The Department of Political Science invites applications for a tenure-track position in Comparative Politics at the rank of Assistant Professor beginning as early as Fall 2027. This position is pendin...

A virtual workshop where graduate students, postdocs, and junior faculty present quantitative research on conflict processes and international security.

Mobile money platforms are ubiquitous in many emerging economies. Hailed for raising financial inclusion and economic wellbeing, governments have now …

In the context of the current US and Israeli wars on Iran (and Lebanon) and during what appears to be the eclipse of US primacy, we brought together a group of scholars with expertise on the “weak” st...

We formulate factorial difference-in-differences (FDID), a research design that extends canonical difference-in-differences (DID) to settings in which an event affects all units. In many panel data...

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Subnational administrative units are fundamental to territorial states and their political topography, but we know little about how their borders are designed. ...

Co-organized by Allison Hartnett, Assistant Professor of Political Science; and Jeffery A. Jenkins, Provost Professor of Public Policy, Political Science, and Law University of Southern California Oc...

A cut-out-and-keep guide of benchmarks for the 2026 council elections

The highly globalised UAE has felt the impact of conflict more than insular Saudi Arabia

The highly globalised UAE has felt the impact of conflict more than insular Saudi Arabia

Abstract. Loyalty shifts within state security forces critically impact dissent campaign outcomes and have frequently precipitated regime breakdowns. Exist

The Association for Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Studies (AGAPS) is proud to announce a call for applications to its 2026 graduate student workshop, to take place on the weekend of July 25- 26* via Zoom...

This week we feature new Arab public opinion surveys, a new issue of Middle East Report, and some of the latest research from the MENA Academy. I was traveling all last week, so the Middle East Politi...

The closing date for applications is 23.59 on 22nd February 2026

In my previous posts, I wrote about the context, early geography, and the buildup of this protest wave. This essay shifts focus to a different but urgent question that has emerged after the massacre: ...

6:30pm Wed 21 Jan | Steffen Hertog | Ticket Required | Free public event at LSE

Many of the troops and ships once at the president’s disposal have shifted to the Caribbean.

How Police Behavior Shapes Perceptions of Protests: Evidence from Black Lives Matter - Volume 23 Issue 4

Rana B. Khoury, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign [1]   For more than a decade, most Syrian refugees have not reached a “durable solution” to their displacement: neither resettlement in a third ...

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