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• April 27, 2021 Biden at 100 Days: A Climate Foreign-Policy Scorecard
  By: Jeff D. Colgan, Thomas N. Hale
• April 05, 2021 The Costs of Working with the Americans in Afghanistan: The United States’ Broken Special Immigrant Visa Process
  By: Noah Coburn
• March 04, 2021 The Costs of United States’ Post-9/11 “Security Assistance”: How Counterterrorism Intensified Conflict in Burkina Faso and Around the World
  By: Stephanie Savell
• February 01, 2021 United States Counterterrorism Operations 2018–2020
  By: Stephanie Savell, Rachel McMahon, Emily Rockwell, Yueshan Li
• December 07, 2020 Afghanistan’s Rising Civilian Death Toll Due to Airstrikes, 2017-2020
  By: Neta C. Crawford
• October 13, 2020 The Human Cost of U.S. Interventions in Iraq: A History From the 1960s Through the Post-9/11 Wars
  By: Zainab Saleh
• September 21, 2020 Creating Refugees: Displacement Caused by the United States’ Post-9/11 Wars
  By: David Vine, Cala Coffman, Katalina Khoury, Madison Lovasz, Helen Bush, Rachael Leduc, Jennifer Walkup
• September 16, 2020 The Wars Are Here: How the United States’ Post-9/11 Wars Helped Militarize U.S. Police
  By: Jessica Katzenstein
• July 13, 2020 Update on COVID-19 Training for Health Care Workers
  By: Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies
• June 30, 2020 The Growth of the “Camo Economy” and the Commercialization of the Post-9/11 Wars
  By: Heidi Peltier
• 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
• January 01, 2020 Numbers and Per Capita Distribution of Troops Serving in the U.S. Post-9/11 Wars in 2019, By State
  By: Stephanie Savell, Rachel McMahon
• 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 13, 2019 United States Budgetary Costs and Obligations of Post-9/11 Wars through FY2020: $6.4 Trillion
  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