Lynching and Local Justice: Legitimacy and Accountability in Weak States
What are the social and political consequences of poor state governance and low state legitimacy?
Research
After Oil: U.S.-China Split Will Hurt Clean Energy
Testimony before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission: Year in Review
Testimony focuses on the questions below. 1. What is the current state of the social contract between the CCP and the Chinese populace?
Rethinking U.S. National Security after COVID19
This journal article considers whether the Department of Defense and the US more generally should redefine "national security" in view of the emerging health and environmental threats.
What Explains the Resilience of Chinese Communist Party Rule?
The outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan deepened the impact of an already-slowing Chinese economy, and raised questions about the durability of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) rule.
Lynching and Local Justice
What are the social and political consequences of poor state governance and low state legitimacy?
Beyond 9/11: Homeland Security for the Twenty-First Century
For Americans, the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, crystallized the notion of homeland security. But what does it mean to “secure the homeland” in the twenty-first century?
Rolling the Dice in the Corridors of Power: William Nordhaus’s Impacts on Climate Change Policy
The seminal contributions of William Nordhaus to scholarship on the long-run macroeconomics of global climate change are clear.
Review Essay: The Prince
Understanding CCP Resilience: Surveying Chinese Public Opinion Through Time
This policy brief reviews the findings of the longest-running independent effort to track Chinese citizen satisfaction of government performance.
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