Rwanda
By: Antonio Donini -
January 05, 1996
Responses to the Quest for Nationhood, 1986-1996
By: Larry Minear, Thomas G. Weiss, William G. O'Neill, Robert Maguire, Edwige Blutansky, Jaques Fomerand, Sarah Zaidi -
January 05, 1996
War and Humanitarian Action in Chechnya
By: Greg Hansen, Robert Seeley -
January 05, 1995
Humanitarian Action and Security in Liberia, 1989-1994
By: Larry Minear, Thomas G. Weiss, Colin Scott -
January 05, 1995
Mexico: The Artist Is A Woman
By: Lucreita Giese, Carmen Boullosa, Marjorie Agosín, Sandra Berler, Elena Gascón-Vera, Laura Riesco, Margo Glantz -
January 05, 1994
United Nations Financing Problems and the New Generation of Peacekeeping and Peace Enforcement
By: Anthony McDermott