Times of strain often lead to explosions of religiosity, as people turn to faith as a balm against misfortune. The coronavirus pandemic,…
On 7 November 2020, moments before Kamala Harris and Joe Biden began their victory speeches, giant screens flanking the stage proclaimed, “…
In this paper, I respond to the editors request that I look back on the concept of soft power that I first published in 1990. I describe my…
What are the consequences of women dying in combat? We study how women fighting on the frontlines of the military affects public attitudes…
What are the social and political consequences of poor state governance and low state legitimacy? Under what conditions does lynching –…
By the time of his assassination in 1963, John F. Kennedy stood at the helm of the greatest power the world had ever seen, a booming…
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This month, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan reconsecrated the Hagia Sophia — a UNESCO world heritage site and museum — as a house of…
The seminal contributions of William Nordhaus to scholarship on the long-run macroeconomics of global climate change are clear. Much more…
The Cold War dominated world affairs during the half century following World War II. America prevailed, but only after fifty years of grim…