Why Trump’s belligerence is a sign of weakness.

The Program on International Relations and International Security (IRIS) at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs invites applications for its 2027–2028 Postdoctoral Fellowship in Internati...

Call for Papers – Orbis Journal of World Affairs Special Issue on "Power Transitions and Alliance Adaptation" About the Special Issue: Russia’s war against Ukraine has contributed to perceptions that...

Is Nicaragua Next? After the seizure of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in January 2026 and with the United States under the Trump administration blockading Cuba and demanding new leadership and e...

Podcast · UMass Boston Center for Peace, Democracy and Development (CPDD) · PaxGlobal Voices, the podcast of UMass Boston's Center for Peace, Democracy & Development (CPDD), highlights stories of peac...

During the 1980s, as global antiapartheid sentiment grew, an international coalition of far-right activists arose to preserve racial hierarchy in South Afric... | CUP

Cambridge Core - Political Economy - Power Over Progress

Cambridge Core - African Government, Politics and Policy - Protective Clubs

Emerging AI technologies are entangling with a crisis in democracy.

Artificial intelligence is reshaping global armed conflict, and Africa cannot afford to be on the margins. The continent is already experiencing the

Eleven years have passed since ISIS broadcasted a gruesome video on February 15th, 2015, of the beheading of 20 Copts and a Ghanaian on a beach in Libya. The men, who hail from villages in Upper Egypt...

For years, and increasingly in 2025, some foreign governments have tried to take away women’s agency to exercise FoRB. They speak of protection but legislate policies that restrict FoRB for women with...

U.S. allies and partners are taking steps toward a post-American nuclear order.

Abstract. Shifts in the global economic, political, and geostrategic landscape have prompted governments worldwide to reassess the role of foreign assistan

Cambridge Core - International Relations and International Organisations - Above the Law

In When Rebels Win, Kai M. Thaler explores why victorious rebel groups govern in strikingly different ways. Many assume civil wars destroy state capacity. In the Democratic Republic of Congo and Libya...

ICE, created in response to 9/11, meets most definitions of paramilitary forces. Critics worry it’s gone beyond its writ of immigration enforcement.

For decades now, Western development agencies and donors have been castigated for their colonial biases in providing aid to Africa. It is well established that donors provide considerably more foreig...

China gains from New Delhi’s support for South Asian autocrats.

Dr. Rubin is co-director of the GTDC Program, Assoc. Prof. in the School of International Affairs.

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Suparna Chaudhry joins guest host John McCaa to discuss what happened to the reputation of NGOs.

Revolutionary regimes may prove durable over time, yet they are often weak and militarily ineffective after victory. How do the circumstances of victory shape these weaknesses? Where old regime sec...

The fellowships will provide support for policy-relevant research on the prevention or mitigation of mass atrocities.

In light of the challenges brought about by a more complicated and consequential China, whose internal resources have become harder for foreign scholars and experts to access, RAND organized a large-s...

Sanford faculty member Bruce W. Jentleson has been appointed to serve a two-year term on the Committee on Conscience, which plays a key advisory role for the U.S. Holocau

Base Assumptions: The Complex Electoral Geography of Stateside US Military Installations

The recent wave of meetings between U.S. officials and allies in the Indo-Pacific have been studies in the duality of American diplomacy under President

A new executive order aims to strike back against “hostage diplomacy.”

Abstract. How do domestic factors influence US presidents’ decisions to lift sanctions? Drawing on work emphasizing the domestic costs related to leaders’