Even with superb leadership, the federal government’s home-building programs are unworkable in a country as vast and varied as the United…
It is no surprise that after a generation of political scientists was trained to ignore religion (as we argued in part I of this article),…
"Cut!" "Keep!" "Abolish!" "Preserve!" Such is what passes for political discourse these days. The noise and nastiness building toward the…
As PhD students in political science at Harvard some twenty years ago, two of us (Shah and Philpott) had to take an introductory course on…
By now just about everybody agrees that the European bailout of Greece has failed (see for example Darvas et al. 2011). The debt will have…
The diffusion of enrichment and reprocessing (E&R) technologies can increase the risk of the
proliferation of nuclear weapons in…
Accountability has become a buzzword in international development. Development actors appear to delight in announcing their intention to…
When one state is preponderant in power resources, observers often refer to the situation as hegemonic. Today, many pundits argue that…
Since President Obama's dramatic announcement that America had successfully found and dispatched Osama bin Laden, we have been awash in…
WE ALL have a local bias. We root for the Patriots, invite our neighbors for dinner, and, if we invest, we bet on US companies. Public…