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Avishai Melamed @avishaimelamed.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

I previously spent three years at Reppy PACS, both as member of its graduate student cohorts and later as Director's Fellow. Over the course of three graduate conferences I've seen so many fantastic projects and met excellent scholars. So help continue this legacy and share your latest project!

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Avishai Melamed @avishaimelamed.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

External participants from outside of Cornell University will be offered a modest stipend of up to $500 for expenses like travel and lodgings.

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Avishai Melamed @avishaimelamed.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

This conference invites submission of abstracts from graduate students from different fields including, but not limited to, political science/government, sociology, history, science and technology studies, anthropology, philosophy, law, and communications.

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Avishai Melamed @avishaimelamed.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

If your research focuses on topics like climate-driven (in)security and governance, identity & conflict, nuclear security, emerging technologies, international organizations, human rights, race, and gender, now's your chance to get, and give, feedback on theoretical arguments, methods, and findings!

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Avishai Melamed @avishaimelamed.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

The Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies is hosting its annual graduate student conference! live-einaudi.pantheonsite.io/programs/rep... Applications are due this Friday! So apply and join this year's cohort of interdisciplinary scholars here at Cornell University on April 12th!

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Interdisciplinary Approaches to Peace and ConflictConference date: April 12, 2025 Deadline for abstract submi

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Avishai Melamed @avishaimelamed.bsky.social · 23/08/2024

Happy to share that I've defended my prospectus and advanced to PhD candidacy! I'm looking forward to dissertation research and can't wait to see how my project develops. Many thanks to my committee and the faculty advisors who have made this work possible.

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Avishai Melamed @avishaimelamed.bsky.social · 15/04/2024

On a personal note, I've been reading Space Policy since my early undergraduate days. The journal has been an invaluable resource for countless projects. I am greatly honored and grateful for the opportunity to contribute to this venerable publication.

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Avishai Melamed @avishaimelamed.bsky.social · 15/04/2024

/7 Lastly, we conclude that the original turn to New Space has been profoundly influential, and that its political, economic, and social effects will far outlast the context that initiated the trend.

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Avishai Melamed @avishaimelamed.bsky.social · 15/04/2024

/6 We also consider both the international proliferation of the public-private partnership as a model for national agencies seeking to replicate the success of past collaborations, as well as the hazards involved in incurring some of New Space's underlying risks.

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Avishai Melamed @avishaimelamed.bsky.social · 15/04/2024

/5 Simultaneously, increasing perceptions of "great power rivalry" between the U.S. and China increased demand for status and market competition, as well as for commercial support of military activities. New Space was well-placed to support both prestige and security objectives.

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Avishai Melamed @avishaimelamed.bsky.social · 15/04/2024

/4 In particular, the end of the Space Shuttle program and declining diplomatic relations brought attention to the risks of dependence on Russia for crewed spaceflight. The parallel emergence of New Space launch capabilities occurred at the right time to accommodate the concern.

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Avishai Melamed @avishaimelamed.bsky.social · 15/04/2024

/3 We argue that only the combination of unique New Space offerings alongside renewed geopolitical demands could have produced the massive scale and depth of cooperation increasingly observed today.

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Avishai Melamed @avishaimelamed.bsky.social · 15/04/2024

/2 We explore the historical confluence of factors that facilitated and motivated the current wave of public-private partnerships between national governments and commercial New Space actors.

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Avishai Melamed @avishaimelamed.bsky.social · 15/04/2024

Check out my new article, "Going to outer space with new space: The rise and consequences of evolving public-private partnerships," in Space Policy with Adi Rao, Olaf Willner, and Sarah Kreps! Share links: authors.elsevier.com/a/1ivLLyUIsx... doi.org/10.1016/j.sp...

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Avishai Melamed @avishaimelamed.bsky.social · 04/04/2024

Great to present my paper on satellites and conflict processes with Christopher Way at ISA 2024. Many thanks to the Technology and War panel!

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Avishai Melamed @avishaimelamed.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

polisky Call for abstracts for Cornell University's 2024 Reppy Peace and Conflict Studies Graduate Student Conference! einaudi.cornell.edu/programs/rep... Please share! Abstracts are due February 20th. Submit abstracts here: cornell.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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Graduate Student Conference

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Peace and Conflict Conference date: April 27, 2024 Deadline for abstract submission: February 20, 2024 Each yea

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Avishai Melamed @avishaimelamed.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

3) How have technologies been deployed in peace/conflict scenarios? How do specific technological artifacts or systems embody the politics of peace or conflict?

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Avishai Melamed @avishaimelamed.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

2) How have national/international legal structures been used to mediate conflicts and define peace?

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Avishai Melamed @avishaimelamed.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

Questions that we expect to be useful for developing abstracts for this conference include, but are not limited to: 1) How do law, technology, peace, and conflict intersect, both conceptually and in historical or contemporary contexts?

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Avishai Melamed @avishaimelamed.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

Topics should be related to the Reppy Institute’s interest in the problems of war and peace, arms control and disarmament, and instances of collective violence.

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Avishai Melamed @avishaimelamed.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

The conference encourages submission from graduate students from fields including, but not limited to, government, sociology, history, science and technology studies, anthropology, philosophy, law, and communications.

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Avishai Melamed @avishaimelamed.bsky.social · 06/02/2024

Call for abstracts for Cornell University's 2024 Reppy Peace and Conflict Studies Graduate Student Conference! einaudi.cornell.edu/programs/rep... Please share! Abstracts are due February 20th. Submit abstracts here: cornell.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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Graduate Student Conference

Interdisciplinary Approaches to Peace and Conflict Conference date: April 27, 2024 Deadline for abstract submission: February 20, 2024 Each yea

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Avishai Melamed @avishaimelamed.bsky.social · 27/11/2023

Thrilled to have worked with Adi Rao, Sarah Kreps, and Erika Palmer on this project!

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Avishai Melamed @avishaimelamed.bsky.social · 27/11/2023

We find that publics strongly oppose the use of nuclear explosives for planetary defense, desire a multilateral coalition to address threats, and prefer to act closer to discovery of a potential hazard. Changing any of these policy components predicts net-disapproval for the entire policy proposal

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Avishai Melamed @avishaimelamed.bsky.social · 27/11/2023

Our international survey experiment the roles of trust in authority, positive and negative externalities of policy implementation, and the methodology of mitigation policy shape willingness to invest into addressing long-term risks.

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Avishai Melamed @avishaimelamed.bsky.social · 27/11/2023

Check out my new article in Acta Astronautica, Popular Impact: Public Opinion and Planetary Defense Planning! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... We explore how different policy characteristics shape public support for risk mitigation against low-likelihood, high-consequence hazards.

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Avishai Melamed @avishaimelamed.bsky.social · 20/09/2023

Can I be added to the feed? thanks!

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