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Charnysh, Volha, and Sascha Riaz. “After the Genocide: Proximity to Victims and Support for Punishing Ingroup Crimes.” Comparative Political Studies, 2023.

Europe’s Evolving Role in US Grand Strategy Indispensable or Insufferable?

Europe’s Evolving Role in US Grand Strategy Indispensable or Insufferable?

China's Gambit: The Calculus of Coercion

Cambridge University Press

China's Gambit: The Calculus of Coercion

Han, Zhen, and Mihaela Papa. “Leadership and Performance in Informal Institutions: The Internal Dynamics of BRICS.” Contemporary Politics 30, no. 1 (2024): 87–107.

Zhu, Tingxuan. “Give but also take: China’s Covid-19 vaccine aid.” MIT Center for International Studies, precis (Fall 2023/Winter 2024: 13-17, 23).

Hassan, Mai, and Ahmed Kodouda. “Dismantling Old or Forging New Clientelistic Ties? Sudan’s Civil Service Reform after Uprising.” World Development 169 (2023): 106-232.

The Rise and Fall of the East: How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success, and Why They Might Lead to Its Decline

Yale University Press

The Rise and Fall of the East: How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success, and Why They Might Lead to Its Decline

At the Pivot of East and West: Ethnographic, Literary, and Filmic Arts

Duke University Press

At the Pivot of East and West: Ethnographic, Literary, and Filmic Arts

Tabaar, Mohammad Ayatollahi, Reyko Huang, Kanchan Chandra, Evgeny Finkel, Richard A Nielsen, Mara Redlich Revkin, Manuel Vogt, and Elisabeth Jean Wood. “How Religious Are ‘Religious’ Conflicts?” International Studies Review 25, no. 3 (2023).

Cummings, Peter M. M, Alejandra Mizala, and Ben Ross Schneider. “Chile’s Inclusion Law: The Arduous Drive to Regulate an Unequal Education System, 2006-19.” Educational Review (Birmingham) 77, no. 3 (2025): 764–89.