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Foster, Chase, and Kathleen Thelen. “Coordination Rights, Competition Law and Varieties of Capitalism.” Comparative Political Studies 58, no. 6 (2025): 1199–1237.

Lockwood, Sarah, and Evan Lieberman. “Politician Responses to Material Incentives for Participation in Surveys: Experimental Evidence from South Africa.” Research & Politics 11, no. 2 (2024).

Fravel, M. Taylor. "China’s Global Security Initiative at two: A journey, not a destination." China Leadership Monitor 80 (2024).

Fravel, M. Taylor, George J. Gilboy, and Eric Heginbotham. "Estimating China’s Defense Spending: How to Get It Wrong (and Right)." Texas National Security Review 7, no. 3 (2024): 40-54.

Rethinking Cyber Warfare: The International Relations of Digital Disruption

Oxford University Press

Rethinking Cyber Warfare: The International Relations of Digital Disruption

Grinberg, Mariya. "Why Not Do More: Imposition and Economic Statecraft." In H-Diplo Policy Roundtable III-5, pp 15-17. ISSForum, 2025.

Routes to Reform: Education Politics in Latin America

Oxford University Press

Routes to Reform: Education Politics in Latin America

Ibsen, Christian Lyhne, and Kathleen Thelen. “Arrangers and Orchestrators: The Diverging Role of the State in Danish and German Vocational Education and Training.” Socio-Economic Review, 2024.

Harris, Benjamin Norwood, and Erik Lin-Greenberg. "Cheap Tweets?: Crisis Signaling in the Age of Twitter." International Studies Quarterly 68, no. 2 (2024)

Komisarchik, Mayya, and Ariel White. “Throwing Away the Umbrella: Minority Voting after the Supreme Court’s Shelby Decision.” Quarterly Journal of Political Science 20, no. 2 (2024): 269–305.