The great writer, activist, and scholar W.E.B. Du Bois saw his career unfold alongside the development of Legal Realism, an intellectual movement whose rapid ri

International Financial Institutions and the Promotion of Autocratic Resilience

Recent scholarship in international relations has shown that nonstate actors’ access to international institutions has expanded, including for victims of human rights abuse. Yet, although children ...

The United States continues to evade scrutiny as a place that actively represses, expels, and rules over subsets of its population. This oversight has foreclosed investigation into the empirical relat...

While each paper may be unique, the process of writing an academic paper is not (or does not have to be). In the hopes of helping to make the process more efficient and the final product more clear, c...

The Trump administration’s extraordinary lethal attack on this purported smuggling vessel raises significant potential legal issues.

Engaged scholarship is a cornerstone of IGCC’s mission. James Goldgeier, professor of international relations and former dean of the School of International Service at American University, is a leadin...

Can international organizations (IOs) boost support for their authority? We consider the effectiveness of appeals to the principle of complementarity, which holds that IOs only act when domestic insti...

Abstract. Who files petitions against repressive regimes in the United Nations? Victims of human rights abuse face high personal costs of participation, in

Trinkunas is awarded for his outstanding academic career and contributions to security and defense studies, such as civil-military relations, transnational organized crime, terrorism, and local orders...

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The Berkeley meeting of the nationwide Stand Up for Science event on March 7. Science is for everyone.