External sovereign debt restructurings: Delay and replay
Today, more than half of low-income countries eligible for relief under the Debt Service Suspension Initiative are either in debt distress or at high risk.
Research
Science and Technology for Humanity: An STS View from Singapore
With this short essay, we aim to raise awareness of the NTU Institute of Science and Technology for Humanity (NISTH) initiative and to invite our colleagues to partake in the research programs we hope
Civil Resistance: What Everyone Needs to Know
In Civil Resistance: What Everyone Needs to Know® , Erica Chenoweth – one of the world's leading scholars on the topic – explains what civil resistance is, how it works, why it sometimes fails, how vi
Written Testimony on the Importance of Judicial Diversity
The topic of judicial diversity is an important one, and it has only increased in public salience in the last decade.
Leading by Action: The Fierce Urgency for Diversity and Inclusion in the Foreign Policy Workforce
In November 2020, two retired colleagues from the State Department, Ambassadors Marc Grossman and Marcie Ries, and I published a comprehensive report advocating the adoption of major reforms to streng
Recommendations to the Biden Administration: On Regulating Disinformation and Other Harmful Content on Social Media
This white paper recommends a range of steps the Biden Administration should take to counter disinformation and other harmful content on major social media platforms.
Introductory Remarks
Welcome. My name is Kathryn Sikkink.
The Economic Costs of Pretrial Detention
Reducing pre-trial detention by eliminating cash bail would generate significant economic returns for accused individuals and likely also their families and communities, suggests a paper discussed at
To Critics of The Beautiful Tree, a Pearl of a Reply: Was that test on which the experiment depends taken in English or Telugu?
Nuggets of amber occasionally reward patient beachcombers who wade through miles of cold, gray clay on the southern shores of the Baltic Sea.
Pandemic Parent Survey Finds Perverse Pattern: Students Are More Likely to Be Attending School in Person Where Covid Is Spreading More Rapidly: Majority of students receiving fully remote instruction;
President Joe Biden has made reopening a majority of K-8 schools for in-person instruction a priority for his administration's first 100 days, with the goal of getting more American students safely ba
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